hairyfigment comments on Failed Utopia #4-2 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MugaSofer 29 December 2012 07:39:21PM 1 point [-]

I don't know what verbal beliefs you think characterize Nazis more than their willingness to use violence against particular targets.

You don't? Well, you may not have heard of this, but they had kind of a thing about Jews. Thought they were subhuman and corrupting society and all sorts of crazy shit.

Comment author: hairyfigment 29 December 2012 10:44:10PM -1 points [-]

Apparently people dispute that Georg Ratzinger published the same beliefs. But again, since I've apparently had trouble making myself understood: none of those verbal claims, at least the ones publicly known before the start of violence, distinguished the Nazis from other people (if not literally people like GR within the German government).

Comment author: MugaSofer 30 December 2012 12:40:51PM *  -1 points [-]

Oh, right. Well, it's certainly true that anti-semetism was a lot more popular and socially acceptable before the holocaust. But it was even more popular, socially acceptable, and extreme among Nazis.