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Anyone else get unreasonably annoyed that literally everyone's point of reference for everything is WWII? Every authoritarian movement is 1930s fascism, bad leaders are Hitler, the use of "concentration camps" for places where nobody is being killed, etc.

I find it especially irksome when I agree with the person making the argument!

What was the standard reference before WWII?

Like 6 December at 17:14 | Open on mastodon.social

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Zach Weinersmith

Like, history is big and rich! The only other reference I see regularly is some very vague notion that the Roman Empire was big and then fell later.

6 December at 17:14 | Open on mastodon.social

@ZachWeinersmith Totally agree. /r/AskHistorians had a great thread on this exact question: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/gfhk18/nowadays_hitler_is_widely_regarded_as_the_most/

P.S. loved City on Mars

6 December at 17:15 | Open on defcon.social

May Likes Toronto

@ZachWeinersmith You expect us to know history? Everyone knows history is just a bit of WWI and a whole lot of WWII.

/s

6 December at 17:16 | Open on mstdn.ca

St Paul Zamboni Confiscator

@ZachWeinersmith Didn't concentration camps come in with the Boer War?

6 December at 17:15 | Open on tech.lgbt

@ZachWeinersmith I’m guessing WW1 or the Civil War?

6 December at 17:16 | Open on retro.pizza

@ZachWeinersmith

Tell George Takei he didn't grow up in a concentration camp. They are not synonymous with death camps.

6 December at 17:17 | Open on mstdn.games