There's this particularly annoying thing that you ratcultists keep doing, which is trying to invent facially neutral ways to describe evil behavior. But the thing is, EVIL BEHAVIOR ISN'T FACIALLY NEUTRAL.
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Replying to @iridienne @arthur_affect and
The Nazis were bad because they were violent and xenophobic toward PEOPLE OF OTHER ETHNICITIES and DISABLED PEOPLE and LGBT PEOPLE. They made up stories about how terrible THE JEWS and THE ROMA and DISABLED PEOPLE and TRANS PEOPLE were to justify their behavior.
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Replying to @iridienne @arthur_affect and
Generalizing from the particular here doesn't actually illuminate some greater truth; rather, it elides the entire history of WHY those groups, WHY those stories, WHY that particular exercise of power and violence rather than some other.
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Replying to @iridienne @arthur_affect and
I'm not sure it matters why the Nazis did what they did? It was evil regardless of their reasons, wasn't it?
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Replying to @PlzBeSensible @arthur_affect and
Your entire question illustrates an error in your thinking. You can't talk about "what they did" without talking about their reasons, that's the whole point. "What they did" is MURDERED JEWS AND ROMA AND DISABLED PEOPLE AND TRANS PEOPLE.
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Replying to @iridienne @arthur_affect and
Please explain to me why "the entire history of WHY those groups" is relevant to how atrocious Nazis were. Because it sounds to me like you're saying if the history had been different their actions would've been justified.
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Replying to @PlzBeSensible @iridienne and
Doing the exact same things to the Nazis that the Nazis did to other people would have been extremely justified
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Replying to @arthur_affect @PlzBeSensible and
Murdering their children in front of them?
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Replying to @lawnerdbarak @PlzBeSensible and
Well, that's not doing something to the Nazis
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It's doing something to a child in order to hurt the Nazis, which isn't the same, assuming that we can't morally label a child as an actual Nazi themselves (which is what the philosophical treatise Jojo Rabbit explores)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @PlzBeSensible and
Murdering their family members is doing something to someone else. But sending someone a bullet fee, or otherwise forcing them to participate in the act, is doing something to them as well.
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Replying to @lawnerdbarak @arthur_affect and
And the whole thing about fascism is that you can’t separate each depravity they commit into isolated discrete acts. They reflect a programmatic whole, each contextualizing the other.
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