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To be fair, I bet pictures with "Yay Facism!" stickers are probably taken down, as they should be.
by pinkmuffinere 1y ago
To be fair, I bet pictures with "Yay Facism!" stickers are probably taken down, as they should be.
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- FuriouslyAdrift 1y agoIn the early to mid 90's, geek culture had a thing for ironic agitprop. Great stuff... deeply cynical and very Gen X.
- denkmoon 1y agoAny group that gets its kicks out of pretending to be fools will soon find itself filled with fools who think themselves in good company - Abraham Lincoln
- anal_reactor 1y agoThere will be a time when people putting svastikas will be considered brave heroes. And then it'll be banned again. And then it'll resurface again. Turns out, "things that are obviously morally right" radically chances over time and across cultures.
- poly2it 1y ago> a time ... and a duality within the present forms of society in which either expression is interesting enough or leads up to a significant event such that we will remember it in the future. No time has been one-sided as in the way you put it.
- komali2 1y agoJust out of curiosity, what makes you think that everyone thought Naziism was morally right at its peak?
- HeinzStuckeIt 1y agoSeveral other European countries imitated German fascism in the 1930s (e.g. Hungary, Romania, Slovakia). This is well known in Eastern Europe because that brief period has cast long shadows to this day. Even in relatively faraway South America, Germany and Italy inspired several political movements. Sure, not everyone thought Naziism was good, because you can’t find any political philosophy in human history that everyone has the same opinion about. But it was still seen as a model by millions of people outside Germany until Germany started obviously losing the war.
- wredcoll 1y agoSome people like naziism. Those people were wrong. This isn't some kind of "oh morality is relative and somethings are cultural", it's just objectively wrong, regardless of who or how many people claim to like it.
- cindyllm 1y ago[dead]
- HeinzStuckeIt 1y ago> Some people like naziism. Those people were wrong. In your individual opinion. In mine, too, and hopefully everyone else’s here. But the OP was clearly talking about what views are presented as “morally right” by normative social forces, and those clearly differ across time and place, often as political power waxes and wanes.
- komali2 1y agoNo but that's my point, the nazis had to march entire classes of people to death camps at gun point to be considered "normative," and even then there was a resistance movement not only in every occupied country but also Germany itself. The reality is a minority of people were willing to use extraordinary violence and propaganda to present their viewpoint as "normal," but I don't agree that that made it "normal" even for the times. And even now we see that the normalization of naziism is apparently impossible - I was incredibly cynical about the American right wing happily embracing naziism, but I guess I was partially wrong: there's a schism this week over popular American right wing media figures platforming the nazi Nick Fuentes.
- diego_sandoval 1y agoWhere do you draw the line? One of them says "Socialist alternative".
- strken 1y agoSocialist Alternative is an Australian political org. They're one of the tiny Trotskyist factions that always seem to form any time two or more Trotskyists work together. That's why it's on a laptop next to a bunch of other far left political stuff. They're pretty much the opposite of "Yay Nazism!" Or were you drawing an equivalence between the two?
- antod 1y ago"You know who else made laptops wear pieces of flair?"