The amount of Nazi sympathizing I see among NATO bootlickers is disgusting.

  • PaulSmackage [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    I’ve said before that the crimes of nazis will be piled onto Hitler and leave the rest unscathed before. I just didn’t expect it to be so soon. “We have liberated Europe from fascism, but they will never forgive us for it.” - Zhukov

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    I agree, but we shouldn’t scoff at or mock people just because they hold different views from us. Remember to keep the tone polite and respect those who want to make a little ceremony of it, even if you don’t agree!

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    The recent Patreon episode of Pod Damn America had me grumbling. I know they’re succdems, but you’d think they would know this wouldn’t be the time to call out the Soviets on shit that they either did or was blown out of proportion by U.S./Nazi propagandists.

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    Honestly I disagree, though more so with what this entails and how it was said than with what was said.

    There are good faith explanations for some statements which appear to enable or excuse Nazis. Approaching those statements with hostility, not thinking of why the person made the statement, not only makes the person making the statement less likely to understand why what they did/said is wrong (as if they may perceive your hostility as an attack on them, therefore becoming defensive), but also makes it easier for those who intentionally excuse, enable or are (neo)Nazis / other reactionaries, to dismiss those against them, painting them as dramatic and appealing to more people

    As an example take the statement

    Trans women have an advantage in sports over a cis woman

    While this statement is most definetly transphobic, a person who said this may not be:

    • men are on average stronger than women
    • trans women did have a body of a man in the past
    • the strength may not have gone away
    • this person who I feel like knows what they are talking about says this is true

    is a perfectly reasonable way to come to this conclusion. It is of course false, but calling that person transphobic will only give fuel to those who do actually hate trans people and want them erased from existing to paint those who support trans people as delusional. Saying that feminizing hormone therapy erases any advantage in muscle strength is more likely to actually make them back off.

    TL;DR: being hostile to those who you think may support reactionaries/(neo)Nazis is more likely to make them further support them than stop doing so.

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    So instead of a solution to the Nazi problem you suggest to do like the Nazis and commit genocide.

    You’re just as whack as the Nazis you hate

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      hey everyone, get a load of this nerd’s edit:

      Edit: Damn, there’s a lot of borderline nazis here. You can keep telling yourself that your path is righteous but it does not change the fact you are all horrible people.

      I have a friend that is deep in to the alt-right conspiracy territory and the one thing that keeps him from going all out extremist is me and some other friends. At heart he is a good person that is deeply misled and troubled and that is why it is important we keep in him our circle, engage in dialogue with him and challenge his views.

      bawww my fash friend is really a good person i swear (and please don’t point out that i’m more similar to him than i realise)!
      also i like challenging views, which is why I immediately call those who oppose fascists “literal nazis”

      shut the fuck up, loser

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        Damn, there’s a lot of borderline nazis here.

        Everyone the liberal doesn’t like is a nazi, except nazis that the liberal likes, those are Ukranian heroes morshupls

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        While I don’t know what the original user said besides your quote, working to rehabilitate and convince people despite the most awful is a laudable goal.

        How is someone who is against the thesis of something the very thing they are against? The only thing I can think of is the Nietzsche quote about the abyss. It seems like a form of dialectics? Like there’s an understanding of a contradiction of sorts and then some essential aspect is filtered out and that’s applied to everything in the situation. Then some small exclusion is made for whatever the specific characteristics are that line up with the conditions the person has is proposed (in this case their friend’s circumstances). I think what I dislike is that there might not be further investigation and attempts to broaden discussion are met with some hostility.

        It’s not as though I want to make things unpleasant for others, but it seems like it’s frequently taken that way :/

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        It’s sad to have to realize that “good” (whatever that means) people can become nazis too, and it’s almost like you have to mourn them before they die. But they have died, that person has allowed their hueristic to be replaced with an exterminationist one, and in doing so discarded what made them worthy of mourning in the first place. I had high school friends who became nqzis and tough shit, you have to write them off. Ironically, I look at fascists the way they portray rioters: as zombies. But where they see zombies as nothing but metatextual human meat targets, I focus on what they actually are, in the lore of all those stories. They’re the final-stage victims of a brainworm infestation, their actions are dictated by a mindless hate fashioned by a mindlessly atavistic un-sapience. They have made themselves human cnidocytes, individual stinging cells in the body of the mad god Capital, and will go on stinging and poisoning forever until they’re stopped. Hopefully whatever’s left of the person they used to be in there can glean some measure of calm, perspective and understanding in the quiet moments after someone acts in defense of the rest of humanity, but thats’s about the best you can realistically hope for them.

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        my response to that edit:

        By all means, work on the individuals in your life, but we won’t always have the luxury to treat them as therapy cases. When nazis start marching, there’s no pause button where you can stop time and deradicalize those people before they hurt innocents.

        Bigotry is also hard to cure. It self-reinforces. It diminishes empathy and creates negative confirmation biases, which then makes it hard to see past stereotypes. This is even more intense for well-off white people, because then classism and class narcissism play into it too.

        Most of the time you’re not going to talk someone out of their bigotry. The only real cure is exposure, taking time to get to know people from the group they hate, and even then bigots are liable to compartmentalize about how “they’re one of the good ones.”

        We don’t always have time for that. Sometimes the only solutions are violence and intimidation.

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      You’re exactly the kind of childish, credulous fuck the nazis love

      “Genocide on nazis” jesus christ, wont someone think of the poor genociders??

      You should shut the fuck up and stop embarassing yourself

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      It is easy to not be a Nazi. Socialists do a multi faceted way in response to them though.

      1. Force, make it so that Nazis can’t retain power, this includes lawful sentences, pit as well as not enabling Nazi speech and setting an end to Nazi bars.
      2. Limit people’s exposure with Nazi propaganda and teach instead about how Nazism works and why it is bad, teach about collective structures and how to resist rightists.
      3. Destroy the material base for Nazism.

      People like you are only enabling Nazis and even Karl Popper would slap you in your face. All those steps are securing the health of marginalized people. This is very different to what Nazis do.

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      Killing Nazis has been the only real solution to the Nazi problem since their inception.

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        Call me a smart aleck, but abolishing capitalism was really the only effective way to prevent fascism.

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      A Nazi can choose to not be a Nazi and be spared from defensive, anti fascist, violence. But the people who need protection from offensive Nazi violence: people of color, queer people, Jewish people, etc. Can not change the immutable characteristics that make them “undesirable” and therefore worthy of extermination by Nazis.

      All Violence is not equivalent. You punching me in the face is not the same thing as me punching back in retaliation.

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        in retaliation

        Okay, but what if the Nazi is sticking his little finger directly in front of your eye and chanting “I’m not touching you! I’m not touching you!” while his buddies creep up behind you with a big Holocaust themed butterfly net. Surely, then, you have no right to punch the Nazi, because he hasn’t actually done anything wrong yet.

        Also, what if the Nazi is a cop, and then the cops investigate the cops and they determine that the cops have done nothing wrong. Then, clearly, the Nazi hasn’t done anything wrong and your hands are tied, right?

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      You are the apathetic bystander that gives rise to fascism in the name of “civility.”

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        How is it apathetic to not distance myself from my friend and keep debating with him that his worldview is completely wrong? How will he every change his view if no one talks to him?

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          I don’t care about your friend. If you want to be a lecturer in a re-education camp that’s all fine with me, but what you’re advocating for is dangerous. You’re choosing to obstruct the most successful method of dealing with fascism of all time because of an edge case. I can’t tell you if your friend can be reasoned out of fascism, but I can tell you that if you don’t hurry up he’s either going to hurt somebody or somebody will deal with him for you.

          We do not and never will have handlers for every single fascist on the planet. If you don’t have actual solutions you should get out of the way before someone thinks you’re more than a sympathizer.