Do we need to keep the "Make X Great Again" meme alive? Even tongue-in-cheek, even with recent use by dead-end white supremacists as a dog whistle, this is a literal Nazi-ism.
Can we just put it to bed already?
Can we just put it to bed already?
You didn't think this joke was funny, and that's fine. I thought it was funny, and that's fine.
Calling it a "Nazi-ism", is also fine, but if that means he shouldn't be allowed to say it, that is not fine.
See the following picture, it kinda captures the point:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FrrVOoFXoAEOWYe?format=jpg&name=...
What do you mean? "Exactly what a countryside simpleton ("Ignaz", at the time and place) would adopt as a stance"?!
Somebody takes an innocent expression and tries to taint it, you do your part in deflating the tainted use, you renormalize - that's what you are supposed to do. The article author uses irony.
Are you referring to the roughly 50% of the country who voted for, and according to current polls slightly over that who plan on voting for former president Trump?
That's a mighty broad brush you're painting with there.
To be accurate, ~29% of eligible voters, from ~47% of the vote with ~63% turnout.
And of course millions of people in the country are ineligible to vote, the majority of whom are youths.
74 million is a large number nonetheless. Roughly 22% of the population.
Agreed.
> this is a literal Nazi-ism
Uh…what? I’m struggling to recall the locations of the concentration camps in the USA.
We also shouldn’t keep the guy I don’t like is Hitler meme alive.
My reply was to the above statement.
First, Hitler rose to power by appealing to workers (despite actually being pro business). He broke the law and was put on trial, but this only caused his support to increase.
On the basis of his celebrity he was able to raise money and win election to government. He went on to use the Reichstag fire as a pretext for taking over the government he was ostensibly there to serve.
So it’s intellectually fine to draw parallels between Nazi Germany and the extreme right in the US because those parallels really do exist.
It’s the diminution of these parallels that I find disturbing. Such as the use of a divisive political symbol in a technical article.