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I was taught when I was young that you don't call something that isn't really genocide genocide, someone that isn't a nazi a nazi, etc. because it dilutes the meaning of the word. I do think that Israel is committing a genocide, and I do think that Musk is a neo-nazi; I'm not diluting these terms to say this.
And calling critisim of israel anti-semetic dilutes the meaning of that word.
Which, funny enough, is exactly what Nazis want.
I would say he's a fascist rather than a neo-nazi, but that's very much a distinction without a difference.
He did a sieg heil at a political rally and repeated the word "victory" twice in his speech. Hes spoken at a German far right rally and told them to get over their guilt for the holocaust and to be proud of being German. He signal boosts neo-nazi's on his social media.
He's a neo-nazi.
Thing is, awful things are happening so often that people are just getting tired of hearing the word regardless of how serious the issues are, and how much more serious they keep getting.
That's true. So I think we need to come up with cleverer ways to make people see Musk as a threat. Just because he is a Nazi doesn't mean pointing at him and crying wolf is the best way to fight.
Respectful disagree. People raised now, particularly Americans, exist in a bubble of ignorance and relative safety, often finding it hard to believe a certain kind of danger is happening right up until the last minute. A gunman isn't really firing an automatic weapon at my workplace is he? What, like in Die Hard? That jet isn't about to hit my apartment building with a missile right? What is this, a Call of Duty game? Are Russians really waging psychological war on democracies around the world? Like in a Tom Clancy novel?
Stop disassociating. Stop denying. He seig heiled twice. The people who don't want to believe that are in serious danger and need to be shaken lucid. Like, pfft, what is this, one of those Wolfenstein reboots? These fictional worlds drew inspiration from somewhere. They were our ways to cope and make stacks off the pain and fear that preceeded them. It isn't playing wolf. Reality will rip your throat out in the woods.