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OhhhJa posted...

Holy strawmans. All I was doing was pointing out that he's applying his own made up idea of what neo nazis are and I added to that that many other people do the same. The term has come to mean anything that could be construed as bigoted even if it has nothing to do with race. People say there's a rise in neo nazis in America but the only rise is in what people are defining as neo nazis

"Neo Nazi" does tend to get used as a blanket term for all white supremacist organizations, largely because the white supremacy/racial cleansing angle is the primary thing Nazis are remembered for. It's a bit of an overgeneralization, but there are nonetheless plenty of white supremacists that would consider themselves neo-Nazis and adorn themselves with swastikas and wolfsangels and the like despite aligning with only a relatively small subset of Hitler's views, and there's room to argue that any distinction beyond that is largely academic and that adopting a broad label with fewer syllables is therefore reasonable.

That does not, however, mean that people are using the term to describe anyone they don't like, as you claimed and have yet to support. Any plans on changing that, Mr. Gyrification?

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