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Casually using “Nazi” like this in context of American politics just means “anyone to the right of me” it’s ambiguous but the implications are clear If you ar

by jrsj 3y ago

Casually using “Nazi” like this in context of American politics just means “anyone to the right of me” it’s ambiguous but the implications are clear If you are a Christian, someone who would use this phrase would likely call you a Nazi. If you don’t want to abolish the state of Israel, they might call you a Nazi. It could be any issue really. But to actually be “safe” in an environment like this you have to align yourself roughly to the politics of the DSA or you aren’t welcome. I guess you could say at this point that “Nazi” has devolved into being a sort of a political slur referring to anyone who is not sufficiently leftist.

pvg 3y ago
That's a lot to bring to a random footer on a web page about something else. I get the distaste for sloganeering but the suggestion that 'the implications are clear' that this is.... the DSA? feels like a more than a bit of a reach.
- jrsj 3y ago
  It is a reach and that’s kind of the issue I guess. You have no idea whether or not people involved would call you a Nazi or what for, only that they might. I am probably overreacting to this because I have encountered it in the workplace before. Politics constantly being brought up inappropriately & the only safe move was to go out of your way to signal to the right people that you were on their “team”. The occasional political witch hunt over nothing would happen. A good portion of the company spent most of the day talking politics instead of working but I assume nothing was done out of fear of retaliation. A lot of really bizarre things, but hopefully not the norm.
  - pvg 3y ago
    You have no idea whether or not people involved would call you a Nazi You have no idea of that whatever footer they put on their page, short of one that is 'we like to call people Nazis'. The reaction is as if someone's already called you personally a Nazi and the footer doesn't do that. Again, I get the discomfort with the perception you might have different political views from whoever wrote that footer. But that's the discomfort of difference that comes with everyday life. Nobody has called anyone a Nazi, that's not a reasonable extrapolation from either the footer or your unpleasant personal experience combined with the footer.

by jrsj 3y ago

pvg 3y ago

That's a lot to bring to a random footer on a web page about something else. I get the distaste for sloganeering but the suggestion that 'the implications are clear' that this is.... the DSA? feels like a more than a bit of a reach.

jrsj 3y ago
It is a reach and that’s kind of the issue I guess. You have no idea whether or not people involved would call you a Nazi or what for, only that they might. I am probably overreacting to this because I have encountered it in the workplace before. Politics constantly being brought up inappropriately & the only safe move was to go out of your way to signal to the right people that you were on their “team”. The occasional political witch hunt over nothing would happen. A good portion of the company spent most of the day talking politics instead of working but I assume nothing was done out of fear of retaliation. A lot of really bizarre things, but hopefully not the norm.
- pvg 3y ago
  You have no idea whether or not people involved would call you a Nazi You have no idea of that whatever footer they put on their page, short of one that is 'we like to call people Nazis'. The reaction is as if someone's already called you personally a Nazi and the footer doesn't do that. Again, I get the discomfort with the perception you might have different political views from whoever wrote that footer. But that's the discomfort of difference that comes with everyday life. Nobody has called anyone a Nazi, that's not a reasonable extrapolation from either the footer or your unpleasant personal experience combined with the footer.