(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . No, Elon, they do not deserve a voice. [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2023-12-02 They are Nazis. They are the bad guys. The 4chan crowd and the hate mongers who populate X can call themselves whatever they want, from skinheads to Proud Boys, But they are still Nazis. And Nazis are the bad guys. All the apologists, all the pundits, all the ‘experts’ who debate whether the Holocaust was fake and whether conspiracy theories are true, miss the point completely. The point being that none of these ‘very fine people’ were alive in 1945. The fact is that for the last 70+ years, Nazis have been the bad guys. From The Longest Day to Hogan’s Heroes, Indiana Jones to Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos, comics to novels to movies to TV to cartoons, We have all grown up with the same singular message — Nazis are the bad guys. And at some young age, all these Oath Keepers and Proud Boys and white power people looked at these monsters, at these sneering, amoral, genocidal, murderous monsters and said “That’s what I want to be!” The reality of the Holocaust is irrelevant. They decided long before they heard the arguments that they wanted to wear the swastika. The merits of White Replacement Theory don’t matter — they are just excuses they use to try and add legitimacy to a view they adopted long before the theory was first posed. Their patriotism is a sham, and their demands for freedom are a con. They tattooed themselves in order to set themselves apart from mainstream culture, and they chose to be Nazis in order to shock and dismay. They are not good people. They do not WANT to be good people. They want to destroy civil society, because they WANT to destroy civil society. They should not be free to do so. They are criminals in waiting, and should be treated as such. They need to climb back under their rocks and brood silently, like their forbearers in the 50s and 60s and 70s. They are entitled to their opinions. But the rest of us don’t need to hear or heed them. [END] --- [1] Url: https://dailykos.com/stories/2023/12/2/2209194/-No-Elon-they-do-not-deserve-a-voice?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/