• JustinA
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    5 hours ago

    Of course, after Trump in the white house, it’s kinda irrelevant.

    Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed.
    That word is “Nazi.” Nobody cares about their motives anymore.
    They joined what they joined. They lent their support and their moral approval. And, in so doing, they bound themselves to everything that came after. Who cares any more what particular knot they used in the binding?

    • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 hours ago

      Sure, let’s just casually label half the fucking country as Nazis. That definitely worked last time.

      Prime fucking example of exactly what their first comment was talking about.

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        “We” aren’t labeling “them” anything. They literally sided with Neo-Nazis. People carrying swastika flags in support of Trump, and you think “not Nazis” were ok with that? Sorry friend, but no. If someone is okay to march with Nazis, they’re a fucking Nazi.