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[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Do you think it plausible that actual white supremacist Neo Nazis might call other people Nazis, despite being fully aware that they are not, simply to further muddle the issue? A sort of, "I know you are, but what am I?" defense, that most of us master somewhere in early childhood?

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Yeah I get that they would try to make noise to hide in. But I imagine that is not the majority of cases where someone is labeled as a nazi. Note this was from 2010, long before Trump entered politics.

And this isn't to say I like, support or side with them it's just people ignore the term after a while of hearing it everywhere for all kinds of things that don't fit