Japanese politician and commentator Hiroyuki Seto called this week for people to "gather on the day of the birth of the great and excellent supreme leader" Adolf Hitler.
Unsatisfied with the usual right wing batshittery – such as denying the Nanjing Massacre, or claiming the use of sex slaves was widespread – Seto decided to issue a public call for people to gather "to drink wine and chat" about what an upstanding fellow that Adolf Hitler was, and celebrate the fuhrer's 125th birthday.
Seto, former vice president of the nationalist "Restoration Political Party・New Wind" and failed Diet Councillor candidate, is well known for making outrageous statements, including promoting the abolition of immigration into Japan (not the best idea for a country with a shrinking population), advocating against parliamentary democracy, and denying the Holocaust.
After he was criticised for, you know, calling on people to celebrate Hitler's birthday, Seto doubled down on the crazy:
I don’t know what’s wrong with agreeing with Hitler. Is it the holocaust of six million Jews? Are there still people who believe that happened? That’s a lie. It’s the same fabrication of history as the Rape of Nanking and the forced comfort women.
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