• ryathal@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    If you ignore the good, you ignore how fascism gains power. Hitler made Germany better for a majority the citizens than any other European country. The difference was also far greater than just stealing wealth from jews. Failing to confront and acknowledge this allows fascists to succeed. You don’t fight fascism by punching them, you fight them by making a country pleasant enough to live in that the masses don’t listen in the first place.

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      7 months ago

      You don’t fight fascism by punching them, you fight them by making a country pleasant enough to live in that the masses don’t listen in the first place.

      Why not both?

      Punching Nazis is also pretty effective. The OG Nazis were beaten through superior force, not rhetoric.

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        7 months ago

        Plenty of Germans punched nazis, it didn’t stop them from rising. Removal of them is different than preventing their rise in the first place. Kind of like pests, you don’t tent a house to prevent termites.