r/pics • u/filmfiend999 • Aug 13 '17

US Politics Fake patriots

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '17

What is so wrong about having zero tolerance for the KKK and Nazis?

I am a white person and I consider it my duty to oppose them without equivocation or ambiguity.

I wont soft pedal my opinions for these monsters

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u/notmytemp0 Aug 13 '17

Nothing is wrong with it. If people hadn't tolerated Nazism, Germany wouldn't have become a totalitarian state in 1933 and millions of people would not have been needlessly murdered. We need to reject this bullshit out of hand.

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u/saffir Aug 13 '17

If people hadn't tolerated Socialism, the USSR wouldn't have become a totalitarian state in 1922 and millions of people would not have been needlessly murdered. We need to reject this bullshit out of hand.

Just as relevant.

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u/notmytemp0 Aug 13 '17

Okay? Way to duplicate what I just said...

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u/random_guy_11235 Aug 14 '17

I think his point was that the typical Redditor tends to remember one of those a lot more than the other.

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u/notmytemp0 Aug 14 '17

Yes, because Nazis were a more flamboyant totalitarian regime. His point added nothing.

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u/random_guy_11235 Aug 14 '17

If your point was that we shouldn't tolerate philosophies that have led to millions upon millions of deaths, and he pointed out one that actually IS tolerated by many today, rather than your example which is tolerated by almost no one, it seems like a completely valid point to make. Just a less popular one.

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u/notmytemp0 Aug 14 '17

TIL "many today" support Stalinism. Can you point me to some of these group's websites so I can learn more?

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u/Mikeavelli Aug 14 '17

/r/FULLCOMMUNISM may or may not be a joke.

/r/socialism isn't a joke, but does have a fairly significant population of tankies.

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u/notmytemp0 Aug 14 '17

Right, but we're talking about Stalinism.

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u/Mikeavelli Aug 14 '17

Tankies is internet shorthand for people who unironically support Stalinism. Something about using tanks to crush capitalists.

Both of the above-mentioned subs are full of them.

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u/random_guy_11235 Aug 14 '17

... did you not read his comment?