Jerking it to shirtless Murry Rothbard is so far beyond the issue of "You people don't understand the political compass". But putting Fascism in the center isn't out of line.
If we're being specific to the period, Fascism absolutely is a centrist political philosophy between the end points of monarchism and communism. Absent a government of hereditary aristocrats, it's easy to throw up your hands and say "A dictatorship is a dictatorship, what's the difference?!" but at the time there was a huge ideological shift from "Only blue bloods have the innate capacity to rule" to "Literally anyone sufficiently black-pilled can govern our nation".
There is also a perpetual desire to make German Fascism some kind of unique and exceptional form of evil. As though genocide was something the Germans invented, rather than an epidemic of social violence that had been plaguing mankind for millenia. Hitler wasn't special. He was one demagogue in an era riddled with them. One more anti-Semite engaging in a tradition dating back to the Inquisition. And the notion that he wasn't "centrist" because we've turned him into a Saturday Morning Cartoon villain is going to blind people to all the other nightmarish characters that have infested western governments before and since.
As a German, I feel like we’re one of the few nations who actually constantly teach our young generations of the atrocities our nation has committed, like, it’s 70% of our history classes. We constantly get reminded of what Nazi Germany did. I don’t think any country or culture does that to this extent.
And I feel like some people use the opportunity to just point to us while sweeping their own nation‘s history under the rug.
Yes, what Hitler did was a genocide of an unprecedented scale. But Germany isn’t the only country with a „dark past“. Germany isn’t an outlier. Yet Hitler is one of the first things people associate with Germany.
Jerking it to shirtless Murry Rothbard is so far beyond the issue of "You people don't understand the political compass". But putting Fascism in the center isn't out of line.
If we're being specific to the period, Fascism absolutely is a centrist political philosophy between the end points of monarchism and communism. Absent a government of hereditary aristocrats, it's easy to throw up your hands and say "A dictatorship is a dictatorship, what's the difference?!" but at the time there was a huge ideological shift from "Only blue bloods have the innate capacity to rule" to "Literally anyone sufficiently black-pilled can govern our nation".
There is also a perpetual desire to make German Fascism some kind of unique and exceptional form of evil. As though genocide was something the Germans invented, rather than an epidemic of social violence that had been plaguing mankind for millenia. Hitler wasn't special. He was one demagogue in an era riddled with them. One more anti-Semite engaging in a tradition dating back to the Inquisition. And the notion that he wasn't "centrist" because we've turned him into a Saturday Morning Cartoon villain is going to blind people to all the other nightmarish characters that have infested western governments before and since.
Centrism is not anti-genocide. Never has been.
As a German, I feel like we’re one of the few nations who actually constantly teach our young generations of the atrocities our nation has committed, like, it’s 70% of our history classes. We constantly get reminded of what Nazi Germany did. I don’t think any country or culture does that to this extent.
And I feel like some people use the opportunity to just point to us while sweeping their own nation‘s history under the rug.
Yes, what Hitler did was a genocide of an unprecedented scale. But Germany isn’t the only country with a „dark past“. Germany isn’t an outlier. Yet Hitler is one of the first things people associate with Germany.
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