What's this term "neo-nazis"?

[shraby]

It should be called "New Nazis". Calling them neo Nazis is a deliberate softening of what they are and what they represent. New Nazis is what they are and what they should be called.

A second go-around with an abomination.

[Squinch]

1. tikiNazis.

[neeksgeek]

2. Perhaps you're right

Neo-Nazi dates back, I think, to skinheads in the 70s and 80s... I first heard it used in regard to a couple skinheads in my high school.

How about we just call them terrorists?

[Not Ruth]

3. Everyone wants their own thing

I am a fan of punk music, which was co opted by skinheads early on. In response, alternatives to the skinheads popped up, bands like the Yeastie Girlz, which were feminist, but still punk.

[Iggo]

4. That's what they've been called since at least back in the 60s, and probably farther back than that.

That's what Neo-Nazis means: New Nazis.

[shraby]

5. That's when the language began to be softened. It's time to call a spade a spade again. Softening

the language was tried and it didn't work. The nefarious side of the coin continued to do their dirty work because people went to sleep as to what they were really all about.

It didn't go back before the mid 60s for the most part. I can remember when they started doing it in order to make everyone feel good about themselves no matter what.

[Iggo]

6. Then let's just call them Nazis.

[Dr Hobbitstein]

7. Neo isn't softening...

It means New.

I grew up in the 80s, when the neo-Nazis were on the rise. I never felt it a softening of the term Nazi, just differentiating between them and the ones who were in actual power in 1930s/40s Germany.

[H2O Man]

8. Recommended.

Thank you.

[shraby]

9. I thank you! I value your opinions.