Nazism was about the backlash against that, the desire of angry reactionaries to take a big complex culture and crush it down to size
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(I even read an article abt the Nazi tendency to alter the German language, which is famously florid and full of long run on compounds)
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(The Nazi subculture tended to avoid such formulations and replace them with short staccato abbreviations. Like, well, "Nazi")
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(That cultural tic was one thing Orwell borrowed for 1984 -- imagining Newspeak as Nazi-jargon translated to English)
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Anyway the point is flattening justified critiques of Russia then and now into "Russia is an inherently autocratic place" is dumb
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It isn't in the same category as actual racism but it's national chauvinism it's wrong and you look dumb
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MOST IMPORTANTLY it lulls you into that "It Can't Happen Here" mindset
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Like this is why targeting Trump's German heritage with dumb jokes like "Drumpf" is stupid
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So his dad comes from Germany. That doesn't make him not American af, or his brand of fascism any less homegrown and authentic
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People trying to make this stuff feel foreign, as though Hitler wasn't inspired by Henry Ford and hadn't studied US Jim Crow laws for ideas
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Trump is no more and no less American than the people he attacks and if we can't admit that we can't move forward
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I mean lets not forget that anti-fascist anger in the US was directly harnessed to enact fascist policies vs Japanese-Americans
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The worst thing abt how incoherent our WWII Discourse is is how condemning Unit 731 and EO 9066 at once gets read as somehow a contradiction
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