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That's a terrible name. The man committed genocide and numerous other crimes against humanity. Using that legacy to try and get a laugh is horrible.

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> The man committed genocide and numerous other crimes against humanity.

the amerikan founding fathers have committed acts of genocide (and numerous other crimes) against Native Americans and Africans and yet someone decided it would be a good idea to print them on dollar bills

Since when has losing an arm justified losing a leg?

Well, that is not the point though. He is just pointing out the hypocrisy.

Then I guess I missed something. It seemed like they were downplaying genocide because people who committed it are printed on dollar bills.

I think the negative reaction with has to do with his overly aggressive mustache, not so much the intentional murder of 30-40 million. Not that numbers, scale, proportion, context, or substance should matter to this crowd.

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