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White supremacist website calls for action against Jews in Montana
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That's straight up illegal isn't it?
Psychoward
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I thought refusing to buy products from a business that discriminates was like one of the few excuses Republicans had left on why discrimination should be allowed. Now people who do that need to be harassed? Ok.
bootsthecat
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Is this the sig heil guy from a month ago?
RPGCrazied
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Yeah, he does Hitler style meetings. People saluting, the whole nine.
Dot Matrix
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What is it with neo nazis and the word 'storm'? They can't seem to get enough of it.
Familienoberhauptvogel
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Wait till they find out she's black.
Sure it isn't the whole fourteen?
Sickboy007
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The name 'The Daily Stormer' is taken from 'Der Stürmer', a nazi tabloid that was instrumental in publicizing antisemitic propaganda in the 20s and 30s.
The Daily Stormer and a handful of other 'alt-right' sites are in many cases behind the organised harassment campaigns we've seen in the last election cycle. It's basically a Gawker-style blog authored by nazi 4channers.
Yes, it's as awful as it sounds.
Damerman
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this bothers me so much. I'll never understand it.
This distinction is the least irrational thing about their bigotry.
Gentleman Jack
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Because nazis aren't big on details or nuance.
R10Neymarfan
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Because jews were a race at some point in history. But there is a difference between those that practice the religion and those that came or descended from the region.
Damerman
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how is it any different from arab?
this isnt exclusive to nazis. people in general say this. annoys me. just like people who think spanish people are the same as mexicans when you can clearly see Spain is located in fucking Europe
Red Arremer
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Because it is.
Or, at least, an ethnicity.
There's a difference between Jews the people and Jews the practicioners of Judaism.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
They are both a unique ethnicity and a religion.
Much of the ethnicity are of that religion. Some of the religion are not of that ethnicity.
GutsOfThor
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Won't someone think of their economic anxiety?!
Carpe Carnim
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Why don't you start a new thread instead of deflecting from the point of the article.
"Race" doesn't exist. Ethnicity is the closest analog of the idea of race. No one cares about your shower thoughts.
you and anyone else that quoted me does
Gentleman Jack
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You asked an easy question about why a group of radicalized fascists with mistaken ideas about a lot of things also mistakenly think of Jewish as a race. People answered in kind
The broader answer is that American politics has been laced with an 'us versus them' mentality divided along cultural lines ever since boats started to land here hundreds of years ago. Either you assimilated into the 'white' crowd or you faced laws that kept you from participating in education, labor and government based completely a fabricated set of ideas about 'nonwhite' races. The Jewish immigrant wave faced a similar crisis and it didn't help that European sentiment about the 'otherness' of that culture carried over into our shores, yielding no small number of xenophobes to paint them with the same constructs that walled off people of asian, african, etc. descent. "They're another race" is just shorthand for "let's rig the system against them."
If you're truly concerned about what is and is not a race, you're kind of starting off asking the wrong question. Why race exists at all is a matter of political power, not one of orthodox taxonomic categorization.
Technically "stormtrooper" is a WW1 designation for infantry that's supposed to cross the no man's land and enter the enemy trench to fight there but yeah, it's likely the movies were referencing the Nazis with that, not the WW1 soldiers.
It was a bit silly in the German version of TFA because there's no word in German for a single stormtrooper, only the stormtroop (i.e. the whole squad).
Again. I did not ask about this group in particular. I said people. Everyone. Anyone. I mentioned this already but funny how that keeps getting ignored
Angelus Errare
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Me too, I never even thought of it. Like I knew Star Wars was social commentary and I caught the references but at no point did I think of Stormtroopers. Like wow
Psychoward
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Why do people still think Jews are evil?
Gentleman Jack
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You ignored the entire second paragraph of my post.
ThoseDeafMutes
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Star Wars isn't really social commentary, but drew heavily on WWII for inspiration. The combat is WWII dog-fighting, the turret sequences on the falcon are straight out of war footage, the Imperial officers are dressed like the SS, the soldiers are "stormtroopers", the heavy blasters are literally German MG-34s (although the smaller blasters are British Sterling SMGs). The comparisons are often a bit shallow, more aesthetic than anything else. The Nazi SA (Stormtroopers) were a very small and unimportant organization after 1934. The name sounds cool though, so all Imperial soldiers we see for more than like 10 seconds are Stormtroopers.
Angelus Errare
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It's the storm thing, I honestly didn't know about the whole sturm Nazi thing.
JoeyJungle
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oy vey
ThoseDeafMutes
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The word is often translated as "Assault" rather than "Storm", as in Sturmgewehr -> Assault Rifle. But the Star Wars Stormtroopers are not similar to the actual Stormtrooper organization in the Nazis, which was a paramilitary organization intimidating people in the streets rather than any kind of elite special forces. In '34 a lot of senior SA personnel were killed, and the organization was reduced in size and importance, replaced for most purposes by the SS (Hitler's personal bodyguard, which eventually expanded to become an army in its own right).
SlickShoesRUCrazy
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I work with a lot of Jewish people that were pro-trump.
Basically they voted to impower Neo-nazis.
Trips me out.
Basically they voted to impower Neo-nazis.
Trips me out.
Richard Spencer is an idiot as proved by the following video
https://youtu.be/27RXiA0qkrM
There was a thread on this
https://youtu.be/27RXiA0qkrM
There was a thread on this
I think Jews in general overwhelmingly voted Democrat though. Your work associates were outliers.
7DollarHagane
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wtf did the jews ever even do to anyone that they have gotten so much shit in history?
Frozenprince
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The original even used re-purposed Nazi uniforms.
Angelus Errare
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Yea I know the Nazi angle, that's pretty in your face. I just never studied it in school so the whole "sturm"/neo-nazi love using "storm" portion was oblivious to me. And I try to not learn about neo-nazi in any capacity so yea.
Psychoward
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I don't think I need a video analysis to understand why a neo-nazi is an idiot lol
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