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I partially agree with you, but would shift 80% of the blame for the establishment of this environment to the left. The left made Nazis cool again, by being simultaneously awful and anti Nazi. 99% of people's experience with Nazism is bad people on the left equivocating between Nazis and normal people on the right. If Trump is a Nazi, and Elon Musk is a Nazi, and Joe Rogan is a Nazi, then someone who likes all of those guys is going to think Nazis are pretty cool. Or at least, make jokes in that direction. People are going to feel comfortable pretending to be a Nazi, because what's the worst that's going to happen, some angry leftist is going to accuse you of being a Nazi? They were already going to do that just by you not supporting open borders.
When you spend ten years crying wolf, and telling everyone all their pet dogs are wolves, don't be surprised when kids grow up thinking wolves are cool, and the dog lovers start wearing wolf shirts and howling to mock you.
Fair enough, but there might be a substantial percentage of young people on the right (though it might be approximately zero for all I know) who want to round up all the jews and exterminate them and return all the blacks to chains. At least they claim this is what they want, or so the rumor goes.
Evidently we can't call these people Nazis because the term's become meaningless and, besides, some kids get off on being shocking. So the discussion has essentially gone nowhere. Though now I'm curious how many people here are actually supportive of an American Jewish genocide or a return to legal private slavery or of some other course of action that is way, way, waaaaay outside the Overton window and just a minute ago was super-duper-ultra-taboo. The discussion of those particulars can't really be derailed by someone's individual definition of what he thinks a Nazi is.
No, the problem is that you lose all the oomph when you also use that word for anyone who works out and doesn't hate themselves. It's archetypal motte and bailey arguing. Wanting to kill all the Jews is terrible, but also insanely fringe. Working out is much, much more common, so by tactically conflating the two, you can pretend that the number of people who want to kill all the Jews is much larger.
Meanwhile, a third of the left is over there chanting "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be Arab".
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Everyone's a little bit Nazi
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“If you continually tell people that everything they want is fascism, they’ll eventually come to the conclusion that fascism is everything they want.”
Or as Sh0eonhead comically put it in a clip I can’t find;
“Oh wow, that sounds great! You’re telling me this is fascism? Uh, waiter! More fascism please!”
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