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This Man’s Twitter Thread Proves Why Calling Someone A ‘Nazi’ Is Not A Slur
It’s been nearly 100 years since the Nazi party rose to power, resulting in one of the biggest tragedies the world has ever seen. Today we are witnessing a new rise of people who sympathise with Nazi ideology, making us wonder: haven’t we learned anything from history?
It calls for educated people to take a stand, and remind people of the most important details of the Nazi reality. This is exactly what writer and engineer Yonatan Zunger did. Shortly after the violent far-right rally in Charlottesville which happened last year, he wrote a Twitter thread explaining exactly what Nazi ideology is, and why it’s alright to call someone Nazi if they clearly sympathize with this ideology. Yonatan’s thread quickly went viral, proving how important this topic is today. Scroll below to read the thread!
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Writer and engineer Yonatan Zunger took to Twitter to explain what Nazi ideology is, and why it’s alright to call someone Nazi if they sympathize with this ideology
Source: http://www.centerforpolitics.org
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Ladies and Gentlemen 6 years ago
Couple of years back, at my friends workplace, there was this guy who was diagnosed with AIDS, in just few months he became too frail and confined 2 someone who he trusted as friend that what is the issue. That friend spread the 'news' across office like wildfire and soon there were 2 groups in office of different stance, one who were sympathetic and understood & had no problem, one very small group consist of his direct manager who started seeing this bloke as some abomination and conspired against him. One very old lady(79 YO), who use to do small tasks like filling up coffee machine etc., soon started a campaign, branding the people in second group as Nazi's. Whole floor suddenly voiced in favor of ill bloke and his manager got fired for partial behavior. That's how you fight such thing. Raise your voice! Don't be afraid no matter how small you think you are.
Sabine Unter 6 years ago
This is great, brilliant explanation for actual Nazis. This man is stating that he isn't using Nazi to mean people he disagrees with, yet demonstrates that thhis isn't quite the case. The pro "punch a Nazi" stance is what I'm meaning. The Nazis convinced the German people to turn upon the Jewish population by painting the Jews as money hoarders that are oppressing Germans and keeping them down. In modern times, a part of NEO-Nazi ideology is that their views mean that they are - like the hard working German people - oppressed. By punching them, you're actually reinforcing this view, making their voices heard more, turning people to them as part of their ideology is now proven correct in their mind. Also with the whole "punch a Nazi" thing, it is used by groups such as Antifa to excuse their actions - a woman breaking a window into a discussion armed with a garotte, a guy who had his head cracked with a bike lock when calling for the riot to end, a dude bludgeoned for carring a US flag.
chi-wei shen 6 years ago
Yonatan Zunger makes one evil mistake. This entire punch-a-nazi thing means he condones violent behavior against people who only have committed thought crimes. Then he continues to say that historically there was only one solution for Nazis without explaining what he really recommends. Modern Nazis, even if they call themselves Nazis, didn’t commit the crimes during WWII. Zunger, however, convicts them for their thoughts and suggests violent crimes against them as if they have been convicted. And this is not only a big mistake, it is outright evil. He provides a justification for violent hate groups like Antifa. Somehow he does what Nazis are supposed to do by introducing a new dogma allowing violence against political opponents. People like Zunger are the new prophets of fascism, only this time fascism can be found at the left side and not on the right side of the political spectrum.
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Beks Czar 6 years ago
I remember making a comment that Trump's campaign in 15/16 started sounding an awful lot like nazism. Someone commented that he wasn't killing people so shut up. I got so mad and read them the riot, to go read a history book. Hitler didn't just wake up on September 1, 1939 and declare Jews evil and go to war. He gradually built it up over years, especially after the great depression and propaganda that he could make Germany great again. It pisses me off that most people, in the United states, have access to information literally in their hand and they choose to be ignorant.
Ladies and Gentlemen 6 years ago
Couple of years back, at my friends workplace, there was this guy who was diagnosed with AIDS, in just few months he became too frail and confined 2 someone who he trusted as friend that what is the issue. That friend spread the 'news' across office like wildfire and soon there were 2 groups in office of different stance, one who were sympathetic and understood & had no problem, one very small group consist of his direct manager who started seeing this bloke as some abomination and conspired against him. One very old lady(79 YO), who use to do small tasks like filling up coffee machine etc., soon started a campaign, branding the people in second group as Nazi's. Whole floor suddenly voiced in favor of ill bloke and his manager got fired for partial behavior. That's how you fight such thing. Raise your voice! Don't be afraid no matter how small you think you are.
Sabine Unter 6 years ago
This is great, brilliant explanation for actual Nazis. This man is stating that he isn't using Nazi to mean people he disagrees with, yet demonstrates that thhis isn't quite the case. The pro "punch a Nazi" stance is what I'm meaning. The Nazis convinced the German people to turn upon the Jewish population by painting the Jews as money hoarders that are oppressing Germans and keeping them down. In modern times, a part of NEO-Nazi ideology is that their views mean that they are - like the hard working German people - oppressed. By punching them, you're actually reinforcing this view, making their voices heard more, turning people to them as part of their ideology is now proven correct in their mind. Also with the whole "punch a Nazi" thing, it is used by groups such as Antifa to excuse their actions - a woman breaking a window into a discussion armed with a garotte, a guy who had his head cracked with a bike lock when calling for the riot to end, a dude bludgeoned for carring a US flag.
chi-wei shen 6 years ago
Yonatan Zunger makes one evil mistake. This entire punch-a-nazi thing means he condones violent behavior against people who only have committed thought crimes. Then he continues to say that historically there was only one solution for Nazis without explaining what he really recommends. Modern Nazis, even if they call themselves Nazis, didn’t commit the crimes during WWII. Zunger, however, convicts them for their thoughts and suggests violent crimes against them as if they have been convicted. And this is not only a big mistake, it is outright evil. He provides a justification for violent hate groups like Antifa. Somehow he does what Nazis are supposed to do by introducing a new dogma allowing violence against political opponents. People like Zunger are the new prophets of fascism, only this time fascism can be found at the left side and not on the right side of the political spectrum.
Load More Replies... Beks Czar 6 years ago
I remember making a comment that Trump's campaign in 15/16 started sounding an awful lot like nazism. Someone commented that he wasn't killing people so shut up. I got so mad and read them the riot, to go read a history book. Hitler didn't just wake up on September 1, 1939 and declare Jews evil and go to war. He gradually built it up over years, especially after the great depression and propaganda that he could make Germany great again. It pisses me off that most people, in the United states, have access to information literally in their hand and they choose to be ignorant.
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