The photo above demonstrates healthy masculinity despite the fact the he gets killed afterward. Before the genocide became known, even Ghandi said that Hitler wasn't such a bad person.
It's true the photo demonstrates healthy masculinity. I'm not taking issue with the image. But I am curious about the tendency to revere people in defeat, other than for their patriotism. You could, for example, put up an image of Ulysses that also demonstrates healthy masculinity. So why revere the guy who lost the war, rather than the guy who won the war? I think this is under-studied.
True, though it depends who we are talking about. Those on the Left considered fascism scary as soon as it emerged in Italy in the 1920s. Socialists in Italy considered Mussolini a new kind of para-military union-busting bad guy. And many people, on the left and in the center, when to Spain in 1936-1938 to fight against Franco. But I agree with you, the American public didn't have a general fear of fascism until America was drawn into the war.
The photo above demonstrates healthy masculinity despite the fact the he gets killed afterward. Before the genocide became known, even Ghandi said that Hitler wasn't such a bad person.
It's true the photo demonstrates healthy masculinity. I'm not taking issue with the image. But I am curious about the tendency to revere people in defeat, other than for their patriotism. You could, for example, put up an image of Ulysses that also demonstrates healthy masculinity. So why revere the guy who lost the war, rather than the guy who won the war? I think this is under-studied.
Fascism wasn’t considered scary until World War II:
https://www.city-journal.org/article/when-fasces-arent-fascist
True, though it depends who we are talking about. Those on the Left considered fascism scary as soon as it emerged in Italy in the 1920s. Socialists in Italy considered Mussolini a new kind of para-military union-busting bad guy. And many people, on the left and in the center, when to Spain in 1936-1938 to fight against Franco. But I agree with you, the American public didn't have a general fear of fascism until America was drawn into the war.