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Paradox of tolerance is what degenerates many functioning groups (including organizations, companies, nations). It should have never come to this stage...

For everyone's sake, I hope you never get branded as a Nazi, for whatever reason, by a government that thinks like you.

Pretty sure the OP was being sarcastic.

Many people who say similar things on the internet are not being sarcastic about it, so it's hard to tell.

Maybe I was too!

I would have thought the last sentence of my comment would have been enough of a signifier.

You seem to be unfamiliar with Poe's Law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law

Would you have said the same back in 1933-45, when the US, Brits and Soviets literally invaded Germany for being a Nazi country?

I'm German, we have extensively learned about these twelve years in school. Trust us Germans on our experience with Nazism to say that it must be stopped in its roots before it gets hold and storms your Capitol.

I grew up in a dictatorship and spent 12 years in school being taught people carrying certain labels are really really bad and subhuman. From that point it was very easy to fill up the prisons and execute almost 60,000 people just by applying those labels to anyone they wanted.

Anti-revolutionary, infidel, morally corrupt and other words.

I am very scared of the Nazis (I also have other reasons to be scared of them because of the color of my skin, etc), but I am more scared of labels and people who apply those labels without a proper legal process.

Trust me!

Are you an Iranian?

But how do you tell which sides are the Nazis. I know it's controversial but hind sight is 20/20 and here both sides claim the other side is authoritarian. I don't think we can just assume the next Nazis will use the same name as the ones before. They however will certainly grow out of hatred. The world nations buried a seed of hatred in German heart through reparations post WW1 and the whole world reaped the horrors that grew out of it.

The current leaders should always remember while kicking the weak ones today. How much bitterness and hatred am i sowing with my actions and who will reap the horrors. Same goes with the people on either side that cheer whenever authoritarian actions take place. They could be cheering their own destruction or of future generations.

> But how do you tell which sides are the Nazis.

By listening to what they say, what they want and whom they follow and analyzing that. People claiming that "a secret cabal of Jews" or whatever is trying to introduce a "new world order" via the coronavirus pandemic, or that Black people or immigrants are the root cause of an economic crisis are most likely Nazi sympathizers.

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