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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)10/07/2017 8:15:46 am PDT

re: #131 Citizen K

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How did defending Nazis become mainstream? I don’t even mean in the Godwin sense, or even the ACLU’s ‘defending speech you still deplore’, but defending actual literal Nazi beliefs or avowed Nazis as somehow more decent people than (insert generic Liberal name here)? HOw have we fucking come to this, that Nazism has become actually re-mainstreamed?

I think sadly part of it is the actual memory of the Nazis becoming more distant. When I was a kid, our grandfathers or great uncles had all been WWII vets. Some were liberal, some conservative but all proud of their role in the Axis defeat.