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[–]Femaleisnthateful 24 insightful - 1 fun24 insightful - 0 fun25 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

You're right. The Nazi business is a sideshow. It's OK to call people Nazis nowadays, especially if you're on the Left. No one seems to remember what real Nazism is anymore, or remember that the Nazis were defeated in WWII, which was a while ago.

Corporations are waking up to the fact that they've been giving Stonewall tons of money in order for Stonewall to use these corporations as arms of its own lobbying agenda, rather than providing a service that benefits the corporations. Now the word is out that Stonewall is providing factually incorrect, even illegal advice, and that a relationship with them is a legal liability.

[–]reluctant_commenter 20 insightful - 1 fun20 insightful - 0 fun21 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Corporations are waking up to the fact that they've been giving Stonewall tons of money in order for Stonewall to use these corporations as arms of its own lobbying agenda, rather than providing a service that benefits the corporations.

Lol. Very true. It is a little dark, although beneficial for us, that corporations that hold so much power are cutting off a homophobic lobbying group simply because that lobbying group is threatening their profit/bottom line. I would not expect a corporation to do otherwise, of course, it's just a little sad to think about... none of them would have rejected Stonewall if Stonewall were still helping their bottom line.

[–]bopomofodojo 14 insightful - 2 fun14 insightful - 1 fun15 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

real Nazism is anymore, or remember that the Nazis were defeated in WWII

This is a pretty shitty take. An ideology does not simply magically vanish into history just because an implementation of it (and its original leader) was defeated. Thousands of literal SS officers were insta-forgiven by the US in Operation Paperclip, for instance.

Nazis, people subscribing to the ideology of National Socialism as espoused by Adolf Hitler in 1920's through 1940's Germany, are absolutely a thing today. Trying to do the "but they're not actually 'Nazis' because they're not literally Germans in 1945" is obtuse and intentionally distracting from the issue at hand.

Is the term "[literal] Nazi" misused, yes. Does that mean that anyone and everyone isn't a Nazi, no.

[–]PatsyStoneMaverique 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's way off-topic for this sub, but where Nazis ended up and what type of political groups they ended up influencing is a fascinating subject! If you brought that up on Saidit proper you'd get a great thread going.