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 * Writing this here since it's going to be long.


 * No problem. A couple of good-faith questions here, none of which you need to answer. You've been very open about living with Asperger's. Do you see a mental health professional/follow some sort of CBT course to help you deal with situations where a misreading/radical overthinking of a gesture/message/social cue ends up in anger/conflict? Also, you're German? Russian? American of more recent Euro descent? While I understand that you're interested in Nazi history and anti-neo-Nazi activism for good cause, it's pretty clear you take this particular history (the Eastern Front, plus the Shoah) pretty personally. There's nothing wrong with that, but one can do better work when one is a little more objective. Homicide detectives wouldn't last very long, or be very good at their jobs, if they had a visceral personal hatred for murderers. Historians of difficult and recent histories can't go around seething all the time. It's no good for the soul. (Nobody gets too worked up studying the history of Genghis Khan, and, as much as it might pain you to realize it, in 1000 years, people probably won't have existential crises studying the Holocaust.The bus came by/and I got on.silverbrain.png:32, 16 July 2013 (UTC)


 * To start, I feel bad about the fact that you suggested something nice and I blew up. Moving on, I'll give a start to this, because some of the latter questions are quite complex.  I haven't been involved in any Autism related programs for years because I haven't needed to.  I'm also not sure to what extent I still qualify for the diagnosis.  I've read about small numbers of people who "grow out of it" if you want to think of it that way.  I don't have these same sorts of problems in the physical world, probably because of the fact that I can see people face to face.  That ability to understand small social subtleties is a reason why I question whether it's still accurate to classify myself as Autistic.


 * I realize that studying a historical subject needs to be done objectively, and shouldn't have a lot of emotion impairing it. As long as I work in a historiographic mindset, I can be pretty objective and not worry too much about emotion.  I'm not saying it's 100% gone, but working with a historical mindset helps.


 * It's interesting that you mention homicide detectives in this situation. On blog.sashaweb.net, I have a few of my stories.  The character Kevin is based on one of my friends who had a burning desire to see all serial killers eradicated based on his massive pedestalization of women.  He also wanted to become a homicide detective to help put them away.  I tried pointing out to him that it wouldn't be a good thing to be doing with his level of emotion.  Plus odds were that he'd lose the passion once he met a girlfriend.


 * Point is, I realize that it's not good to be working on something too emotional. I can point to issues that I've had recently with studying the Nazis.  Being able to detach from it to focus on a historical perspective helps.


 * I'm American, but where that's not specific, I'm mostly eastern European. I've heard that at least to some people it's obvious, but it's not intense.  There does seem to be a lot of atheist Ashkenazi people that I grew up with.  I don't really have any personal connection with the Nazis though.  That's also an advantage since I can't be written off as emotional or too closely connected the way a Jewish person could.


 * I'm really not that upset at the idea that people probably won't have existential crises over the Holocaust in 1,000 years, provided it's for the right reasons. I think that it's possible that the war and the Holocaust still might have profound effects on people for that long for various reasons, because of the scale and the fact that it was the first time that a developed nation did anything like that.  I also suspect that many of the people encouraging Holocaust education now would be responsible for such a view, because of how they go about it.  Right now we almost give the Nazis some sort of mythical status, while at the same time there are people trying to humanize them.  I'm also more concerned with the near future or big picture thinking.  My goal is party to debunk myths associated with the gamer pseudo Nazi fetishist types who try to glorify and romanticize the Nazi military.  There's also the crowd that thinks that it would be a good idea to recreate the Second Reich because of how progressive it was.  While it was very successful and the success should be emulated, the nationalism that led to the formation of the Second Reich led to the Holocaust.  Plus the Third Reich was a revival of the second after it collapsed, and that did lead straight to the Holocaust.  That said, most of the people with an admiration of the Second Reich who aren't German Neo Nazis are probably pathetic losers with social and sex lives on par with Enlightenment Liberal.  Holocaust education is a conflicted subject for me.  In a lot of ways, I want to say that we should drop it completely from popular culture because we're commercializing it.  At the same time, there's a lot of very significant things that people are ignorant of that lead to pro Nazi and Nazi sympathetic conclusions.

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According to Feminists, women are more likely to be raped in college than during the liberation of eastern Germany by the Red Army. Feminists claim that 1 in 3 women in college have been raped, while only 1 in 5 women in eastern Germany was raped during one of the largest mass rapes in history. Such exaggeration has the effect of degrading the perceived trauma of rape to the public, in the same way as does comparing one's experience in a traffic jam to that of Holocaust victims in concentration camps, or the Republican tactic of comparing Obama to Hitler.