Rockford's Love Child
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Hitler was an authoritarian leader who imprisoned and murdered homesexuals, removed the rights of women and had no respect for either the rule of law or basic human rights. In these respects he had much in common with authoritarian leaders in the world today, so rather than my comparison being absurd perhaps your knowledge of history is deficient.The point is that what’s morally unacceptable to some societies is morally acceptable to others. To conflate that notion with attitudes towards the likes of Hitler isn’t just absurd, it’s an unexpectedly premature invocation of Godwin’s Law!
Try Putin if you want a contemporary analogy. I presume you would be perfectly happy for this World Cup to be staged in Moscow ? My point was that just as we pass judgement on repressive regimes in Europe, we should do the same to those elsewhere.
The behaviour of the Iranian footballers today and Iranian women in recent months suggests that far from being 'morally acceptable', the actions of authoritarian regimes are often resisted by their own populations. You seem to equate the values of an entire society with repressive laws imposed from above by a hated regime.
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