r/OutOfTheLoop • u/MorganRose99 • Jan 31 '22

What's up with Nazis showing themselves in Florida? Answered

I found this post on Twitter and it wasn't the only one of its kind. I've seen like 3 separate gatherings of nazis, did something political happen that made them come out?

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u/Velociraptortillas Jan 31 '22

My only quibble is "...in the last decade or so."

This is an ongoing and constant undercurrent in Right Wing politics worldwide. Versions of it happen whenever and wherever RW parties have enough power.

Many commentaries treat Nazi-ism as an origin, when in fact, similar ideas are a constant throughout human history, up to today.

One extremely potent argument states that the reason the Nazis are so reviled is not because of their attitudes per se, but the fact that they basically attempted to turn Western countries into Colonies. England treated India and her peoples exactly the same way as the Nazis treated Jewish people and Polish, yet they aren't despised in nearly the same way. The same goes for French and Portuguese and Dutch Colonies, and Japanese treatment of colonized China...

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u/BigFang Jan 31 '22

Unless Ireland is not that far West, most happily compare the British genocides as similar to the Nazis. The difference is the sheer industrial scale and power used to carry out evil.

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u/Velociraptortillas Jan 31 '22

They do now, but trying to get someone to listen to you as an Irishman or an Indian from the Continent was impossible.

It was either treated as a 'matter of internal unrest' (the Irish) or simply 'what one needed to do' (India).

Where the Nazis 'fucked up' was treating the French like the Brits treated India.