> Hitler was quite the orator. Had you been there, you'd have been cheering.

Please don't make Hacker News miserably worse by posting things like this.

Could you clarify? I don't understand the extreme reaction.

I was responding to this: "hold both views simultaneously: to respect someone and consider him/her an extremist loon who is out of touch with reality"

I gave an example of someone generally considered to be an extremist loon, yet obviously (he did in fact gain power) with unusual skill.

Is it just that people are uncomfortable with the idea that his supporters were normal regular supposedly civilized people, and how this implies something about most of us?

Speak for yourself; I would have been shot or gassed. Even if I hadn't been Jewish, I would have found his xenophobic, warmongering views repulsive.

Please don't make threads like this even worse by responding to trolls.

You are right. I cannot delete my comments now, and they don't add anything to this discussion. Can you delete them? Thanks.

We'll delete the ones that don't have any replies.