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> it works because we as a society have a visceral negative reaction to some labels. Do you know why we have that reaction? Because of millions upon millions o
by DagAgren 6y ago
> it works because we as a society have a visceral negative reaction to some labels.
Do you know why we have that reaction? Because of millions upon millions of dead, innocent humans. That is what those ideologies lead to. We learned this lesson once, and we learned it very well. We don't want that to happen again. We don't want to let those ideas spread again. We don't want to see the mass graves again they lead to again. We learned that.
Some people have forgotten, though.
- monoideism 6y agoSome people remember the horror of Nazi Germany as well as the horror of the Red Terror, Stalinist Russia, and the Cultural Revolution.
- wnoise 6y agoAll that, and the horrors of McCarthyism too.
- monoideism 6y agoYou're comparing McCarthyism to the Nazi genocide, the Red Terror, the horror of Stalinism and the Cultural Revolution?
- wnoise 6y agoI'm saying it's another authoritarian impulse to squash dissent, yes. Smaller magnitude, sure. But that's exactly why you compare things -- to see what's better or worse.
- sinity 6y agoIDK, I'd say people calling everyone they don't like a Nazi seem like a party which doesn't get it.