This type of revisionism is off putting to “normies.” I don’t know if that will change with widespread normalization, but, for the current time, people are still (correctly) primed to respond with “wait… what the fuck?”
Anecdotal: I was discussing with a friend who isn’t tuned in to basically anything explicitly “political” especially online Nazi shit. It came up due to a meme where girls were asking guys how often they thought about Rome. And I was like “yeah, for a few people it’s probably for actual historical comparisons, but for most of them that’s a red flag. They’re just obsessed with the power and the glory aesthetics from the past. Like the Nazis.”
Then I was continuing on with something like “many of them ironically agree with the Nazis, although they will always say they do not. A fundamental thing that they agree on, a core aspect of fascism and Nazism, was their hatred for communism and specifically the USSR in the case of Nazis. A lot of them have spent time trying to pretend that the Soviets were as bad as the Nazis. There’s no actual basis for this, it’s known as Holocaust revisionism which is akin to holocaust denialism, but they will say it nonetheless. Perhaps unaware that they are just saying Nazi talking points.”
Her only response was “what the fuck? Why?”
I just let her wonder why/place that puzzle piece as she feels fit… but if you’re just saying Nazi talking points and making shit up to make their crimes seem less significant, well, I know what I call those people…
This type of revisionism is off putting to “normies.” I don’t know if that will change with widespread normalization, but, for the current time, people are still (correctly) primed to respond with “wait… what the fuck?”
Anecdotal: I was discussing with a friend who isn’t tuned in to basically anything explicitly “political” especially online Nazi shit. It came up due to a meme where girls were asking guys how often they thought about Rome. And I was like “yeah, for a few people it’s probably for actual historical comparisons, but for most of them that’s a red flag. They’re just obsessed with the power and the glory aesthetics from the past. Like the Nazis.”
Then I was continuing on with something like “many of them ironically agree with the Nazis, although they will always say they do not. A fundamental thing that they agree on, a core aspect of fascism and Nazism, was their hatred for communism and specifically the USSR in the case of Nazis. A lot of them have spent time trying to pretend that the Soviets were as bad as the Nazis. There’s no actual basis for this, it’s known as Holocaust revisionism which is akin to holocaust denialism, but they will say it nonetheless. Perhaps unaware that they are just saying Nazi talking points.”
Her only response was “what the fuck? Why?”
I just let her wonder why/place that puzzle piece as she feels fit… but if you’re just saying Nazi talking points and making shit up to make their crimes seem less significant, well, I know what I call those people…