FACT: Hitler did good things, but he did them in order to gain power so he could do bad things.

If person helps someone change their tire is a parking lot (a good thing) and goes into the store and robs it (a bad thing) does that make the helping the person change the tire no longer a good thing?

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I've never expressed warm approval or admiration of Hitler. Prove me wrong.

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I’m not gaslighting. That is what you did.

I did not say that saying Hitler 'did good things' was 'an endorsement of everything he ever did or said' just that the OP praises Hitler, which it does. Actually it is a couple of others here who have explicitly noted that this sounds worryingly like an endorsement, or even a justification. It certainly is disrespectful of the millions who died. The fact that the Beancrisp deleted two replies perhaps shows his own confliction.

By simply saying that he approves of Hitler..

Which is all I did. And which is, in terms of some of the things Adolf did, strictly, true. One problem of course is that Beancrisp does not list any of the 'good' so how does one know what he has in mind?

you are the one that is gaslighting, and making him seem like a racist

The question is whether one can approve of a mass murderer and yet condemn him at the same time, it is a thin line to walk. In the context of a strongly right-wing message board, one has to be careful. Many here seem in favour of racial supremacy and racism, and for all we know Beancrisp may approve of much which falls short of genocide. And one wonders why anyone would want to consider 'good things' Hitler did supposedly at all, especially if the natural implication could be that the good partially offsets the worst. Otherwise, as another asked here: "what is he trying to say?". The OP was careless at least, offensive at most.

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