“NAZI” is the key word
in modern defamation. Doesn’t matter
whose political far-side you’re on, left or right, the term “Nazi” is your preferred
diatribe toward your opposite. Calling
someone a Nazi has replaced calling them a SOB or even worse. It’s sort of an anti-intellectual upgrade of
profanity, but profanity it is. “A rose
by any other name…”
I blame it substantially
on Hollywood. They have kept the Nazi
mythos alive for going on eighty years. At
least a couple of Nazi or Nazi-type movies are released annually. Nazis are ever on our mind. They have become
the ultimate nonsecular evil. They are the color to paint your opponent. It works!
Nowadays the Nazi
concept represents strength attractive to rather uneducated and weak
individuals. “Think like a Nazi and you’re
powerful like a Nazi,” is the limit of their philosophy. “Bomb a church, or
beat up some innocents,” are their operations. Thus, the neo-Nazi: cruel, stupid, and profane.
It’s easy to beat up on
the Nazis. There were the bad boys of recent history, killing millions. Their atrocities are so very well documented.
Yet, they had a glamour we simply love to see defeated – and always this
happens. No one counts of the deaths at
the hands of Genghis Kahn, Mao, Stalin, various Popes, the Muslims, and more. They get heat too, but nothing like the level
of the Nazi.
So, thank you Hollywood
for furnishing us with our current Satan.
It took nearly three generations, but worked perfectly. As well, it made
a lot of money for the Nazi Hollywood promoters, their preferred measure of
social justice.
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