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by bongoman37 1919 days ago
So its interesting that books like 'Mein Kampf' are fine and available in 10s of translations but books like above are banned.
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One could argue that anyone can get their hands on a (pirated) copy of any books. But with Amazon (or other sellers) at least you have collected data on who reads what, which may become useful to law enforcement, someday.
It tells you a lot about the real battlefield (pun intended).

For all the talk about white supremacy, no one is really concerned about a resurgence of the Nazi movement in America, otherwise they would not let seminal works of the most prominent Nazi freely circulate.

Germany, which has a real (though fringe) neo-Nazi movement, spends a lot of effort on suppressing Nazi symbolism and rooting out neo-Nazis from police and Bundeswehr - which is indicative of the fact that they consider the risk serious.

Know your enemy.
Not for long.

It's hilarious that liberals from SF and NYC will manage to make fascism cool.

Hitler is dead as a political force, the argument over who gets to determine what is deviant and what is normal is very much still in play.
I wish I could share your confidence about him being as dead politically as he is physically.
practically no one takes hitler seriously and the handful of counter-examples are marginalized, mentally ill, and socially outcast. but more importantly, hitler's thought is not influential among anyone except to see how he got so far making so many mistakes. hitler's thought is not even influential among self-identified neo-nazis except as a sort of figurehead. I wouldn't expect you to agree with me until you see this for yourself.
It may seem so if the epithet frequently misses its mark, which is inevitable when it's so casually abused.
> hitler's thought is not even influential among self-identified neo-nazis except as a sort of figurehead. I wouldn't expect you to agree with me until you see this for yourself.

Then allow me to surprise you: My first draft was trying to compare the use of Nazi iconography to Che Guevara T-Shirts, I deleted that paragraph because I wasn’t entirely sure what point I was trying to make with the comparison.