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I'm very curious about what it is that you think the word "whitewash" means.
I googled it after reading your comment cause I realized I didn't actually know what it meant.
There were a few definitions but I'm guessing this is the one the person you're replying to meant:
"deliberately attempt to conceal unpleasant or incriminating facts about (someone or something)."
Idk why they thought someone calling out Nazis for spending resources on the Holocaust up until the very end meant that people are whitewashing Nazis though.
I think the comparison is, in the eyes of Blamemeta, between a thing that is very severe and a thing that is somewhat less severe. If that's the case, equating the two must either exaggerate the severity of the latter or minimize the severity of the former. So I think Blamemeta is trying to say that it cheapens the severity of the holocaust, not realizing that the word "whitewash" implies that it's deliberate, i.e. that Acharnien also agrees that Russia's law isn't a big deal and want to use it to downplay the holocaust. But I think it's more likely they just meant to say "cheapens" instead of "whitewash" lol
I am not equating though, I just wrote "this reminds me". They're being dramatic.
Making something seem not-as-bad. Nazis literally genocided 11 million people. Russia is being awful about medical care. Theres an ocean of difference.
-- Hey those kids are good at playing soccer very defensively. It kind of reminds me of when Greece got the 2004 Euro Cup under the management of Otto Rehhagel.
-- How dare you compare the two things. One was a major international professional soccer competition, that shaped a country's sports for a generation, the other one is just some shitty kids kicking a deflated ball in a school yard.
-- Well, yea, sure but they do both win by playing quite defensively. Noticing that takes nothing away from Greece's epic historic win, what kind of idiot would think that?