happybadger [he/him]@hexbear.net to Shit Reactionaries Say@lemmygrad.mlEnglish · 5 months ago[Liberal] Ackshully sweaty, it's wrong to vilify members of the Nazi party as Nazis.hexbear.netimagemessage-square16fedilinkarrow-up144arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up144arrow-down1image[Liberal] Ackshully sweaty, it's wrong to vilify members of the Nazi party as Nazis.hexbear.nethappybadger [he/him]@hexbear.net to Shit Reactionaries Say@lemmygrad.mlEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square16fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareInfamousblt [any]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·5 months agoYou can’t call someone a Nazi unless they come from the Nazi region of Germany. Anyone else is just a sparkling fascist.
minus-squareThisMachinePostsHog [they/them, he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·5 months agoI actually had a friend tell me this once, in 2017 after Charlottesville. When I called those guys Nazis, he said, “You’re minimizing what the Jewish people went through during the Holocaust. If they’re not a member of the NSDAP, they’re not Nazis.”
minus-square🏳️⚧️ 新星 [she/they]@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·5 months agoThe premise of not wanting to use Holocaust related words lightly is a good idea because of things like double genocide theory. However, when someone has explicit genocidal intent, denying it is literally enabling a genocide.
You can’t call someone a Nazi unless they come from the Nazi region of Germany. Anyone else is just a sparkling fascist.
I actually had a friend tell me this once, in 2017 after Charlottesville. When I called those guys Nazis, he said, “You’re minimizing what the Jewish people went through during the Holocaust. If they’re not a member of the NSDAP, they’re not Nazis.”
The premise of not wanting to use Holocaust related words lightly is a good idea because of things like double genocide theory.
However, when someone has explicit genocidal intent, denying it is literally enabling a genocide.