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I think the problem lies in defining who a Nazi is. At Birkenau it is clear, and for a lot/most/all of those chanting ‘blood and soil’ in Charlottesville it is
by docdeek 9y ago
I think the problem lies in defining who a Nazi is. At Birkenau it is clear, and for a lot/most/all of those chanting ‘blood and soil’ in Charlottesville it is pretty clear, too.
There are many shades of grey between right wing and Nazi, though, and if we decide that Nazi speech is to be banned then we also need to start drawing a very clear line as to what is ‘Nazi enough to ban’ and what is just ‘approaching Nazi’.
I’m live and work in a country where the public denial of crimes against humanity is punished by fines and prison. I don’t deny crimes like the Holocaust or Srebrenica or Rwanda and I despise the people who do, but I still feel uncomfortable with laws that criminalise that sort of speech. This situation is not exactly the same - Daily Stormer can probably find someone else to support their site - but there’s something to the slippery slope argument.
- patrickg_zill 9y agoIn USA, anything less than full throated adherence to the party line of a San Francisco Marxist professor, is labeled "Nazi" by someone, somewhere.
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- celticninja 9y agoI think if you are marching with a swastika flag then you get the Nazi moniker regardless of what your exact political stance is.
- andriesm 9y agoNo forget all this labeling of people as Nazis.
- matthewmacleod 9y agoPeople who march under the swastika banner, adorn themselves with Nazi iconography, chant 'blood and soil' and identify themselves as Nazi can legitimately be labelled as Nazi. The term is often over-used; not in this case.
- aplummer 9y agoI'm not surprised about the downvotes, I would point out they had nazi flags and yelled a known nazi slogan as a group.
- aplummer 9y agoWow down-voted again on this post for pointing out two simple facts about the rally. It would be great to get a comment from the anon on here about what was so wrong.