What are you on about?
In none of my statements did I suggest any of the above are ok. However comparing them as similar is out of line.
One order of magnitude difference in the numbers does not render the actions dissimilar. Since when do figures have to match precisely for two things to be similar?
In doing so you are suggesting a building being hit by an unguided bomb is the same as a families being executed because they are of a different 'race'. That is in my opinion quite delusional.
Why did that unguided bomb hit that building? Because someone flew a bomber over to the city that building was in, aimed their crosshairs over a populated area filled with such buildings, and pushed a button that dropped a stick of such bombs with the specific intent that these buildings be hit, blown up, and the people inside killed. And why were these people targeted? Because they were Germans.
Look, I deplore what the Waffen SS did in the instances where they committed war crimes. There's simply no question that these were heinous acts. But to allow WWII military unit names as Aces High squadron names, in all cases but the instance where someone calls theirs "Waffen SS", and then call for that player to be banned, is ludicrous.
Should I be banned if I create a squadron called Wehrmacht? That's the military organization that invaded Poland, France, Russia, and many others. And don't tell me no war crimes were committed by members of the Wehrmacht. And how about if I create a squadron called Luftwaffe? Or Kriegsmarine? For heaven's sake, German subs would torpedo ships and then observe survivors clinging to oily wreckage in the frigid water through the periscope, and then submerge and leave them to die. So should I be banned if I name a squad U-bootwaffe? What if I create an account and use the Doenitz? Or what if I call myself VonBraun, do I get banned because his V1 and V2 "Vergeltungswaffen" (which basically means retribution weapons) rained death and terror on London and environs?
As I said in my previous post, the entire subject of World War II is filled with horrible actions and horrible circumstances, and horrible deaths. To indulge in simulation of its combat with German and Japanese weaponry, allow German and Japanese unit names, etc. implies a level of comprehension of and exposure to the evil as well as the interesting (sometimes those overlap), virtuous, or otherwise noteworthy aspects of the subject. I do find it rather stupid that, in this way, we immerse ourselves in World War II and then freak out when someone mentions the Waffen SS.
ps: Should I be banned if I made a squad and called it 23rd ID, because it was elements of the 23rd Infantry Division which committed the My Lai massacre in Vietname?
