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Originally Posted by kane
It seems like these days there are some people who just label anything they don't agree with as Hitler/Nazi/Fascist. A few years ago there was a woman standing in front of my local post office holding a sign that had a picture of Obama's face with a Hitler mustache on it and she was saying he was a Nazi. When I asked her what she meant she went off on a rant about how Obama and Hitler basically had the same agenda (she was pissed about Obamacare) so, therefore, Obama was Nazi. Just to mess with her I asked how he could be a Nazi when he was clearly a Muslim. . . she just looked at me like a spring in her head had snapped.
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When someone perceives Obama as a Nazi, you can just assume they don't even understand what a Nazi is, and that they're most likely misinformed.
When a room full of people at an alt-right meeting are yelling "heil" and using the Nazi hand salute...well there's no mistaking that for what it really is. What hairs are there to split over that scene? It's a bunch of fucking Nazis unabashedly acting like Nazis.
The waters are not muddy here. Alt-right should be called what it is...white supremacy. Normalizing their speech is not the direction civilization is supposed to be heading, and Trump's election has seemed to embolden these ugly people. Every news outlet should stop calling them the "alt-right" and call them what they are --- white supremacists, or Nazis. Letting them have this new branding with a harmless sounding moniker is doing exactly what they need to be de-marginalized.