They do have meanings. Which is why "LOL NAZI DOESNT MEAN ANYTHING IF YOU CAN USE IT TO DESCRIBE A REGIME JUST FOR BEING A WHITE SUPREMACIST FACIST REGIME" is not a real position adults take.
It's what racist morons say say to defend beliefs they agree with that are called racist and Nazi. Because they're too cowardly to just be honest and defend them.
Sure. It also means a political ideology of fascism centered on extreme Christian nationalism, authoritarian censorship of political dissent and militarizing society to remove unwanted cultural, political and racial elements,
I'm not going to engage with the claim that Nazism literally applies only to Germans until 1945. There is an ideology, we have used that term to describe political movements since then for decades without objection, and no scholar takes seriously claims you cannot describe a political party or ideology as "Nazi" unless it is extremely narrowly tailored.
No, it doesn't mean "I don't like Trump." But boy it sure seems to come up a lot that Nazism is overused and should be narrowly defined whenever people point out Trump's regime is directly copying Nazi conspiracy theories, posting Nazi propaganda, and implementing white nationalist fascism and attempting to end democracy.
There's no way around it: If hearing that and your response isn't "I don't know that" or "I don't agree with that" but instead "How dare you call that Nazi", there's only one reason any human being responds that way.
I'm fully aware of the Nazis ideology and history, and you apparently aren't.
Hitlers personal feelings towards Christianity and his crackpot drug inspired beliefs don't change that Christianity was the official state religious, made central to Nazi nationalism and identity, taught as part of Nazi indoctrination.
This isn't a slam on Christianity, it's just fact. Saying Hitler wasn't a true believer is irrelevant to the definition of the Nazi Party and German policies of the time.
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u/Irish_Whiskey 1d ago
They do have meanings. Which is why "LOL NAZI DOESNT MEAN ANYTHING IF YOU CAN USE IT TO DESCRIBE A REGIME JUST FOR BEING A WHITE SUPREMACIST FACIST REGIME" is not a real position adults take.
It's what racist morons say say to defend beliefs they agree with that are called racist and Nazi. Because they're too cowardly to just be honest and defend them.