devildears replied to your post “Sometimes I think it’s time Germany reclaimed the word “nazi” as part...”
as a German i feel like the term is not part of a cultural heritage to protect and a lot of neo nazis in politics actually deserve this term
Well, I don’t support the concept of “cultural appropriation” in general, at least not the way it’s understood here on tumblr. Maybe I should have made the irony more obvious. In any case, what I actually meant is that the term has been bereft of its meaning, which was a member and/or supporter of the German national socialist party. It’s a term that has a historical context and a meaning.
It doesn’t mean “US American nationalist”, it also doesn’t mean “Trump voter”, and it certainly doesn’t mean “someone who considers the possibility that not every Trump voter is evil incarnated”.
It’s roughly in line with a tumblr mentality where the word pedophilia is applied to relationships between older teens and adults and everything is “abuse”.
It annoys me when words that used to have a clear definition and a clear context get to lose all their meaning. Especially in light of our German past, I’d prefer it if “nazi” wasn’t just some sort of casual insult thrown at people.
“Neo nazis” is a different thing, and if that were the term currently used, that would be a different thing. Alas, it’s not.