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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Fascist/Nazi are interchangeable in American culture.

You're wasting your time arguing this pointless detail.

[–] MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world 0 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Cool, Americans don't get their own definitions for philosophies. It's frustrating how willing people are to defend this idea that they should.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Why would it matter if we got our own definition? The original Nazis are within living memory. Their symbols are within living memory. So when someone performs those symbols while advocating for many of the same tenets of that ideology, we just call it by the same name.

[–] MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world 0 points 6 hours ago

we already do that with "Liberal" and it makes it hard to have an informed conversation with other non-American English speakers.

Another reason is because fascists who are not Nazis can highlight the differences between them and the big bad Nazis. This causes people to forgive and underestimate fascism. The USA just installed a fascist administration which I believe is partly due to the fact that too many already identify fascism as only being Nazis when the Spanish fascists weren't much better but were more successful because it wasn't as obvious.

We don't need to encourage more ignorance.