Julius Ceasar, Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan and many more…

These people had beliefs and worldviews that were so horribly, by today’s standards, that calling them fascist would be huge understatement. And they followed through by committing a lot of evil.

Aren’t we basically glorifying the Hitlers of centuries past?

I know, historians always say that one should not judge historical figures by contemporary moral standards. But there’s a difference between objectively studying history and actually glorifying these figures.

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    3 months ago

    Xro pulled out the “capitalism, Christian white supremacy, patriarchy, cis-heteronormativity” for this comment!

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      3 months ago

      Especially since their one example is Caesar, who lived in a time when basically everyone was gay!

      Edit: and about 1.5 thousand years before capitalism was invented