I think there are enough similarities for people to properly connect the two.
Well they ain’t. A Nazi is a specific economic and cultural philosophy/movement of a certain time and place. Anti immigration conservatives, even very racist misogynists aren’t usually nazis no matter how often people call that.
Crikeste@lemm.ee 2 months ago
John_McMurray@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Yeah it devalues the horror of genocide calling a person critical of mass immigration the same fucking thing.
Crikeste@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Trump supporters aren’t only critical of mass immigration. Go look at the second paragraph of the Nazism Wikipedia page. You’ll find those beliefs overlap quite a few times with American conservatives.
Quit being dense for no reason.
John_McMurray@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Hitler had ideas that overlap with Buddhism, PETA and myriad other groups, that is completely irrelevant.
MellowYellow13@lemmy.world 2 months ago
lol calm down John, yes they are
John_McMurray@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Read a book. Yall call so many things Nazi it’s lost all meaning. No sting left in the term.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 months ago
As a Jewish person (I assume you are not with a name like McMurray), no it hasn’t. The people being called Nazis on America’s
very fine peopleright have made no secret of their extreme antisemitism and would have no problem throwing me in a camp.theguardian.com/…/charlottesville-neo-nazis-vice-…
John_McMurray@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Huh. Didn’t know Flying Squid was a Jewish name.