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[–] MasivGam3 ago 

Well. As you yourself said, Communists killed "just as many", but actually many more people than Nazis. And Communists always have been singing songs about brotherhood, liberty, equality, happiness (while equally calling for "uprooting" of all opposition - they did not see contradiction there). And they did not have "Mein Kampf". They had Marx, Engels, Lenin, all that bunch, with their mega-volumes of pseudo-scientific theory. And the were building the Worker's Paradise, you know. Which kind of takes away even more plausibility of your claim that "Mein Kampf" somehow led to genocide. Not only was is worth to doubt that there is a direct cause and effect link between the two to begin with, but we see that regimes can act in direct opposite to what they claim they are standing for.

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[–] the_sovereign ago 

No, my claim doesn't lose any plausibility. It just means that Communists were evil too. You haven't made any actual effort to dispute my claim that Mein Kampf led to genocide. You're just deflecting.

It's pretty simple. Hitler published a book with all of his ideas. Hitler gets elected. Hitler and his supporters begin systematic genocide. Where is the flaw in my logic?

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[–] MasivGam3 ago  (edited ago)

You haven't made any actual effort to dispute my claim that Mein Kampf led to genocide. You're just deflecting.

You haven't staked a valid claim. Your "claim" was just a statement without any proof. You tried to prove it with quotes from the book and I demonstrated to you how your assumptions are based on misinterpretation or far fetched assumptions.

Where is the flaw in my logic?

The fundamental flaw with your logic is that you claim there to be cause-and-effect relationship between publishing the book and the systemic genocide.

While "Mein Kampf" definitely did not prevent genocide from happening, it in itself was very tame and ordinary book, it did not call for genocide of anyone, and there is no reason to believe that it was in any way a critical factor that lead to the eventual genocide.

Your original claim was that "Mein Kampf", the book, "led to genocide". Come on! Seriously... This is just ridiculous.