That’s fair.
Even then, I wouldn’t have any sympathy for him. Like you said, he COULD have been an ally, he COULD have done something to make future generations not feel the shame he felt, but he didn’t. He clung to fame and fortune and inflicted even more suffering on many types of people.
If anything, it would make me respect and sympathize even less than I already do.
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DrFistington@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Yeah, kind of how Hitler was Jewish, but decided that it was better to live in denial and destroy everyone else like him.
TheRealKuni@piefed.social 18 hours ago
New genetic analysis has shown that Hitler had no Jewish ancestry.
He did however have Kallmann Syndrome, a genetic sexual disorder characterized by an incomplete puberty, as well as genetic markers making him more likely than the general population to have had autism, schizophrenia, and/or bipolar disorder.
MotoAsh@piefed.social 17 hours ago
Being a Jew isn’t about genetics. It’s a fucking religion first and foremost. Do you think Hitler really cared about lineage when he was clearing out Jewish homes?
TheRealKuni@piefed.social 13 hours ago
Oh, well in that case, Hitler still wasn’t Jewish. He was raised Catholic. Later described himself as “not a Catholic and not a Protestant, but a German Christian.”
So how do you interpret someone saying “Kind of how Hitler was Jewish”? Seeing as how he wasn’t part of the religion, and given how “Jewish” is both a religion and an ethnicity? Because I interpret that as someone saying he’s part of the ethnicity, which was long rumored, and which was very recently shown not to be the case.
Yes? Eugenics was a big part of Nazi ideology.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Yes, and no.
Obviously, someone with no Jewish lineage could convert and they won’t start developing the generic traits of a Jew, but from what I understand, even they themselves consider themselves a different lineage than gentiles.
Not unlike how people say they are Italian or Irish, even if they’ve never been to Europe.