Who do you know who will 'go Nazi'?

[GoneOffShore]

(Harper's Magazine, 1941): "It’s fun—a macabre sort of fun—this parlor game of “Who Goes Nazi?” And it simplifies things—asking the question in regard to specific personalities.
Kind, good, happy, gentlemanly, secure people never go Nazi. They may be the gentle philosopher whose name is in the Blue Book, or Bill from City College to whom democracy gave a chance to design airplanes—you’ll never make Nazis out of them. But the frustrated and humiliated intellectual, the rich and scared speculator, the spoiled son, the labor tyrant, the fellow who has achieved success by smelling out the wind of success—they would all go Nazi in a crisis." http://harpers.org/archive/1941/08/who-goes-nazi/

Who do you know who would go Nazi?

[grantcart]

1. Nazis. Attempts to equate this evil ass to Hitler trivializes the Holocaust.

[GoneOffShore]

2. Did you even read the Harper's article from 1941?

And no, it doesn't trivialize the Holocaust.

I'm not going to have this fruitless discussion again. I've hashed it out on Facebook with the equally obtuse, and have no wish to spend my evening playing silly buggers on DU and raising my blood pressure.


Hitler wasn't Hitler until he was.

[grantcart]

4. Oh so you have hashed it out on Facebook, now that is a citation that carries weight

Hitler wasn't Hitler until he was

another steaming pile of nonsense

Hitler was Hitler in 1925 where he wrote Mein Kampf

With satanic joy in his face, the black-haired Jewish youth lurks in wait for the unsuspecting girl whom he defiles with his blood, thus stealing her from her people. With every means he tries to destroy the racial foundations of the people he has set out to subjugate. Just as he himself systematically ruins women and girls, he does not shrink back from pulling down the blood barriers for others, even on a large scale. It was and it is Jews who bring the Negroes into the Rhineland, always with the same secret thought and clear aim of ruining the hated white race by the necessarily resulting bastardization, throwing it down from its cultural and political height, and himself rising to be its master.

Casual references to what Trump is doing is an absolute trivialization of the mass murder that Hitler committed.

[GoneOffShore]

6. Trump is following the same playbook. But more people are keeping watch

Which is a good thing.

No one is crying wolf on Dolt45. He's more than willing to do all that Hitler did and more. And there are more than a few authoritarian loving, other hating people out there who would aid and abet.

And read the freaking piece! It was written in 1941, when the question of who would go Nazi was fairly important. It's also a good question to ask now. There are many Dolt45 supporters who fit the archetypes in the piece.

It's interesting to note that there are a number of people who lived through the era of Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin, and are still alive, who have pointed out the parallels of rhetoric and behavior.

Good night.

Don't go Nazi.

[dalton99a]

3. Great find.

[geek tragedy]

5. Some 60 million people come to mind nt