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I don't even know why I made Starlight Glimmer fanart, I actually kinda hate this character. I also hate how so many historically-challenged MLP fans mistakenly compare her to Adolf Hitler even though she's clearly more of a Joseph Stalin or Mao Zedong. I see that all over the place, people mislabeling Communism as Nazism, it's a pet peeve of mine. Why? Well, because it's jarringly inaccurate. It's like some blockhead in American Revolutionary War garb participating in a Civil War reenactment, not because he's a troll but because he really is that stupid. Or people who lump Medieval, Renaissance, and instrumental Disney cover music into the "Classical" category simply because it's old or was played upon something with keys, not realizing Classical music refers specifically to music made during the Classical period.

Starlight Glimmer isn't a Nazi. The National Socialist party, as far as I'm aware, had no qualms with the class system. They believed different classes separated on the basis of income, education and career would always be a thing. They also believed classism (prejudice against or in favor of people belonging to a particular social class) could not be avoided entirely, but they tried to take the edge off in the way of welfare, finding various ways to make the classes interact with each other more, and ennobling the concept of manual labor to hopefully get rich people and poor people off each others throats.

They did this so Communist groups would have a harder time getting a foothold in German society, since the Bolsheviks' modus operandi was agitating the working class against the bourgeoisie, then setting themselves up as the new ruling class after the ensuing revolution. It was the Communists who wanted to flatten the playing field and eliminate class, not the Nazis. Come on, do you honestly think the Nazis weren't in favor of hierarchy? Honestly. Think hard now. Think really, really hard. Not every authoritarian regime runs on a National Socialist model, Starlight Glimmer and her old posse should more accurately be compared to Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge rather than Hitler and the National Socialist Party.

TL;DR Nazism and Communism are not interchangeable, please turn off the TV and read a history book.

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I don't even know why I made Starlight Glimmer fanart, I actually kinda hate this character. I also hate how so many historically-challenged MLP fans mistakenly compare her to Adolf Hitler even though she's clearly more of a Joseph Stalin or Mao Zedong. I see that all over the place, people mislabeling Communism as Nazism, it's a pet peeve of mine. Why? Well, because it's jarringly inaccurate. It's like some blockhead in American Revolutionary War garb participating in a Civil War reenactment, not because he's a troll but because he really is that stupid. Or people who lump Medieval, Renaissance, and instrumental Disney cover music into the "Classical" category simply because it's old or was played upon something with keys, not realizing Classical music refers specifically to music made during the Classical period.

Starlight Glimmer isn't a Nazi. The National Socialist party, as far as I'm aware, had no qualms with the class system. They believed different classes separated on the basis of income, education and career would always be a thing. They also believed classism (prejudice against or in favor of people belonging to a particular social class) could not be avoided entirely, but they tried to take the edge off in the way of welfare, finding various ways to make the classes interact with each other more, and ennobling the concept of manual labor to hopefully get rich people and poor people off each others throats.

They did this so Communist groups would have a harder time getting a foothold in German society, since the Bolsheviks' modus operandi was agitating the working class against the bourgeoisie, then setting themselves up as the new ruling class after the ensuing revolution. It was the Communists who wanted to flatten the playing field and eliminate class, not the Nazis. Come on, do you honestly think the Nazis weren't in favor of hierarchy? Honestly. Think hard now. Think really, really hard. Not every authoritarian regime runs on a National Socialist model, Starlight Glimmer and her old posse should more accurately be compared to Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge rather than Hitler and the National Socialist Party.

TL;DR Nazism and Communism are not interchangeable, please turn off the TV and read a history book.