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Another salient point that must be made: if we always depict the Nazis as inhuman monsters, as most videogames do, then people learn that true Nazism is perpetr
by Asooka 9y ago
Another salient point that must be made: if we always depict the Nazis as inhuman monsters, as most videogames do, then people learn that true Nazism is perpetrated by those and only those. So when you hear an actual seemingly intelligent human being explaining how racism is totally cool, you automatically don't see that person as a Nazi, because he is a person and not a monster. People may not be able to understand Prolog programs, but everyone has the instinct that "A=>B <=> !B=>!A". Nazi => monster, that person is an ordinary person, so he isn't advocating for Nazism. Of course, we want then to think "that is Nazism, so the person advocating for it is a monster", but many people don't think that way. In a way it parallels the failure of the War on Drugs and the Scare Them Straight campaigns.
I wish more media would humanise the Nazis, show that those are completely ordinary people, some up for the doctrine, some against it, all caught in one completely ordinary, if slightly mentally off person's plan to make his country the greatest place on Earth for his own people. They did horrible things. They did beautiful things. They were no different than you or me.
- SamUK96 9y agoTo be honest by how many times the terms Nazi and Facism get flung about these days i'de say that people _not_ seeing people as someone like a Nazi maybe isn't the problem, but quite the opposite. Then again I suppose both our views are pretty anecdotal and futile to even talk about without it degenerating into "well i saw six people do this", "well i saw seven do the other so my view is more right" kind of gobblewash.
- anigbrowl 9y agoSpeak for yourself. I am perfectly comfortable viewing people who say racism is totally cool as Nazis, once it's established that they're smart/educated enough to know better and choose to be racist anyway. It's not surprising to me that nice ordinary people are capable of monstrous behavior. Saying 'well everyone was just caught up in it, it could happen to any of us' is an abdication or moral responsibility. Subscribing to any kind of authoritarian/eliminationist ideology is reprehensible.
- forgottenpass 9y agoPeople may not be able to understand Prolog programs, but everyone has the instinct that "A=>B <=> !B=>!A". People do not have an instinct against denying the antecedent. It's a common fallacy. And even when people know about the logical error and can recognize it represented with "P"s and "Q"s, it is also well known that people don't always have the pattern matching skills to notice a similarity in _shape_ of argument when the _topic_ of argument is different. Edit: I accidentally called denying the antecedent by the name affirming the consequent.