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Pointing out supposed hypocrites is just a hiding place for people uninterested in actual ideas.
Discussion is furthered by pointing out contradictions in positions. Hypocrisy is one of these contradictions.
So, if you're a US citizen, you can't say anything bad about the Nazis, because the US has done genocides, too.... Is that seriously your argument?
That's a pretty poor takeaway I would say. The argument would be that the Nazis took direct inspiration from the early US idea of Manifest Destiny and the dealings with Native Americans. That in turn should give people reason to think about how to change their own society and how to make the world better, instead of handwaving it away by saying, 'Nazi genocide was worse, why are you bringing up the US?'