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I mean it is pearl clutching if the support for Hitler is a very small portion of the Young Republicans. You can find crazy people in any population of people. There are blacks who believe the Natiin of Islam’s Yacuub theory. There are outright communists on the left. There are Christian nationalists who want to make other religions illegal. I find the isolated demands for decorum to be a bit silly simply because it’s always the right who has to justify and denounce its crazy people while the left gets a complete pass. Yes, Nazis are a problem, yes we should denounce them, but im still waiting for democrats to be forced to answer for: communists, woke crazies, “the resistance” (who insist that the current administration is “the regime” to be opposed at all costs), and anti-religious zealots. It doesn’t happen. It’s just the right told to denounce crazies. Kamala was never asked about groups like “Refuse Fascism” that posit that MAGA is fascism. They are never asked to tone down the rhetoric or denounce crazies as the price of being seen as respectable. Why should the GOP be asked to pre-smear itself with craziness (by calling attention to it) when it’s so one sided? It’s the “have you stopped beating your wife” thing on a political scale. To answer is to smear yourself.
Who spend most of their time denouncing each other.
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I would find even hipster irony declarations of support for Hitler to be a step too far, but then I'm old. I'm out of touch. I'm two generations behind the bright young things of today and the tearing down of conventions because they stifle our individual liberties and oppress wimmen'n'minorities.
Good taste has long ago been dumped out with everything else in the bathwater, and relabelled tone policing, which is a sin because it means you are trying to restrict the expression of lived experience of wimmen'n'minorities.
These are the very same people who ripped down that fence, they don't get to be appalled when the bull runs out of the field straight at them.
I’m not in favor of even hipsters ironically Nazi-posting, in case I wasn’t clear. My issue is that the conservative movement is expected to denounce their lizard-coefficient portion of the movement, while it doesn’t happen for other groups. The Left can be pretty antisemitic in its own right. There are “pro-Palestine” people who will repeat every trope that the old-school Nazis did (own the media and Hollywood, lie constantly, cry out in pain as the strike you, etc.) but nobody on the mainstream left is asked about it. And even getting away from that, the level of hate for even regular Christians and conservatives is pretty far beyond any good taste or social norms. A guy on the Democratic side got caught texting that he wanted to kill the wife and son of his political opponent. Not only are mainstream democrats not asked to denounce it, the man still has the support of the party. It’s a one sided thing. Both sides have rare extremist elements; all groups do. But it’s very obvious that there’s a KTO KEGO dynamic here where democrats can ignore or even support their fringe movements without being blamed for them. No one sticks a microphone In Kamala’s face asking her about antisemitism on the left, communism.
The dispute is:
Person on left: "if you hold view A/believe thing B/do not agree with me on position C, you are a Nazi!"
The idea is "this is so terrible an accusation, any person wanting to be thought of as good or on the right, decent side will be so appalled, they will immediately change their views and drop the Nazi opinions".
The outcome, though, is "because everything and everyone has been called a Nazi, the sting of the accusation has faded". Hence the actual result is:
Person on right: "That makes me a Nazi? Guess I'm a Nazi, then!"
Outcome: person on left faints all over the place about "OMG, the righties really are Nazis! This person just came right out and admitted they were a Nazi!"
But the person on the right is thinking "I have good and sufficient reasons, in my opinion, to hold the views I do. Therefore, I am not going to shift my beliefs merely on the grounds of being called a bad name. I don't care if you think I'm a Nazi, I know I'm not a Nazi, so go right ahead and call me one; I don't care, it does not affect me, you might as well call me a lizard person from the planet Zogabong".
The specific case here appears to be closer to:
Thanks for making my point for me. Don't hurt your backside as you plop down on the fainting couch.
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