Talk:Epic Rap Battles of History 52/@comment-165.166.3.78-20150521134440/@comment-4920659-20150521145621

The main difference is that Hitler had a political reason for killing people and became a major historical figure for his actions, but he can still be considered offensive to certain people (as you said, most people can joke about Hitler without getting offended). Even during his time period, jokes were made about him as a taunt towards Nazi Germany. Bringing up recent shooters can be touchy and "too soon" in this case, similar to the reason Peter doesn't think Osama should be in ERB. Plus, even if this was a joke, it wasn't relatively funny and just showed the WC has a dark sense of humor, especially since he calls it the "best rap battle ever".