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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 7 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 7 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 7 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 7 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.
Tony Moon 7 years ago
You raise your voice, you become heard and you legitimately prove the "Nazi" belief system is wrong. There will always be ignorance in the world and all we can do is educate it. Do not condone violence against someone because they believe something different than you. You speak up, you educate and you teach tolerance. Nazism is an ignorance of how science works, its an ignorance of how reality works and by using the tactics of the Nazi's to try to "shut them up" simply makes your point less valid. We will always have to prove we exist for a reason, Nazism is not the only hateful belief system out there. But accepting the use of force to prove your point does not make you correct at all.
Grace Barclay 7 years ago
The Nazi's were never ignorant of how science works, they used it to their advantage; the current wave of Neo-Nazism refuses to acknowledge the findings of science. Albert Einstein left Germany as he refused to work for them. The Allies barely had a lock on the mechanics and science of Jets. Read Operation Paperclip - the truth about the USA's sudden knowledge of of making aircraft fly faster, the development of chemicals warfare, etc. The US took some of the most Vicious & inhumane scientists back. Gave them the American Dream, so to speak. Some of those men should have been hanged.
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Night Owl 7 years ago
Well put. Many people don't realize how gradual the rise of facisam and nacizam was. And how widespread the ideology was (even in the US) since much earlier then WWII, during it and after it. The ideology never really died and I'm not sure when it even started. *sigh* Sometimes watching the news and this world (climate change, science, religiones, ideologies...) it sometimes seems we didn't much change at all, and sometimes we're even going in reverse. I know there are changes for the better and I often have to keep reminding myself of that (the most peaceful time in history etc.) but they seem to be really slow.
Doodlebug 7 years ago
I had a social studies teach once who said everything in the world is cyclical. It's much easier to look back at changes throughout history and say, "Yes, of course, X led to Y, and then Y led to Z." Not so much when you're in the middle of it. So identifying and analyzing the swings in politics, ideologies, religion, etc., requires historical context - otherwise we're doomed to do the same dumb s**t over and over again.
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Jameel Aboulhosn 7 years ago
Nazism literally refers SPECIFICALLY to the Nazi's of Weimar Germany. It isn't some mystical word that dates back to the origins of the Swastika. It is a term that came into being BECAUSE of "New socialist"s.
Caroline Espenschied 7 years ago
It is an abbreviation for NATIonalsozialismus" which is is pronounced "Na Z ional" in german.
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Carol Emory 7 years ago
I read and watched documentaries about how the Nazis gained power. It started with "We will educate your kids, we will provide free healthcare and we will make sure you have work." And people voted Hitler in. Then he went to neighboring nations like Austria and made the same promise. And they voted him in. Then he took away the kids to "educate" them in the ways of Nazism to enforce the idea of the master race. His healthcare included institutionalizing anyone deemed imperfect (Eugenics.) And he convinced the Germans that Jews were responsible for the decline in employment leaving ordinary citizens to drag Jews into the streets..beating them, raping them and murdering them out of desperation for work. To think this kind of thing can't happen today is ridiculous. Because it's happening all over again in the USA. It needs to be stopped in it's tracks before it gets out of control. No more Hitlers.
Ladies and Gentlemen 7 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 7 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 7 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 7 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.
Tony Moon 7 years ago
You raise your voice, you become heard and you legitimately prove the "Nazi" belief system is wrong. There will always be ignorance in the world and all we can do is educate it. Do not condone violence against someone because they believe something different than you. You speak up, you educate and you teach tolerance. Nazism is an ignorance of how science works, its an ignorance of how reality works and by using the tactics of the Nazi's to try to "shut them up" simply makes your point less valid. We will always have to prove we exist for a reason, Nazism is not the only hateful belief system out there. But accepting the use of force to prove your point does not make you correct at all.
Grace Barclay 7 years ago
The Nazi's were never ignorant of how science works, they used it to their advantage; the current wave of Neo-Nazism refuses to acknowledge the findings of science. Albert Einstein left Germany as he refused to work for them. The Allies barely had a lock on the mechanics and science of Jets. Read Operation Paperclip - the truth about the USA's sudden knowledge of of making aircraft fly faster, the development of chemicals warfare, etc. The US took some of the most Vicious & inhumane scientists back. Gave them the American Dream, so to speak. Some of those men should have been hanged.
Load More Replies... Night Owl 7 years ago
Well put. Many people don't realize how gradual the rise of facisam and nacizam was. And how widespread the ideology was (even in the US) since much earlier then WWII, during it and after it. The ideology never really died and I'm not sure when it even started. *sigh* Sometimes watching the news and this world (climate change, science, religiones, ideologies...) it sometimes seems we didn't much change at all, and sometimes we're even going in reverse. I know there are changes for the better and I often have to keep reminding myself of that (the most peaceful time in history etc.) but they seem to be really slow.
Doodlebug 7 years ago
I had a social studies teach once who said everything in the world is cyclical. It's much easier to look back at changes throughout history and say, "Yes, of course, X led to Y, and then Y led to Z." Not so much when you're in the middle of it. So identifying and analyzing the swings in politics, ideologies, religion, etc., requires historical context - otherwise we're doomed to do the same dumb s**t over and over again.
Load More Replies... Jameel Aboulhosn 7 years ago
Nazism literally refers SPECIFICALLY to the Nazi's of Weimar Germany. It isn't some mystical word that dates back to the origins of the Swastika. It is a term that came into being BECAUSE of "New socialist"s.
Caroline Espenschied 7 years ago
It is an abbreviation for NATIonalsozialismus" which is is pronounced "Na Z ional" in german.
Load More Replies... Carol Emory 7 years ago
I read and watched documentaries about how the Nazis gained power. It started with "We will educate your kids, we will provide free healthcare and we will make sure you have work." And people voted Hitler in. Then he went to neighboring nations like Austria and made the same promise. And they voted him in. Then he took away the kids to "educate" them in the ways of Nazism to enforce the idea of the master race. His healthcare included institutionalizing anyone deemed imperfect (Eugenics.) And he convinced the Germans that Jews were responsible for the decline in employment leaving ordinary citizens to drag Jews into the streets..beating them, raping them and murdering them out of desperation for work. To think this kind of thing can't happen today is ridiculous. Because it's happening all over again in the USA. It needs to be stopped in it's tracks before it gets out of control. No more Hitlers.
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