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Originally Posted by Jsmith27
What? How am I supporting hate? I googled Nazi and posted the definition. The nazis were socialists. That is left wing. I called out suzzers gaslighting.
As Hitler explained
in his own words, they took the name as a protest against the leftist Marxist movements in the 20s. But who cares about that? Dictionary arguments are typically fairly ignorant and often a convenient way to ignore history. The Nazis built their first concentration camps to jail leftist politicians, their supporters and pretty much anyone who identified as a socialist in the traditional manner. This seems weird if they were socialists in the sense that the word was typically used, wouldn't you say?
But ignoring that, your argument is dangerous and stupid for two reasons.
The first one is simple, it masks the political foundation for Nazi extremism, namely its roots in nationalist tendencies, glorification of authority and portraying functional democracy as weak.
The second reason is more subtle. Your ill-reasoned argument actually obfuscates the
actual communist history in pre-WW2 Germany, which is anything but an heroic tale. The communists in Germany had ran their own equivalent to the Nazi SA, paramilitary thugs that terrorized political opponents and engaged in terrorism. They were, like the Nazis, ideologically opposed to democracy and would more than likely have gone down the same route of persecuting people on the other side of the political spectrum had they ever attained power.