I've heard a couple of times this week something to the effect of "Nazis aren't people.".
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I've heard a couple of times this week something to the effect of "Nazis aren't people.". I know that it's really appealing to dehumanize them because that makes it easier to fight back and resist. And because it is horrifying to imagine people acting this way.
But it's so much worse than that. Nazis are people. Every single heckin' one.
They aren't forces of nature or hivemind aliens or demons without free will. They are people who are actively choosing to keep doing Nazi stuff. They wake up in the morning and decide to harm other people because they hate them.
That's the scariest thing about Nazism: from a few terrible seeds, these brainworms took over German society. Many Germans, nice decent people, were complicit in things which I would call unspeakable if it weren't so vital for us to name and remember them.
And now, again, people we know or knew are tumbling into that vortex. And it's horrifying to look around and see Nazis coming for the US with everything they've got. But what's even scarier are all the people in the middle who aren't sure whether they want to live under fascism alongside concentration camps, or elect a black woman.
