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LAS14

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27. That is the important message in the NYT article.

Sun Nov 26, 2017, 06:13 PM

Nov 2017

You can't assume that fascism can't take route among "normal" people. It isn't "normalizing" the beliefs to describe this phenomenon. The most memorable experience for me on a recent trip to Europe was a video at the Documentation Center in Nuremberg. Several elderly people were interviewed about their teenage years in Nuremberg when Hitler was on the rise. It was clear they don't condone what happened. But when they remembered their youth there were smiles on their faces as they described how everyone felt so "together" (gemeinschaft). One woman talked about how wonderful the music was when the parades passed beneath her window, and how her mother flung open the door and offered lodging to out of towners.

It's insidious. It's scary. And we have to look at it clearly, as this article is trying to do.

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People are furious with the New York Times over their normalised profile of a Nazi [View all] Soph0571 Nov 2017 OP

I thought it was going to be about Stephen Miller. Fake news! nt Buns_of_Fire Nov 2017 #1

In order to understand the mentality of American Nazis, you need to understand no_hypocrisy Nov 2017 #2

Then why did the ADL blast it? tenderfoot Nov 2017 #3

Not so much sensitive as short-sighted. no_hypocrisy Nov 2017 #5

This message was self-deleted by its author tenderfoot Nov 2017 #6

Here's another "Short-sighted" opinion from a Bosnian tenderfoot Nov 2017 #7

+1000 paleotn Nov 2017 #13

It actully has been a pattern for sometime throughout the news industry. They were normalizing this still_one Nov 2017 #15

I'm planning a class on the rise of the Third Reich. hedda_foil Nov 2017 #18

Hedda, I'd be delighted to share some titles, but give me a little time no_hypocrisy Nov 2017 #20

You're right. The big question is how he got to that point in the first place. hedda_foil Nov 2017 #25

A starter's list no_hypocrisy Nov 2017 #34

Replying to this to save this list for myself. Decoy of Fenris Nov 2017 #35

This one just came out. no_hypocrisy Nov 2017 #23

Thank you. I have it bookmarked to read. hedda_foil Nov 2017 #24

No! All you need to do to understand the mentality of American Nazis maxrandb Nov 2017 #10

No, it was normalizing him; the writer even admitted he didn't understand the Nazi muriel_volestrangler Nov 2017 #17

This is the USA loyalsister Nov 2017 #21

In normal circumstances, I'd agree Blue_Tires Nov 2017 #36

Michael Brown did not steal cigarettes...I have a subscription to the New York Demsrule86 Nov 2017 #4

I understand nazis. They ARE FUCKING NAZIS ismnotwasm Nov 2017 #8

... blogslut Nov 2017 #9

+1000 paleotn Nov 2017 #12

That! nt Soph0571 Nov 2017 #26

Rise of racisim in America?? paleotn Nov 2017 #11

Yet another Proof of Godwin's Law in action... Wounded Bear Nov 2017 #14

"Preaching the gospel of white natonalism" is just protected free speech in a nation that forgot to Fred Sanders Nov 2017 #16

AMJoy had a good segment on this story Gothmog Nov 2017 #19

Actual Nazis WERE normal people. alarimer Nov 2017 #22

That is the important message in the NYT article. LAS14 Nov 2017 #27

I dont know what you do about people like that alarimer Nov 2017 #31

you nailed it, most Americans would be Good Germans steve2470 Nov 2017 #30

Most did nothing about all the lynchings by the KKK alarimer Nov 2017 #32

excellent point about Jim Crow! nt steve2470 Nov 2017 #33

AM JOY 11,26,17 NYT PUBLISHES PROFILE ON NAZI SYMPATHIZER Gothmog Nov 2017 #28

kick and rec! nt steve2470 Nov 2017 #29