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HelpHa, you mentioned it!
in reply to a message by Tippins
Joseph!
I've been worried about it for a long, long time. I think I even wrote once about my problem with the large number of jerks named Joseph - McCarthy, Göbbels, Stalin... Many names are as popular as Joseph, but not every of them has such a list of people I, um, dislike.
Joseph is a name a name many Nazis had. It is also one of the most Jewish-considered names in Russia.
(Much OT, but I find that important, when it comes to discussing "Nazi" names, too.)
Being honest, I am tired of the whole Nazi-issue. It seems to be that people associate everything bad with Nazism and think of it as it was a fairy tale gotten real for a few seconds and then disappeared – they’re scared of it, but see only a few of its many attitudes.
By thinking about Nazism as kind of evil force and so getting far away from even trying to understand it’s causes, we lose the possibility to notice anything that could end up with Nazism in today's world, because as everything evil and “not quite real”, Nazism is in the past. Mm, how to explain… Why do people like watching photos where something horrible happens? Right, because a photo is always past and you can’t do anything to change the situation in it. You just watch and feel sorry that happened – that’s even nice because you don’t need to take any responsibility. The same thing is with Nazism.
And, by associating Nazism with Hitler, swastika, solider uniforms, and German language you forget the idea that was behind it - and, again, you will not see Nazi attitudes in today's world. And, this is a question that has always interested me - if there weren't any concentration camps, would people still think Nazis are bad? That bad? They were actually near to sterilize Jews instead of killing them. Would everyone consider Nazis better if they just sterilized them?
I find that very scaring. Nazism is much more than Holocaust and Hitler. And by underlining those things we get more and more far away from recognizing Nazism, and it will have the new chance to come. It is not about Hitler (and not even Himmler, who I find much worse than Hitler), it is about the people who are ready to support him.
I've been worried about it for a long, long time. I think I even wrote once about my problem with the large number of jerks named Joseph - McCarthy, Göbbels, Stalin... Many names are as popular as Joseph, but not every of them has such a list of people I, um, dislike.
Joseph is a name a name many Nazis had. It is also one of the most Jewish-considered names in Russia.
(Much OT, but I find that important, when it comes to discussing "Nazi" names, too.)
Being honest, I am tired of the whole Nazi-issue. It seems to be that people associate everything bad with Nazism and think of it as it was a fairy tale gotten real for a few seconds and then disappeared – they’re scared of it, but see only a few of its many attitudes.
By thinking about Nazism as kind of evil force and so getting far away from even trying to understand it’s causes, we lose the possibility to notice anything that could end up with Nazism in today's world, because as everything evil and “not quite real”, Nazism is in the past. Mm, how to explain… Why do people like watching photos where something horrible happens? Right, because a photo is always past and you can’t do anything to change the situation in it. You just watch and feel sorry that happened – that’s even nice because you don’t need to take any responsibility. The same thing is with Nazism.
And, by associating Nazism with Hitler, swastika, solider uniforms, and German language you forget the idea that was behind it - and, again, you will not see Nazi attitudes in today's world. And, this is a question that has always interested me - if there weren't any concentration camps, would people still think Nazis are bad? That bad? They were actually near to sterilize Jews instead of killing them. Would everyone consider Nazis better if they just sterilized them?
I find that very scaring. Nazism is much more than Holocaust and Hitler. And by underlining those things we get more and more far away from recognizing Nazism, and it will have the new chance to come. It is not about Hitler (and not even Himmler, who I find much worse than Hitler), it is about the people who are ready to support him.
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