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0 pointsmcv3y ago0 comments

It's not like someone is building a highway and I'm saying "just like Hitler!". This is erasing recently disgraced people from photos in order to misrepresent facts.

Although I suppose we could also say "just like Vogue!" (or whichever fashion magazine is most guilty of photoshopping people).

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AstixAndBelix3y ago

>This is erasing recently disgraced people from photos in order to misrepresent facts.

Which has been done since forever. People in the past didn't erase others only after they were long gone. Someone could quickly fall out of favor and have many of his depiction and documents already altered in a single year.

mcvOP3y ago

I don't think it's something that has always been universally common. Erasing people like that is something that mostly the Soviet Union was known for. And possibly China or other dictatorships, but it's something you mostly see in propaganda from dictatorships. It's quite unusual to see it from the UK.

AstixAndBelix3y ago

My problem is with people using nazis and communists for cheap rethoric effect towards people who don't know history and eat it all up. If you knew that people have been erased since the time of the babylonians you wouldn't immediately compared what's happened to nazi Germany.

It's bad that he got deleted from the photo, but that's not indicative of any particular 20th century dictatorship

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mcphage3y ago

> This is erasing recently disgraced people from photos in order to misrepresent facts.

Hitler did do that, but it's not the most notable thing that he did.

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0 pointsmcv3y ago0 comments

It's not like someone is building a highway and I'm saying "just like Hitler!". This is erasing recently disgraced people from photos in order to misrepresent facts.

Although I suppose we could also say "just like Vogue!" (or whichever fashion magazine is most guilty of photoshopping people).

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AstixAndBelix3y ago

>This is erasing recently disgraced people from photos in order to misrepresent facts.

mcvOP3y ago

AstixAndBelix3y ago

It's bad that he got deleted from the photo, but that's not indicative of any particular 20th century dictatorship

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mcphage3y ago

> This is erasing recently disgraced people from photos in order to misrepresent facts.

Hitler did do that, but it's not the most notable thing that he did.

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