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[–] MyBrainHurts@piefed.ca 187 points 2 days ago (72 children)

Ehhhhhhhhhh. It's more the picture of Charlie Kirk.

To put this in the context in which I imagine the Right would see it, they don't believe Kirk was a Nazi, that's a slur the Left uses. If someone had a picture of a drag Queen getting shot and had "Pedophile lives don't matter" (common meme on the Right is the lgbtq community are pedophiles etc) on the Left, we'd probably say they want to kill us, even though (hopefully!) none of us identify as pedophiles.

[–] lectricleopard@lemmy.world 28 points 2 days ago (10 children)

I would take exception to the pedophile accusation too though. Libs of tik tok is a Jewish woman. You'd think she'd want to say, "Im not a nazi either."

[–] Greddan@feddit.org 9 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Hatred of jews isn't what makes someone a Nazi. That was always more of a Christian thing in Europe. Cult infighting. It's unfortunate that education on the rise of the third reich is so focused on the killing of the jews. Maybe we wouldn't be in this situation today if people actually knew what a Nazi/Fascist is.

[–] Bloefz@lemmy.world -3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

From what I've read about the Nazis I don't think they were very religious. Makes sense too, if you are a fascist regime you want your leader to be the top dog, not some guy in the sky. Hitler, their fuhrer was their god.

But yeah I wouldn't really define them by their antisemitism. The jews were just the minority they picked to demonise. I think fascism is defined by:

  • Creating a cult-like society where the narrative is strictly regulated and any deviation heavily punished
  • Setting their society apart from others ("us vs them") and demonising minorities (in their case the jews but they were not the only ones, LGBTQ and people with mental health issues and physical disabilities too!)
  • Extreme nationalism, exceptionalism and glorification of country and its leader
  • Military imperialism (fed by the above point of nationalism, to give the soldiers a cause to fight for) and self-enrichment of its leaders

But this is how I see it, I kinda wonder now what the official definition is.

[–] reddifuge@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

From what I studied, the majority were indeed conservative Christians.

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