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Originally Posted by White Out 403
Isn't Cliff just trying to make the point that chalking up the Nazis as evil monsters is lazy and if there's real reasons why people can be suckered into this kind of #### and we should know about that so we can prevent it from having again?
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He was trying to make the case that the nazis did good things and that's why people fell for it.
What he's ignoring is that it wasn't the good things they did that got them in power. It was their blatant jingoism and giving the German people an enemy to blame for all their woes in the Jews and minorities. When people try and play the "The Nazis actually did some good" card in any fashion, it's usually a sign they don't understand why things happened the way they did or that they're not making the point in good faith which is usually a sign they're not a good person.
For the record, we're very aware of what the Nazis did to get in power and we literally just watched it happen again in 2016 with Trump. We are seeing it being attempted here in Canada. Knowing how populist fascists get in power doesn't stop it from happening. It had nothing to do with the "good they did" and everything to do with the hate fostered.