[axedwool]

So in your estimation, Nazi hate is so powerful that even the example of World War 2 and seventy years of progress in racial equality was not enough to inoculate the vast majority of the people of the United States against it -- but passing a law against saying it in public will?

[liberte82]

Yes, it would help. It's been 70 years since WW2 ended and people are fast forgetting its lessons. Take an example, pretty much everyone agrees that ISIS uses the web as an online recruitment tool to radicalize young people and that they are very effective with it. This point is fairly non-controversial. Yet when the same point is made about extreme right-wing movements radicalizing young Americans, these concerns are largely not taken seriously. We expect our youth to be wise, discerning, able to think critically and immune to propaganda in a society that has steadily devalued education for decades.

"Hitler did nothing wrong" is a joke meme, until it isn't.

[ameister14]

I don't see open Nazis having a seat in government in any country where it is legal to advocate Nazi ideologies. On the other hand, Austria and Germany, two countries where that is illegal, have together 5 European MP's from their respective Nazi parties.

[kadenshep]

...because that's where Nazis "originated" from. Just like the U.S. still has KKK members in various positions of authority, while presumably Germany or Austria have no KKK members.

[ebcode]

Apparently you haven't seen Trump.

[ameister14]

I get where you're coming from, but imagine Trump was openly affiliated with Nazis. He would not have been elected.

[ebcode]

Well, I guess it depends on your definition of "open". There is such a thing as an "open secret". And I think we all know which side of the fence Trump is on.