#Nazism vs white supremacy
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a-very-tired-jew · 14 days ago
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Ya'll need to understand that Nazism does not equal White Supremacy.
Ya'll need to understand that Nazi does not mean "generic bad person". I know that here in the USA our history classes tend to overlook the actual ideology of Nazis and summarize it as white supremacy, but that's not the case. The Nazis even split Europe up into races with them at the top of hierarchy. Hence why they could dehumanize the neighboring countries and attack them.
But at the end of the day Nazi's blamed Jews for the corruption of the other races, all of societies ills, and everything bad. Full stop.
A lot of this has been "whitewashed" for one reason or another. Hell, if you go to Brittanica right now you'll see that the one way they describe Nazis is "an evil person who wants to use power to control and harm other people especially because of their race, religion, etc."
Notice how that doesn't mention anything about antisemitism and their reasoning. It's brushing under the rug that Jew hate placed a key and central role in Nazi ideology.
White supremacy doesn't do that. It blames everyone who does not fit its description of "white" as the source of perceived problems.
For example:
The Nazis killed queer people. We know this. However, they blamed Jews for this "corruption".
White supremacists would blame racial minorities in general or a specific one for the "corruption". They would not place the blame solely on Jews.
There are overlaps, of course, in Nazi ideology and white supremacy, with many of the former being adopted by neo-Nazis who are white supremacists of a specific flavor.
But you need to understand that they're not the same.
So when you go around justifying a pogrom, denying that it was a pre-planned attack on Jews, and even say that "They deserved it"... well you're not a white supremacist.
You're a Nazi.
And you sure as shit wouldn't be one to punch a Nazi nowadays. You just want to punch a "bad person".
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