Rain

 
Because people like dark humour.

I have a rather twisted and dark sense of humour - some would even call it macabre actually - and I can even appreciate some jokes about this very subject, but it never prevented me from using common sense so I can understand that trivializing Hitler and the death of millions by including him in a colouring book is actually just irresponsible and stupid. 
 
But for anyone completely desensitized who lacks common sense, indeed, sense of humour is a most convenient excuse.
 
If someday people worry about showing empathy a tenth as much as they worry about displaying their so-called sense of humour, we'll probably be able to laugh at everything. I wouldn't hold my breath though.
 
But that's just my 2 cents.
 
 
EDIT - FWIW, this was not meant as a personal attack against you. It's my reaction to general observations which seemed appropriate in the context of this discussion.
 

I wasnt so much referencing the picture in this book as a joke, but as in the rest of my post, Pewdiepie:
 
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2643864/pewdiepie-says-death-to-all-jews-and-hitler-was-right-in-latest-shock-joke-video/
 
The relevance to the colouring picture is how easily people get offended simply by seeing a picture of Hitler. Theres literally no context behind it, its just a blank picture for colouring.

Rain

craigb
Everyone likes to talk about Hitler, yet he's only #3 on the list (and #1 killed more than #2 and #3 combined).  I find it weird that nobody really talks about the top two much (in comparison).
 

 

I don't know, honestly.
 
I can tell you this though: I've never seen people chanting communist slogans and threaten people around Las Vegas, but we've had neo-Nazi demonstration right in front of the nearest synagogue during a Bar Mitzvah not so long ago.
 
The sick ideas that that monster represents are still very much alive all around us, that I can tell you first hand, and the imbeciles who adhere to such ideologies are certainly doing everything in their power not to let us forget.
 

 
I regularly see young people wearing the Soviet hammer and sickle on a red t-shirt, the symbol of a regime that killed tens of millions of its own citizens. I also see them wearing t-shirts sporting images of Che Guevera, a man who symbolized a regime which brutalized its own citizens, jailed or killed dissenters and created conditions so bad that over a million took to flimsy rafts across shark infested waters to escape. Some of these people hold the "you can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs" philosophy, and while they're not out there on the streets chanting racist slogans or threatening people, you just know that come the revolution they're hoping for, they'd be the first to lead their "incorrectly thinking" neighbors into the Gulag at the point of a bayonet. 
 

IBTL.

craigb
Everyone likes to talk about Hitler, yet he's only #3 on the list (and #1 killed more than #2 and #3 combined).  I find it weird that nobody really talks about the top two much (in comparison).
 

Sadly Craig, the western world isn't really that interested in what happened in China under Mao. Also, his story is pretty complicated compared the other two, and much of his 'toll' could be attributed to his attempt at steering China's economy rapidly away from agriculture and into heavy industry, thereby bringing about a widespread famine. On the other hand, it's said that he increased life expectancy in China through improvements in education and healthcare, and eventually almost doubled the population.
 
A couple of years ago I did some reading about the 2nd Japan-China conflict and a piece about the Siege of Nanking. Really wish I could un-read that.

sharke
I regularly see young people wearing the Soviet hammer and sickle on a red t-shirt, the symbol of a regime that killed tens of millions of its own citizens. I also see them wearing t-shirts sporting images of Che Guevera, a man who symbolized a regime which brutalized its own citizens, jailed or killed dissenters and created conditions so bad that over a million took to flimsy rafts across shark infested waters to escape. Some of these people hold the "you can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs" philosophy, and while they're not out there on the streets chanting racist slogans or threatening people, you just know that come the revolution they're hoping for, they'd be the first to lead their "incorrectly thinking" neighbors into the Gulag at the point of a bayonet. 
 

 
I agree but I tend to see those people as a bunch of very confused poseurs who'd be the first victims of the kind of ideology that they are theoretically supporting. Overgrown know-it-all college students.
 
There are stupid people who believe and say all kinds of stupid things. The fact they they do not represent a real threat makes a the difference to me.