[xupybd]

Are neo Nazis still active enough to be a significant part of the conflict around BLM? I was under the impression that while they're hateful and dangerous aholes, there numbers were so low to that interactions with them were rare?

[balancemayvary]

https://twitter.com/VicBergerIV/status/1306805724975046659

This supercut should illustrate the way neo-nazis such as the proud boys [1]

are normalized and swept under the rug. Some 30% of the US voters will enthusiastically support such groups, and another ~20% happily look the other way.

Fascism is like a weed that must be continually demonstrated against. Else you end up with police departments executing their own countrymen in the street, pregnant and naked, gun to the back of the head; convinced that if they don't they "betray their brothers in arms". [2]

It is an insidious ideology brought about by increasingly desperate conditions of the proletariat and stoked by "might makes right" worship of the "glorious leader".

[1] https://www.rawstory.com/2020/11/civil-war-brewing-inside-pr...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Police

Learn from history, because it's already repeating itself.

[xupybd]

Ah I see, the term neo-nazi no longer requires a direct connection to the Nazi ideology.

I tend to reserve the label for those that follow the philosophy's that inspired the Nazis such as the white supremacists Houston Stewart Chamberlain. I'd expect them to hold to racial purity beliefs.

I guess language changes but it does seem imprecise.

I'd say one of the dangers history teaches is the mistake of painting the other tribe as a monster. When you no longer see them as human you become a monster yourself and can justify ugly behavior.

The other is a fellow human capable of change, of redemption.