North America is in fact nothing like the Third Reich. These truly incredible, bizarre claims require extraordinary evidence, not a supposed conversation with a random person. The random person's skin color doesn't make it any more or less likely.

'The U.S. (and, today, Churchill) do it too.' I haven't heard that refrain on HN in at least 5 minutes. Apparently people believe they are magic words that can normalize anything, from Hitler to Russia to China. Am I missing anyone? Stalin? Mao?

I'm not sure what point you're communicating or who you're quoting. Initially, you were alleging that my statements were false and not based on facts, but now, you're trying to say that it is commonly stated every 5 minutes? Please try to be clear. I get that these facts are uncomfortable for those of us who have benefited from these things, but the sooner we face them and try to make the world a fairer playing field the better off we will all be.