The only reason the "nazis weren't monsters" narrative is still alive and well is because we broadly didn't show them as humans who made stupid, horrible mistakes from the very beginning. We didn't drive home the point that your ignorance is still deserving of the harshest of consequences. We are too afraid of offending someone or making someone feel bad for being dumb that we have allowed ignorance to have as much value as virtue.

The only reason we have people being led astray by people like Trump and Kanye and his ilk right now is because we are all so scared to show moral complexity and human vulnerabilities that we painted nazis like cartoon bad-guys. Which some were, sure, just like there are cartoon bad guys right now pushing millions of otherwise normal, if not ignorant, people to support horrible ideas.

Why are we so afraid to show that letting yourself be led into horrible ideas can still earn you a hangman's noose or whatever the modern equivalent is?