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It's sad but he's not wrong. Nazi has been used on so many people I've lost count and people wonder why it has lost effect
The image depicts a guy in a nazi unform, doing a nazi salute. It's a nazi.
I know, it's the response from red shirt. He doesn't listen to the guy calling out the nazi, explaining how it's probably just overexaggeration.
It's similar to the ending of the boy who cried wolf. It's not that most people like wolves, or side with wolves, or think wolves aren't a threat. It's the person that that yells wolf is ignored when the real deal comes around.
I don't like nazis. At all. But there is certainly an argument that the term had been used too loosely (I was just called one in this comment section ffs) and now people are making nazi salutes in DC and are being ignored.
No we all said watch the fuck out the nazis are buying up everything and even wrote a nazi playbook. The fuckin wolf was real all along. Fucking morons just decided to ignore. The boy lied in the story. He didn't lie here.
You personally? Sure. But there have been people online misusing the word (and similar things) for fucking ages, going back at least as far as 2010.
This goes back a lot farther than the last election campaign, farther back than Trump's first "reign", farther back than his first campaign even.
Background on Jon Stewart for those unaware of him
Jon Stewart has been out of the public eye for a long time, so I expect there's some people around unaware of his work. Did a comedy news show for years where he tore into the bullshit going on in the world, in the news, and in news orgs like Fox hiding behind a false "both sides" narrative back when they still cared enough to fake it. He got Crossfire cancelled when they were stupid enough to invite him on for an interview and were shocked that he wasn't willing to be a comedian on a show that claimed to be real news and he instead systematically and thoroughly called them out as the travesty they were.Jon Fucking Stewart called out the dilution of labels through overuse in his closing speech at the Rally to Restore Sanity in 2010. The rally done as a reaction to the Tea Party rally in D.C.
That is to highlight that the "boy who cried wolf" shit was happening all the way back then and was already a big problem.
People didn't get the fucking message, which gave cover for the real racists and nazis to slither around and significantly helped to get us where we are today.
Where an over rich manchild clearly on some sort of substances can give two half assed sieg heils, and then follow it up with the most half assed excuse during a fucking presidential inauguration and instead of being tackled by security and hauled the fuck off never to be seen again, people are sitting around giving him the benefit of the doubt.
This isn't a case of the boy crying wolf. You fucks have been warned and have ignored the warnings. Now here we are.
Jon Stewart called out the dilution of labels like racist etc in his closing speech of the 2010 Rally to Restore Sanity. It was a problem all the way back then.
By the time you started yelling about the real dangers, the boy who cried first had already came and went. The sheep were fine. The boy grew up, got a decent paying job amd moved out of the state. Another boy came by yelling the same thing. Still no wolves. Sheep still fine. Repeat more times than you can count.
It's not your fault, but it's stupid as hell to pretend that people didn't start taking those labels less seriously due to overuse.
No, he's still wrong. Even if he has been conditioned to ignore the term because of overuse of the term, he's still wrong.
The people who ignored the boy the third time he cried wolf were wrong. The proof they were wrong is that they lost their sheep. The moral of the story isn't "don't listen when little boys cry wolf three times and the first two times turn out to be false." The moral is "don't cry wolf when there is no wolf or people will stop listening to you."
So you can argue that the people who conditioned red shirt not too look were wrong, i.e. "the boy who cried Nazi", but in this case red shirt is most definitely wrong.
That is exactly what I am trying to convey, thank you.
Red shirt is wrong for ignoring the pointing person. The person pointing out the nazi is right. I am trying to argue that the person pointing out the nazi and the people who conditioned red shirt to the point of ignoring a legitimate cry are not the same and ultimately did not help things.
This people we said where moving towards nazism are now doing Nazi salutes.
Clearly it is our fault for being smart enough to see what was happening and sounding the alarm!
It's take a true smooth brain to always find the way to blame the intellectuals for their own abhorent behavior.
I'm guessing the next stage here is blaming us for why you and them became Nazi. We clearly gave you no other choice. You and them are the real victims here.
Crying wolf...again. The guy in the comic has to specify "literally a nazi" because using the regular word's meaning has been diluted so he has to put emphasis to specify it's a "true" nazi, not just a "vague" nazi.
Yes it's frustrating red shirt won't turn around to see that it is in fact a true, no shit, actual, factual, punchable, dictionary definition of a nazi but that's because the word has been overused. Your reply is proof.
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Bullshit. We've been calling so many people Nazis precisely because they actually turned out to be Nazis. Every single fucking one of them.
If you didn't see it, it's because you were deliberately turning a blind eye.
Do you think it plausible that actual white supremacist Neo Nazis might call other people Nazis, despite being fully aware that they are not, simply to further muddle the issue? A sort of, "I know you are, but what am I?" defense, that most of us master somewhere in early childhood?
Yeah I get that they would try to make noise to hide in. But I imagine that is not the majority of cases where someone is labeled as a nazi. Note this was from 2010, long before Trump entered politics.
And this isn't to say I like, support or side with them it's just people ignore the term after a while of hearing it everywhere for all kinds of things that don't fit
It hasn't lost its effect. It never had an effect to begin with on the people that this cunt was sieg heiling because they are happy to downplay the very real and very obvious fascist elements of the American right. Saying the word Nazi has lost its effect makes this sound like the issue is one of semantics, as though if that word hadn't (wholly and justifiably) been used so much in recent decades that people would now wake up and go, 'Oh fuck, this guy is actually really bad'. But they wouldn't. Because fascists don't think other fascists are bad.