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Fact this gets any praise. Makes me ask if Hiter was a great painter


Would people say "Hey Sure he killed million of Jew. But damn just look at those paint stokes. Sure its a little Jewish girl being burned alive. But just look at the vibrant color."

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Aesthetic praise should not suggest moral justification.

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A great point that way too many people overlook.

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The trivia pg. explains the landmark techniques that DWG used. The birth of modern movie making. However it sure is an ugly pro-KKK racist historical inaccuracy. Those were the days as reflected on the trivia pg. WW, NAACP and DWG's disappointment at the criticism and his reaction> "Intolerance".

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As assmad as it makes your liberal self, not everyone who the media tells you is evil is evil. Some of those people merely opposed your beloved government's agenda, thus they were written as "bad guys".

Sometimes, the real bad guy is the one in power. After all, why would he suffer others telling him off? Just think, buddy.

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A good example is the media trying to paint almost anyone from the Middle East or of Middle Eastern lineage to be suspicious and sinister.

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If I were rich I would totally buy a painting made by Adolf Hitler, if such a thing were possible.

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There's a 2002 movie called Max along those very lines

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Well, consider the controversial persona that was and is Roman Polanski.

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