Anything’s justifiable as long as it’s done while resisting “socialism.”

So WWII is about the USSR being the Real Villain, and Germany the bold individualists. Nazi anti-Semitism is about pushing back against internationalist leftist Jews.

A few years later, apartheid is all about Scary Blacks Who Want Collectivism…a sentiment that stretched beyond kooks and dropped from the mouths of people like Thatcher.

This is why we’ve ended up with a current generation of apologists for Pinochet and Franco (and who’ve never heard of Suharto).