Can we please stop referring to genocide supporters and people who oppress their own countrypeople as "patriots"?

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Kiki_the_Cyber_Squarrel
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(posted in The Troll Lounge for being off-topic but otherwise a very serious post)

I would appreciate if people would stop referring to e.g. Hitler as a "nationalist" when what he did was genocide his country's own people and privatize government institutions. It is rightly said that nazis ("""national-socialists""") weren't socialist but people neglect to mention that they weren't nationalists either else they wouldn't have done such atrocities to their country. Calling them "nationalists" feeds into their propaganda. Another example is Mussolini, who pretended to be a nationalist yet made his country an extremely oppressive nazi German puppet.

Bad Wikipedia take (proxy):
https://wikiless.tiekoetter.com/wiki/Fructuoso_Rivera?lang=en
> Uruguayan general and patriot
> He made a controversial decision to almost completely eliminate the native Charrúa during the 1831 Massacre of Salsipuedes.
"controversial decision"? Is that the euphemism you use for such a catastrophic event? Now, I'm not Uruguayan and critical-thinking people rightly distrust Wikipedia, so it could be that Wikipedia is lying (Wikipedia loves to lie under pretense of NPOV ("Neutral Point of View"), but if according to themselves if there really was a genocide how do they have the audacity to call such a man a patriot, someone who ordered mass murder of his own people and who I find no signs in the article of showing any regret later on in his life. I hate your submission to evil, Wikipedia. I wish you didn't pretend to be "neutral" but rather actually sided on the side of the people and other sentient beings.