Overuse of Nazi comparisons

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Calling most Trump supporters Nazis is like calling most liberals Commies.....I’m glad Trump is gone. I hope Biden begins to heal our wounds.

Calling most Trump supporters Nazis is like calling most liberals Commies.....

I’m glad Trump is gone. I hope Biden begins to heal our wounds.

I took a long break from WP because I was called a Nazi by a couple of members. I also stopped using Germany related avatars in order to blend in, so I wouldn't be called a Nazi. I told myself that I will forgive those members and come back to WP after Remembrance Day 2020 using whichever avatar I wanted. It feels strange to be posting instead of working on my hobbies, but Sunday is now my day of rest.

Did I miss where someone called Trump supporters Nazis?

Or do you mean in general and not here?





You were using avatars that had Swastika in them. I remember being appalled by one of them. Then it seems like that got dealt with because I remember X Files Geek saying something to you about it and you were made to remove your avatar.

This makes it sound like the only way to be a nazi is to literally go and murder jews while conquering the world. If you haven't actually murdered scores of jews, and aren't actively trying to conquer the world, you can't be a nazi, apparently...

Nazi germany didn't start out trying to conquer the world. They started out trying to "make germany great again". And they didn't start out with murdering jews - they started with stuffing "relocating" them into ghettos and camps, "for the good of everyone".

Trump himself doesn't HAVE to murder anyone - all he has to do it point at someone, and his army of kobolds will go get em. Or, y'know, cripple the healthcare system during a pandemic, that works too. Don't have to kill em if you can just "let em die".

By the above logic, even someone who worships hitler, wishes nazi germany had won, literally calls themselves a nazi, and given the chance, would murder jews by the score if it weren't illegal to do so, still isn't *actually* a nazi, since they haven't *actually* murdered dozens of jews...

Trump, like most entitled power-seekers, doesn't actually do anything himself. Clean hands that way. That's where dog whistles come in. Imply that something "should happen" or "could happen", and let his cult of kobolds run with the idea. It's amazing to see his orange puckered baboon-ass face when he denies saying something that we just watched him say, and can watch him say again, cos it was recorded. Like a kid lying about stealing a cookie, while they're holding the cookie. That's literally how The Big Lie works. Stick to it, even in the face of obvious evidence to the contrary. "No I didn't!" A nazi tactic. They may not have invented it, but they sure popularized it.

Bigots come in many flavors. Comparing them to popularized well-known groups helps identify what flavor of bigotry they are.

Any negative term can be subverted to stifle criticism. It's called an ad-hominem attack. The word does not have to be "nazi" in order to work. It also ignores the real possibility that the "criticism" that's being "stifled" IS in fact a nazi or klan or otherwise bigoted idea. While I'm sure in peoples' imaginations, they can envision situations where all someone has to do is call someone else a nazi, and everyone immediately and unquestionably joins in the chant nazi! nazi! refusing to hear another word and running them out of town with pitchforks and torches never to be seen again, and everyone started to slow-clap... but I can't say I've ever actually seen this happen in the real world, outside of internet troll nests. If everyone were that gullible to begin with, we'd probably still have actual literal witch trials, and stage magicians would be executed on sight for their "dark arts".

The constant talk of Nazis on WP is bizarre and probably one of the reasons why there are so few members left.

Those who feel compelled to bring up Nazis all the time, need to find some place else than an autism support forum.

There's plenty of other places on the internet you can go to talk about Nazis all the time.

The constant talk of Nazis on WP is bizarre and probably one of the reasons why there are so few members left.

Those who feel compelled to bring up Nazis all the time, need to find some place else than an autism support forum.

There's plenty of other places on the internet you can go to talk about Nazis all the time.

No I'm saying they could have bombarded applicable sites with it instead of ruining WP. Which seems to be their real special interest.

This is PPR not the General Autism section.

It's pretty much the Nazis are everywhere on WP and need to be dealt with attitude that made the place what it is today.

I don't understand, sorry.
Do you mean people claim WP is full of Nazis?

I don't understand, sorry.
Do you mean people claim WP is full of Nazis?