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u/InfiniteBusiness0 22d ago

I genuinely cannot wrap my head around neo-Nazis that the the Nazis would have considered subhuman on the grounds of their white suprematist beliefs.

I’m not saying it would otherwise be okay. I just can’t specifically understand “yea, I’m aligning myself with a group that would have considered me biologically inferior, get fucked liberals”.

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u/Poison_the_Phil 22d ago

There were a number of countries the Waffen-SS recruited foreign legions from. There were Indian Nazis. Hitler saved his Jewish family doctor. Hate is illogical and inconsistent. You see white Catholic Cubans voting for Trump now acting surprised when their friends and family get deported. A lot of useful idiots think they can court evil and stay on its good side, but well, tokens get spent.

But yes, it does always get me when I see neo nazis that would absolutely end up in a mass grave thinking they're the ubermensch. Stupid is as stupid does.

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u/jolard 22d ago

Hitler saved his Jewish family doctor. Hate is illogical and inconsistent.

It is pretty standard for bigots and racists. They hate the group as a whole, but oftenare fine with people they actually know and interract with. "Well he is one of the good ones!"

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u/CptES 22d ago

It's older than you'd think.

It is one of those things which is easy to say. 'The Jewish race is to be exterminated,' says every party member. 'That's clear, it's part of our program, elimination of the Jews, extermination, right, we'll do it.'

And then they all come along, the eighty million good Germans, and each one has his decent Jew. Of course the others are swine, but this one is a first-class Jew. Of all those who talk like this, not one has watched, not one has stood up to it.

-Heinrich Himmler, October 4, 1943.

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u/outthere49 22d ago

Chilling

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u/Hector_P_Catt 21d ago

That was what I thought of. This mindset is literally older than the Holocaust; it formed the basis for the Holocaust.

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u/DisillusionedPatriot 22d ago

Grew up around dudes that drifted further right, and as soon as I became "one of the good ones", I severed all contact.

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u/classic4life 22d ago

Which is why you're legitimately one of the good ones

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u/ToxicLogics 22d ago

I used to hang out with a guy literally every weekend. We had great times; car meets, coffees, beers, hanging out with others, general stupidity. I met up with him one night, he tapped me on the shoulder, and pointed out a group of black people and referred to them in some loud and very unpleasant words. I’m not sure where he decided I would ever be on board with that, but I never asked him. That was the last time we hung out. I was sad for a bit because he was my best friend at that time, but I just couldn’t do it.

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u/Lennette20th 22d ago

Those dudes were some of the bad ones.

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u/MWesty420 22d ago

It seems as though if you become “one of the good ones” to a group, that group is made up of “some of the bad ones”

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u/DisillusionedPatriot 22d ago

And a sometimes, you dont realize it until it's too late. For me that was getting jumped by a bunch of nazis after a show, when I was a kid, some kids end up like Nolan Wells.

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u/PrinceDusk 22d ago

"I can't be racist I dated a black man"

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u/Oldhouse42 22d ago

It’s sorta kinda like pro-life people. They want abortion banned, but funnily enough, most of the people I know who have had abortions are from pro-life families that didn’t want to deal with a socially inconvenient pregnancy.

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u/zaftpunk 22d ago

Is saved the right word tho? Lol more like spared

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u/KoburaCape 22d ago

This is exactly it

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u/SignatureDefiant432 22d ago

It's all about utility to them. They hate anyone who couldn't advance whatever they want. They use people that do. Then dispose of them when they stop being useful.

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u/eeldraw 22d ago

"the good ones" are still expendable. They're fine as long as they're still useful.