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or convenience, or ignorance…
These two are especially important, and why I call fascist on pretty much all centrists who think that political and social ignorance is the most sensible and reasonable position. “Both sides have good and bad ideas,” they say with their head high, and after the damage is done they blame both sides for not being as sensible as them. “I dislike extremists no matter what side they’re on,” they say, as they scoff and roll their eyes at protestors marching against police brutality, “get a job” some of these enlightened centrists would say. They act wise, and caring, saying “I just want the best for humanity” with not even so much as a vague depiction of what that could be, or how to go about it, you ask “How do we get there?” They shrug. “Do you read any political theory?” you may ask, they shrug again. “I don’t take sides, nor do I have time to read anymore, I need to focus on work to pay the bills and feed my family.”
These types of people are not centrist, they’re fascist.
When you translate the word Nazi from German to English, it becomes Maga. You’re Welcome!
To answer the question, I care.
I don’t believe in a strong self determinism and I’m more of the opinion that if most of “us” were in the wrong sociopolitical circumstances we could very well be racist murderers.
Stopping them from doing what they got duped into doing is an end that justify many means, but there’s a significant difference between the leaders and the followers.
I think that societal conditioning can definitely turn people into awful people, agreed. I remember being a kid in junior high school and having friends pressuring me to participate in bullying other kids with them, and this to me seems like a similar thing. It is extraordinarily hard to resist one’s conditioning when surrounded by an entire culture trying to mold you into a monster on purpose.
I also don’t really subscribe to ‘A nazi is a nazi’ mentality, generally, because there are thousands of Nazis who were subversive in the ways they could be. Examples include Oscar Schindler and Wilm Hosenfeld. Both Nazis, both known to have helped people where they could or otherwise subvert the Nazi war effort.
Most, though, were just regular joes whose names (though not their stories) are lost to history. In the situation at the time it was often necessary, if you were collaborating with resistance forces, to use a false name or no name at all.
I remember asking why one of my favorite philosophers went by G.K. Chesterton instead of just G. Chesterton. Turns out, his cousin of the same name was more popular at the time and G.K. didn’t want people to confuse him with his cousin: the 1920s leader of the British Nazi party.
Can you post it somewhere that isn’t catbox? They block random people from their domain.
Reuploaded it to ibb.co
thank you <3
Absolutely right, but Jews don’t factor into the Lefts anti-nazism. Jews are just a nuisance now that they want to defend themselves. Jews are now targeted by “The Left” everywhere.
I’m a Jew. I have not been targeted by the left everywhere.
Jew and Israeli are not synonyms. They never have been and they never will be as long as I am alive and not forced to go there by the evangelicals who think I should be so Jesus can return. Because that is the only way I would ever set foot in that genocidal apartheid state.
How about you don’t speak for me?
So gross. I hope they all get turned down for great opportunities because of these images. (Unless they’ve since discarded hateful ideology and reformed themselves.)
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