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(Anonymous) 2018-07-12 01:36 am (UTC)(link)The thing is, there are some ways in which these groups can be considered Nazis - the fact that they identify themselves as such, for instance, and that they believe in Nazi ideology, and aim themselves towards the same political ends the Nazis did. On the other hand, there are some ways in which they can't - they are different organizations, with no historical continuity between them. There's some complexity in how we use the word "Nazi."
In a historical sense, yeah, it's more accurate to distinguish them. But it's not, like, an unreasonable thing to say. And I think the importance of denouncing these groups and their Nazi ideology generally outweighs the historical accuracy.
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(Anonymous) 2018-07-12 01:47 am (UTC)(link)no subject
(Anonymous) 2018-07-12 01:54 am (UTC)(link)Yep, I'm a centrist/moderate, and the words nazi, white supremacist, racist, etc. have lost all meaning to me.
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(Anonymous) 2018-07-12 02:01 am (UTC)(link)From where I'm sitting.
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(Anonymous) 2018-07-12 03:48 am (UTC)(link)The political ideology absolutely does reflect that. Especially in the instance of the groups that explicitly identify themselves as Nazis and use Nazi iconography. Their political ideology of those people is Naziism. Their organization, you could say, is not officially Nazi. It is true that no contemporary Nazi, fascist, or white supremacist is formally connected to the original German NSDAP, which is the most specific definition possible of the word "Nazi". But it's a stupidly limited definition to insist on, especially if you're talking specifically about their ideology.
Calling them "Nazis" is completely reasonable in many cases. There are some cases where it's just straight-up inaccurate, yes. And yes, there's some value in delineating the exact definition of radical right-wing racist ideologies. If I could control what term people used, I think "fascist" would probably be a better term in most cases. But there are many cases where "Nazis" isn't objectively unreasonable, and the specific distinction that you are using to object to it just does not matter very much.
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(Anonymous) 2018-07-12 08:56 am (UTC)(link)second of all no one in germany gives a ahit about your distinction we still call neo-nazis nazis because there is literally nothing wrong with calling a spade a spade nor is it worth "splitting hairs" about, you're just muddying the discussion about those dumbfucks
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(Anonymous) 2018-07-12 12:14 pm (UTC)(link)no subject
(Anonymous) 2018-07-12 02:24 pm (UTC)(link)Naziism was a pan-German nationalist movement that was committed to a fairly broad vision of "Aryan" blood. If you're an American talking about "the future of the white Aryan race" and blood and loyalty and stuff like that, that fits pretty comfortably within Nazi ideology, even if it's not explicitly German. This just isn't a contradiction in the way that you think it is.
They are Neo-Nazis who probably don't know shit about World War I/II era Germany
well, they obviously know something about WWII era Germany
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