Public Response
A variety of testimonial has been posted on the official site. Much of the testimonial is positive (one user heralds the space as "A Post-Structuralist Analysis of the Socio-Semiotics of Fuhrer/Feline Inter-Contextuality", but a section entitled "We Hate Kitlers" proves that many members of society have had a hard time stomaching the idea of comparing kittens to a dictator. Comments on the site are riddled with grammatical errors but cite issues such as the fact "no cat deserves any connection with Hitler" and the more extensive "How can you possibly endorse or support facist racism? Don't you know your history? It's people like you who oppressed and killed my people. Do you think (you're) that much better than us? (You're trying to make Hitler and Natzism look cute - by (associating) small, adorable cats with their hatred. It's NOT cute, not NOT funny, and i am offended."
Cats That Look Like Hitler is one of many memes which has offended the public and put a serious historical tragedy in comedic light. Journalist and writer Jon Bershad has noted the eye-opening power of off-color internet sensations such as Cats That Look Like HItler, claiming that we "can't ignore" these responses to tragedy. The humor in the website can help people to "get over tragedy" and then "put (the situation) behind them so they can learn from it and move on."
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