happybadger [he/him] to Shit Reactionaries Say@lemmygrad.ml • 4 months ago[Liberal] Ackshully sweaty, it's wrong to vilify members of the Nazi party as Nazis.imagemessage-square15 fedilinkarrow-up143file-text
arrow-up143image[Liberal] Ackshully sweaty, it's wrong to vilify members of the Nazi party as Nazis.happybadger [he/him] to Shit Reactionaries Say@lemmygrad.ml • 4 months agomessage-square15 Commentsfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareThisMachinePostsHog [they/them, he/him]hexbear9·4 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." link
minus-square🏳️⚧️ 新星 [she/they]@lemmygrad.mlhexbear6·4 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. linkfedilink
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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.