• @jj4211
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    18 days ago

    The full poll data: https://d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/Views_on_Hitler_poll_results.pdf

    Do you think of Adolf Hitler as. . . ?

    • A completely good person: 1%
    • A good person who did some bad things: 4%
    • An equally good and bad person: 7%
    • A bad person who did some good things: 12%
    • A completely bad person : 65%
    • Not sure : 12%

    So 12% felt he was at least as good as he was bad, 12% fell into the 'well, even a horrible person can do something right, and 12% were somehow not sure…

    • monsterpiece42
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      818 days ago

      This is interesting, thank you for sharing.

      I personally would tally this up as “12%” rather than “24%”.

      Or at least in my opinion, option “D” (bad person that did some good things) is most likely the closest to an objective answer and “E” (completely bad) is a totally acceptable summary. But both D and E both summarize Hitler as bad. The people summarizing him as “balanced” or “good” totaled to 12%.

      To be clear, this is still horrific imo.

      • @Resand
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        417 days ago

        and 12% not sure aka couldn’t really make up their mind if Hitler was bad or not… so ads up to 24%

        • monsterpiece42
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          317 days ago

          That’s fair, but we don’t know why they said they weren’t sure. Could be educational issues, memory issues, etc.

          Not a good look either way. Wild to me that number is so high.

    • @blazeknave
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      217 days ago

      I mean … 35% think he’s not all bad. That’s more than 1 in 5 (20%)

      • @jj4211
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        117 days ago

        I feel like “equally bad and good” certainly also deserves that label in this case.