• Zoldyck@discuss.online
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    Let’s do a little experiment:

    • Tankies are horrible
    • Nazi’s are horrible
    • The US is horrible
    • Russia is horrible
    • China is horrible
    • AntiOutsideAktion [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      See what I’m going to do is I’m going to make the nazis look equally bad to all these other things. That way the nazi atrocities will look less problematic and I get to smear my enemies with a tainted term.

      No I’m not a nazi, why do you ask?

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            1. Is wasn’t mine

            2. You’re trying to hard to see what you want to see in order to sound morally superior for Internet high fives.

            It is clearly a half assed joke saying that if you call a group horrible, someone with get butt hurt and respond accordingly. Which in a round about way is exactly what you did. Any further reading into it is on you.

            • AOCapitulator [they/them, she/her]@hexbear.net
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              Just so you know, Nazis have used assertions exactly like what Zoldyck said literally since the day after the nazis were defeated.

              One name for it is “double genocide theory” which is used to a) diminish the crimes of the Nazis/ even to the extent of genocide denial and b) equate fascism and communism (an absolutely absurd claim, to be clear. Ask about it if you’re unaware!)

              This is not something we regularly go around doing, we are very careful with what stuff we call nazi shit. We’re careful not to make the word lose its meaning. This was an example of a common nazi/nazi-adjacent talking point, and we take it seriously when we encounter it.

              Its just like “Blue Lives Matter” is thinly veiled racism. other examples include 1488, the 14 words, ‘states rights’, etc.

              It is clearly a half assed joke

              They may have thought it was just a joke when saying it, but the intent doesn’t matter, because they may also have known what they were doing and did it on purpose, because they’re a nazi/ nazi adjacent.

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                You seem to know what you’re talking about, and not going to debate you on any of the points you just brought up. I certainly don’t disagree with anything you just said. I just still feel it’s a stretch to assume that comment is equating all of those things that were listed. That’s not what I took away from it at all, and still don’t.

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                  just still feel it’s a stretch to assume that comment is equating all of those things that were listed.

                  I’m not sure I understand, Isnt that explicitly what the point of the post was? to equate all those things so that communists would get angry at them? what point was that comment making, in your view?

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                    In my view, I don’t think it was aimed soIely at communism. Can’t speak for the intent of the poster unless they weigh in though. My view when saying they wanted to test something and then say several groups were horrible was to get a reaction from those that belong to said groups as a sort of half assed shotgun technique. I really didn’t expect it to get a rise out of anyone reasonable which is why I made my initial comment. All of those groups listed have various sized vocal subgroups that will aggressively defend their view points with a “them vs us” take.

                    That said the view points themselves are very different so that is where the equivalence stops.

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        I mean using that logic, is your post not apologetic towards the other, non-nazi entities listed?

        “I’ll remind everyone that the nazis were definitely the worst there, that’ll make the others seem less bad by comparison.”

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        Didn’t know calling Nazi’s horrible is apologetic…

        The comment doesn’t mention Child Rapists, so I guess OP doesn’t think those are horrible?

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      The fun is if you had made some point about something china or Russia related and HADN’T also mentioned that the US is horrible, you’d get dogpiled.

      The US is horrible, leave me alone

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        I mean yeah because the US does the same horrible horrible shit other existing countries do just more of it. Mentioning the smaller problem while ignoring the bigger problem(that we are closer to) is just how liberal brainwashing works.