• FauxPseudo @lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Dude thinks there isn’t any problem saying the N word and says the same strategy could work for the other N word. Except he never says the word he thinks there isn’t a problem saying.

  • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
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    Inglorious Basterds makes a solid case for being able to identify Nazis when they’re not in uniform.

    So go ahead, carve your own forehead - gives everyone else something to aim at.

  • OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world
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    So when I call some dumb maga jerk a Nazi and they respond with their usual “everything you don’t like is Nazi” I can just point this out and call it a day?

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      You could also point the similarities between ICE and the Gestapo and compare RFK Jr’s proposed “autism directory” to Aktion T4.

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    I watched this disgusting show the other night. Not only is it absolutely gross, the way they position topics is dangerous. I can’t believe people watch this thinking this is news.

  • Gates9@sh.itjust.works
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    Prominent comedian Greg “Gutfeld!”. Can’t wait for his one hour special on any platform at all, or his induction into the Mark Twain award, or his Friars Club roast, or his recognition by any legitimately relevant comedian.

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      It’s not a bad idea to email Fox News and ask them this question with a link to the clip. Particularly if you’re willing to attach your real name and home town.

      Does Fox News endorse reclaiming the term “Nazi”?

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      gutfield is the stand in for o’reilly when he iwas ousted, and jesse watters is the stand in for tucker when he was removed.

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    If ‘the blacks’ have removed power from the n-word, then why can the hosts still not say it? Is it because words do still hold powerful meaning and it’s the context that gives it that meaning? And that there is still no context in which the word Nazi can be reclaimed in the same way racial slurs have been?

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      It wouldn’t even make sense to say “reclaim” because it’s not like the meaning of “Nazi” ever changed. It means what it’s always meant and will likely always meant; it’s just that what it means is fucking abhorrent so people don’t tend to want to be described by it.

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        Seems like the hope is to dilute it down, so that it doesn’t have the same impact. Which may or may not work with the base, but I’m reasonably confident a majority of people will never not see Nazism as a super bad thing.

  • DominusOfMegadeus@sh.itjust.works
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    “This is why the criticism doesn’t matter to us.”

    Nazi, please. If the criticism didn’t matter to you, you wouldn’t be trying to take away the power of the word “Nazi”.

  • Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    This is what passes for “news” in the US. And half the country is watching it. In a sane timeline this guy would be roasted and career ended for such an insulting display…