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Why don't Nazis want to be called (Original Post)
malaise
22 hrs ago
OP
Because calling themselves "Patriots" , "Nationalists", and "Republicans" sells better to the all American Rubes.
Ping Tung
22 hrs ago
#6
A tax is to a tariff as a Nazi is to a: Republican? White Nationalist? Trumpster? All of the above? nt
AnotherMother4Peace
22 hrs ago
#8
SheltieLover
(69,632 posts)1. Good question!


Moostache
(10,578 posts)2. I don't give a single fuck what they want.
Walk like a Nazi...
Talk like a Nazi...
Hand salute like a Nazi...
Guess what?
That might just be a Nazi, and I am honoring their choice to identify as a Nazi by calling them exactly what they are, period.
unblock
(55,217 posts)3. Because that word has a negative image.
Eventually, they might try to rehabilitate that word and adopt it, or at least celebrate it.
But they clearly admire hitler and his ilk. They'd use the term if it didn't have such a bad image.
bucolic_frolic
(50,794 posts)4. The term has baggage so they used a different term.
It's not that they dislike the term, it's that their reputation might precede them and prevent attainment of their racist goals and plunder.
C_U_L8R
(47,475 posts)5. Because they're Trumpzis ?
Ping Tung
(2,615 posts)6. Because calling themselves "Patriots" , "Nationalists", and "Republicans" sells better to the all American Rubes.
maveric
(16,884 posts)7. All morons hate it when you call them morons.
AnotherMother4Peace
(4,755 posts)8. A tax is to a tariff as a Nazi is to a: Republican? White Nationalist? Trumpster? All of the above? nt