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Thanks everyone who replied. My answer is "Yes, but". I think it's better for people in Canada and Europe than in the US; I don't know much about the rest of the world. I think for people in the US or traveling to the US, it's a good idea to be careful. Oh, and obviously if you're posting about how great the Trump Gaza Casino will be, I think you're going to be OK in the US and you might be complicit in crimes against humanity in other places.

@evan Here in the UK, you can see the downstream effect of clinging to national stereotypes long after a government has done something terribly wrong. English people will regularly taunt German people about WWII, but not because of any actual behavioural link: it's just a way to show that England is better than Germany. It paints the problem not as the rise of fascism in a failed democracy, but as the spread of some kind of innate cultural Germanness that is Wrong Somehow.

And it just drives me up the wall. People who advocate cruel anti-immigrant and pro-empire policies in the UK will sneer at Germany hosting refugees, and invoke WWII caricatures in the process despite the positions having been reversed. It's just an extension of British chauvinism, and part of how we ended up in this dumb fact-free Brexit situation a decade ago.