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[–]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.