@ nimblewalker58, I think you know deep down that there is a certain subset of users here on the Politics board who aren't historians or even particularly well-versed in history, relying instead on daily news snippets or biased literature they happen to favor; while I am certainly not suggesting they are actively trying to stage an "activist" intervention, their contributions rarely lead to any kind of objective discussion.
MOST OF THE TIME, these discussions inevitably devolve over the years into nothing more than a gutter of insults, petty bickering, and the fabrication of scientific facts—not to mention the most distasteful thing of all: attempts to rewrite history in a truly grotesque fashion.
However, your recent comment really adds fuel to that fire:
where do we even begin listing all the execution sites of Americans during WWII—both from the Nazi regime and the partisans?
First and foremost, are you referring to the casualties caused by rogue military units that refused to accept unconditional surrender—much like their own Wehrmacht command—along with the civilians caught in their wake? No one died in those instances simply because they were American, Mexican, Ukrainian, or Muslim; they didn't die based on their identity. On the other hand, the Nazis
DID murder people solely
based on their ethnic or religious background, as well as targeting Americans who refused to support the Nazi regime.
Because of that distinction, you can't just cram all of that into a single sentence or topic and create such a reductive muddle.
Since
I believe that one should possess a foundational level of knowledge, and as a moderator, you really shouldn't be making such reckless statements, at the very least.
At the end of the day, this is a forum—an online debate, a place for entertainment or casual information exchange—and if you want this space to maintain any sense of seriousness or substance, statements like yours fly in the face of both scientific fact and basic logical frameworks.
That is why, in my opinion—which I have expressed several times since joining this forum—topics like events from World War II or its immediate aftermath, as well as various issues regarding the old Yugoslavia era, should simply be moved to the History sub-forum; I don't see the old Yugoslavian discussions as a solution either, but the History section should provide a much more serious and organized flow for these matters.
On the Politics board, aside from current political events and commentary, there really isn't a place for these types of topics anymore.
Partly because of the inherent nature of the Politics section, as I've mentioned, and partly due to specific users and their style of communication, things have simply gone too far; furthermore, leaving these topics on the Politics board directly aids those who, in real life, try to distract the public, cloud the truth, or whatever else you want to call the propaganda tactics used by political elites and media puppets to avoid addressing actual, pressing problems by resorting to the tried-and-true recipe of manufactured tension and pseudo-historical gymnastics.
