this post was submitted on 16 Jul 2025
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If 'the blacks' have removed power from the n-word, then why can the hosts still not say it? Is it because words do still hold powerful meaning and it's the context that gives it that meaning? And that there is still no context in which the word Nazi can be reclaimed in the same way racial slurs have been?
Nazis were clearly the victim of an anti-Nazi agenda.
Also the way he says the blacks at 0:12 is... interesting...
Nazis are the real victims in all of this, clearly.
It wouldn't even make sense to say "reclaim" because it's not like the meaning of "Nazi" ever changed. It means what it's always meant and will likely always meant; it's just that what it means is fucking abhorrent so people don't tend to want to be described by it.
Seems like the hope is to dilute it down, so that it doesn't have the same impact. Which may or may not work with the base, but I'm reasonably confident a majority of people will never not see Nazism as a super bad thing.
more than not its trying to normalize the word "nazi" so it doesnt mean anything.
also because a white person is saying the n-word too.