How Can You Defend Him?

A couple of unsettling events prompt me to write this.

One of those events is people defending – and admitting to liking – a man named Adolf Hitler.

If I could spit his name in writing, I would. I loathe the man responsible for killing six million Jews, who was the centre of a World freaking War, who turned many surviving Jews atheist. Imagine a man being so cruel that you lose your belief in God – in the idea that there can be good in the world.

No, being a good speaker is not a redeeming quality, goddammit! Go back and read what I wrote about legitimacy.

See, Indians wouldn't have tolerated mention of that man if it were Hindus – or heck, simply other Indians – he was targeting. We still feel sour about the British Raj, so my imagination is not far-fetched.

So this is my response to whoever dares defend him to me. Fine, he was a good speaker. But good speaker does not equate to good person, not if his speeches moved crowds to commit genocide – because that is exactly what your defendant did. And when there exist firsthand accounts of those such as Walter Lewin, Zlata Zilipovic, and Anne Frank, it says something very unflattering about a person who defends rather than condemns the man who was the cause of grief and lives lost.

Remember the uproar when the Congress demanded evidence of the Uri surgical strikes, or even the recent Balakot airstrike? That is the uproar that the rest of the world (and I) goes into when that name is mentioned.

That is all I can say before getting off my soapbox.