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The book Ordinary Men covers this. It is quite fascinating. Regular people became the Nazis. People on HN could become Nazis. This is an uncomfortable truth not
by bitexploder 8y ago
The book Ordinary Men covers this. It is quite fascinating. Regular people became the Nazis. People on HN could become Nazis. This is an uncomfortable truth not many people are willing to confront. I’ll give HNers some credit, but still, the way it progresses is subtle and nefarious. (It being Authoritarianism into Totlitsrianism with a dictator$
- gaius 8y agoPeople on HN could become Nazis. Some already have - they just call themselves “antifa”, the same way deranged regimes always seem to call themselves “democratic” or “people’s”.
- Angostura 8y agoI'd be interested in seeing evidence of anyone on HN self-identifying as antifa. I mean, I'm anti-fascist, but 'antifa' seems like a pejorative label at this point.
- smcl 8y agoI haven't seen it either. In fact when I saw that the parent comment was flagged I thought that it probably called out the HN crowd for being too right wing. I've seen far more right-wing comments than left-wing - particularly when the James Damore stuff was hitting the news. And re "antifa" as a pejorative - I think it's only really used that way among the Fox news or Infowars crowd. If those guys want to come out as "anti-anti-fascist" then there's a much simpler term they can use ...