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ORIGINAL: Made2Obey

Good people are tolerant of those with differing views.

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ORIGINAL: PeonForHer

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Good people are tolerant of those with differing views.

They weren't in 1939 - and thank God for that.

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ORIGINAL: tamaka

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ORIGINAL: PeonForHer

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Good people are tolerant of those with differing views.

They weren't in 1939 - and thank God for that.

But what if a nazi saved a kitten stuck up in a tree? Lol.

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ORIGINAL: bounty44

from a post I had back in February:

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This definition reflects the fact that Nazis were, in fact, both fascists and of the political left. They were the “National Socialist German Workers Party,” which favored a heavy-handed government in business and the personal lives of its citizens.

The authoritarian government of Nazi Germany not only oppressed opposing political views and used violence to enforce it, they supported a powerful central government which heaped social benefits on its citizens. The second part of Nazism is the “socialist” part, which is very similar to what the modern American political left advocates. For all their bluster to the contrary, Hitler was a man of the extreme left, and so was fellow fascist and Axis Powers member Benito Mussolini.
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I just read that Hitler disliked the term "Nazi' , because where he came from, it was a term used for a simple peasant..................rather like the Brits use the term 'Hayseed'

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ORIGINAL: bounty44

from a post I had back in February:

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This definition reflects the fact that Nazis were, in fact, both fascists and of the political left. They were the “National Socialist German Workers Party,” which favored a heavy-handed government in business and the personal lives of its citizens.

The authoritarian government of Nazi Germany not only oppressed opposing political views and used violence to enforce it, they supported a powerful central government which heaped social benefits on its citizens. The second part of Nazism is the “socialist” part, which is very similar to what the modern American political left advocates. For all their bluster to the contrary, Hitler was a man of the extreme left, and so was fellow fascist and Axis Powers member Benito Mussolini.
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If I remember correctly every time you post that nonsense you ignore all evidence to the contrary and instead repost it again and again - but it is still nonsense.

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I just read that Hitler disliked the term "Nazi' , because where he came from, it was a term used for a simple peasant..................rather like the Brits use the term 'Hayseed'

Nazi was Bavarian/Austrian short for Ignaz (Ignatius) which was a rather common name among Catholics and Jews alike.
It fell out of fashion after that.

Nazi for follower of the Hitler party was widespread before and after '33, too.

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ORIGINAL: tamaka

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ORIGINAL: PeonForHer

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Good people are tolerant of those with differing views.

They weren't in 1939 - and thank God for that.

But what if a nazi saved a kitten stuck up in a tree? Lol.

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ORIGINAL: blnymph

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ORIGINAL: Dvr22999874

I just read that Hitler disliked the term "Nazi' , because where he came from, it was a term used for a simple peasant..................rather like the Brits use the term 'Hayseed'

Nazi was Bavarian/Austrian short for Ignaz (Ignatius) which was a rather common name among Catholics and Jews alike.
It fell out of fashion after that.

Nazi for follower of the Hitler party was widespread before and after '33, too.

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Btw: has anyone read "Homage to Catalonia"?

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As shown above in many languages including German many words have more than one meaning. So had the term "Nazi." History and politics have changed that.

Spekuliert nicht über die Bedeutung von Wörtern in anderen Sprachen, wenn ihr die betreffenden Sprachen nicht beherrscht.

Btw: has anyone read "Homage to Catalonia"?

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Sorry, but what has the Spanish Revolution got to do with the Nazi movement and those fighting the Nazi movement? The Spanish Revolution was a social revolution. Antifa is fighting for racial equality. I mean, I think we can safely say that Orwell would have been on the side of Sanders or Corbyn but he was also rather fond of Nazism. http://www.bbk.ac.uk/hiddenpersuaders/blog/orwell-post-truth-politics/

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Sorry, but what has the Spanish Revolution got to do with the Nazi movement and those fighting the Nazi movement? The Spanish Revolution was a social revolution. Antifa is fighting for racial equality. I mean, I think we can safely say that Orwell would have been on the side of Sanders or Corbyn but he was also rather fond of Nazism. http://www.bbk.ac.uk/hiddenpersuaders/blog/orwell-post-truth-politics/

I don't think that's what the article's saying. The author of it thinks that Orwell saw something in Hitler and Nazism that was appealing - something along the lines of 'the devil has all the best tunes - we should take a few of them' ... but, nonetheless, Orwell still wanted rid of Hitler:

"In a 1940 review of the English edition of Mein Kampf, Orwell underlined Hitler’s emotional appeal – drawing attention to a master of ‘post-truth’ politics before the term was even invented. “I should like to put it on record”, he wrote, “that I have never been able to dislike Hitler…I have reflected that I would certainly kill him if I could get within reach of him, but that I could feel no personal animosity. The fact is that there is something deeply appealing about him.”

Orwell was like a lot of others at the time: he was horrified at the mass support for Nazism - a mass support that went the opposite way, politically, to the way it was expected to go. One of the key things Left thinkers did back then - in a big hurry, too - was try to work out 'what those Nazis have got that we haven't got'.