The problem with aesthetics being the dominant value is that, for some people, aesthetics implies cruelty.
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well I don't entirely follow but im skeptical of viewing the Holocaust as a primarily aesthetic exercise
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Hitler was obsessed with aesthetics, and it required rooting out what he deemed as unsavory
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Right. He had something to prove. And he wanted that proof to be his "glorious and aesthetic" 1000 year Reich
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Except that extremely normal versions of this erupt into garden variety cruelty all the time.
See: homophobia, classism, caste violence etc. rooted in the supposedly "unclean" nature of the victims.
Even your critique is aesthetic ("yikes, weird!")
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