• Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 hours ago

    “The German Nazi Party adopted and developed several racial hierarchical categorizations as an important part of its fascist ideology (Nazism) in order to justify enslavement, extermination, ethnic persecution and other atrocities against ethnicities which it deemed genetically or culturally inferior. The Aryan race is a pseudoscientific concept that emerged in the late-19th century to describe people who descend from the Proto-Indo-Europeans as a racial grouping and it was accepted by Nazi thinkers. The Nazis considered the putative “Aryan race” a superior “master race” with Germanic peoples as representative of Nordic race being best branch” (Source)

    In their ideology, German people and Arian Race were the same thing, same as Zionists conflate Israeli with Jewish.

    All you proved with your decontextualized quote is that Nazis also claimed to support Germans (which makes sense, as ethno-Fascists are a kind of Fascist hence also use the “love of the nation” in their speeches). That doesn’t disprove that they had an ideology of racial superiority, saw other ethnicities as inferiors and committed Genocide along ethnic lines which is what makes the not merely Fascists but actually Nazis (and the reason why people remember them still, whilst almost nobody remembers the parties of the traditional Fascists such as Mussolini or Franco).

    To back your claims that Trump is a Nazi rather than “just” a traditional Fascist, you need to show that he has the kind additional ideology elements that made the Nazis be something else (much much worse) than merely Fascists and that’s the whole rabid violent racism thing.

    • davel [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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      35 minutes ago

      I don’t know why this distinction without a difference is a hill you want to die on. In terms of fighting fascists—which is all that matters—there’s nothing to be gained by distinguishing between Nazism and sparkling fascism. People who subscribe to Nazi exceptionalism don’t understand what fascism is, what its function is and for whom it functions (hint: it functions for the capitalist class, as a false revolution).

      https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Fascism

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      2 hours ago

      I don’t owe you anything, and your sophistry is embarrassing. Why would Trump refer to his people’s blood being poisoned by immigrants if he didn’t consider immigrants inherently inferior? Do you consider labeling other ethnicities as being poisonous to be a neutral statement?