Earthworm on Nostr: Maybe I don't get how social media work, but for me, I expect written language to be ...

Maybe I don't get how social media work, but for me, I expect written language to be accurate (a different thing is if you have a heated discussion with somebody about the war and say 'this is so Nazi, bro' or something).

The Nazis were a quite singular historical movement (not that there aren't currently quite some fans that would love to do something similar). Really massive and very thorough in their destruction. Fuck, I mean, rewatch a documentary...

Why do we want to call somebody a Nazi? Probably to convince our peers that this person holds an ideology of pure evil, that they need to fight and that the 'neutral' bystanders and the current allies of the 'nazi' should stop supporting them.

And if you are not convinced by the fact that it's a question of respect not to compare groups that were targeted by genocide with their harassers, then maybe you'll understand the tactical consideration that, by compariing Israel with Nazis, the most likely outcome is that people that still support Israel, will only rally harder around Netanyahu. And it makes it also too easy for them to dismiss your argument (or article about the degree of fascism that reins in the Israeli government) as antisemitism. (Idon't make the rules, I just explain how people, e.g. in Germany, read news about Israel).

Netanyahu has definitely some buddies that might tick quite a few boxes of Nazi ideology (although, as Evan Prodromou (npub1764…nuj0) pointed out, there is no lack of other ideologies promoting or even executing settler colonialism, racist supremacy, pro-torture and genocide). But, especially on social media, people might probably still understand the comparison as 'Jews=Nazis'.

Communication is a bitch*

*(don't know if this word is offensive, if somebody has a better word, please tell me)

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