When you feel compelled to compare someone or something to the Nazis, please remember that Nazis were not just mean, cruel, bigoted, discriminatory, ignorant or slanderous to groups they did not like. They killed them in death camps.
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Replying to @Plinz
The Nazi party first entered the German parliament in 1924 and took power in 1933. The first extermination camp became operational only in 1940. The descent into cruelty takes time. When someone looks like a Nazi, walks and talks like a Nazi, you may as well call them a Nazi.
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Replying to @tapeloop
I understand and agree with your point of early vigilance, but I still think that imaginary walking patterns are not as good as diagnostic predictors as is large groups with military organization waving "Mein Kampf", which explicitly states the intended politics.
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I think the point is ....by that time it’s a little late.
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Replying to @artistcollier @tapeloop
If you spend your time fighting people that look like Nazis to you, and you are ineffective (i.e. you threaten, hurt and aggravate them instead of actually killing them), then these people will start organizing and fight back. At the same time, you may overlook the actual Nazis.
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Perhaps you dislike nationalists, and devout conservative Christians, and libertarians, and narcissist Billionaires, but do you really want all of these different camps to fight you, just because you cannot distinguish them from Nazis?
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What I hope is that extreme groups can be ‘nipped in the bud’ through means like ranked voting that can help prevent groups that can attain a plurality but not a majority from coming to power. I’d like to support mechanisms that favor the center.
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People will always tend to believe what they believe to be in their best interest to believe. If you try to override the beliefs of people with coercive measures, they will usually resist. The best way of changing personal norms may consist in changing the world.
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