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It's top of the HN front page, it's not getting downvoted. In fact you can’t downvote a submission.

Nobody is like, "Oh no! This baddie i just killed could be a Stolperstein in the future". Remembrance is one thing, self-reflection is another.

People will genocide their enemies and be like, "Thank god we aren't like the Nazis", or worse, "Trust us the guy we just killed was a Nazi".

None of this helps with moral reasoning.

It hasn't even been 100 years and already it is relatively easy to find people who are genuinely and openly sympathetic to the Nazis

Even people who continue to stand by their racist statement that there are "very fine people on both sides", and continue to have the fanatical support of the majority of the Republican party.

And ironically this is becoming more common in those countries who pride themselves of eradicating Naziism in WW2.