Worked great in the 1920s.
I dunno, if someone is a nazi and believes that all of their enemies and non-white people should be exterminated, how do you trust that person to deal fairly with the people they hate? How do you trust a Nazi cook or server to deal fairly with the handicapped, black and gay customers? How do you trust a Nazi or White Supremacist social worker to work fairly with minorities? How do you trust a Nazi HR person or manager to fairly manage a diverse workforce?
Their very beliefs and the fact that they’re willing to put themselves out in public - showing their faces - to announce that they hold these odious beliefs is what renders them unemployable in far too many situations. It is a natural consequence.
Worked great in America.
Although a lot had to do with the fact that Nazis could not help to steal from their businesses and their draft dodging made them even more unpopular in the USA.
So, just like before: Don’t be a sucker. Even when some hard conservatives are not Nazis they are giving them too much oxygen right now.
Call him a Nazi, he won’t even frown,
“Ha, Nazi, Schmazi,” says Wernher von Braun.
Uh, I missed someone in the previous post.
"Of course, as I said, I see a lot of what you say that makes sense; but I have to note too at how conservatives in this message board also have pressed to almost pathological levels the point of “just talking about freedom of speech” while avoiding the elephant in the room caused by the other fact that the Nazis are getting a lot of support from the president, while usually also omitting that people were seriously hurt and even killed by the Nazis in the recent attempt to “Unite the right”.
Freedom of expression. If you don’t like it, you are a bigot. or something. Uh huh.
Anyone who doesn’t like Nazis is a bigot or something. :smack:
Well then my complaints are entirely too late, and you must inform everyone who missed the memo on this. Cuz I missed the memo. I thought “nazi” referred to people who agreed with the NSDAP and were in favor of genocide and violence against “lesser races”.
I literally cited one such example in my first post. Here’s another, talking about James Damore. Here’s a piece about Charles Murray.
Because there is no real difference between the guys who love the holocaust and want more where that came from, the guys who believe that we’re better off with a monoracial or monocultural state, and the guys who think black people are inferior and want to fix this with subsidies, better education, or universal basic income. Again, it’s easy to say “this isn’t happening”, but it is happening.
Oh for fuck’s sake. The president relied heavily on a Nazi base? “Unite the Right” was the biggest nazi gathering in decades. There was something like 500-1000 nazis there. By comparison, the women’s march gathered upwards of 3 million people to protest Trump.
Let’s work with some made-up numbers here and see where our intuitions lead us.
Let’s assume for the moment that neo-nazis are only as willing to march for their cause as anti-Trumpers, and that there are similar proportions in play, so about 1 out of 50 people devoted to the cause went to march. This is very charitable, as more extreme and out-there ideologies are more likely to have more devoted followers. Let’s assume that because there were women’s marches in all 50 states, Unite the Right would have had 50x as many people had it gone national. This is incredibly overcharitable.
Plug these figures in, and we find that the “nazi base” in the USA is, at most, about 10005050 = 2.5 million people. That’s your upper limit while being almost absurdly charitable. It’s also not too far off the numbers Scott Alexander found when he tried to estimate it based on polling data. Not an order of magnitude, anyways.
But that’s not nazis and white supremacists. That’s everyone who might hold specific racist attitudes like “the civil rights act was bad” or “I wouldn’t vote for a black president” or “I wouldn’t move in next to black people”. And this is akin to the number of people who believe that the government is run by lizard people. It’s almost an order of magnitude less than the people who believe that vaccines cause autism. Trump would have been better off banking his hopes on the chemtrails crowd - “I will crack down on illegal chemtrail spraying” would have been one hell of a thing to hear at a campaign rally, huh?
One hell of a base.
Yeah, okay, I’ll admit, that’s weird. Don’t really have a good answer for it.
Friendly reminder: the biggest Nazi rally possibly in US history just happened and you could fit all of them in the local Cineplex. This is not an operational threat.
“As noted, 9 percent overall call it acceptable to hold neo-Nazi or white supremacist views, while 83 percent call this unacceptable, leaving 8 percent with no opinion. Seventy-two percent feel strongly that it’s unacceptable.”
If we figure 9% (that will admit it in a poll), we have 29 million Americans thinking neo-Nazis and White Supremacists are A-ok.
Did you know that the solar eclipse has something to do with racism?
Now you know. Everything is racist. Even the Moon. Well maybe it’s not racist. But it is “relaying a message”. A racist message. With the eclipse.
Ale: those links don’t work for me. What’s the url of the articles?
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Nazis call off planned cook-out in Eau Claire, Wisconsin citing threats.
Counter-protests were already in the works.
“Eau Claire City Attorney Stephen Nick and Councilwoman Kate Beaton said the city is pleased that the event has been called off.”
Dan Harmon, the Community guy, thinks 29% of the American population are Nazis, and that Nazis ought to be killed. And that his beard suits him. He is wrong about all of these things.
‘Undertaker’s News’ ought to be thrilled.
Yes, that’d be my preferred option too. I don’t like Nazis, but I don’t remotely think everyone I don’t like is a Nazi. And I’m not a fan of pre-emptive punching, although punching a Nazi in self-defense is permissible.
Did you know that when someone repeatedly posts entirely unrelated material into discussions about the Charlottesville rally and neo-Nazis in America it give the strong impression that the person is doing so in order to deflect criticism of white supremacist marchers? Now you know.
And you know what else is racist? Racism. But hey - some people think eclipses are racist, some people think calling for the systematic persecution and death of people of other races is racist. It’s all the same, right?
In response to a post where Steophan was defending himself and arguing that he would be in the camps:
:mad:
Stop. Ruining. The. Word. Nazi.
Steophan is a douchebag. A boot-licking brown-noser. A racially insensitive douche-canoe.
He is not a fucking nazi.
God damn. Stop calling everyone you disagree with a nazi!
I called him a sympathizer.
Not that I could disagree with THE REST of your assessment 