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Evil is a pretty strong word to toss around like that. The Nazis were evil. How is the West evil?

Western countries do a number of bad things, but they're not evil.

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>"How is the West evil?"

Killing millions of people after WWII for sure qualifies. What else would you call it?

Huh? Explain

What do you need explained?

Have you forgotten all the wars the US put themselves into over and over again, often based on lies?

Have you forgotten what the CIA did, and still does, to countries all over the world?

Drone assassination programs are pretty evil.

Oh wait, did you mean evil to us, or evil to everybody else?

The parent asserted that Nazis are evil. While I'm sure there is a range of behaviors that constitute "evil" I don't think a drone assassination campaign in any way compares to the deliberate and systematic attempt to remove all members of certain groups (i.e. Jewish people, among others) from Earth.

And that parent was using Nazis to disclaim the US as evil. The US doesn't just get off the hook because they haven't resorted to genocide.

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