Big inspiration for the question is the assertion I’ve seen on Lemmy a few times that this user base is as bad/misogynistic/hateful. But also just curious.

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    22 hours ago

    Not a Nazi

    Degenerate

    You’re using concepts the Nazis used heavily in the same way that they did, just against them. You might want to interrogate that.

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        20 hours ago

        We live in a world where I’m now seeing various slurs that originated in Nazi circles being used as regular slang.

        “Degenerate” as an insult is based in social degeneration theory, notably something coined by the original Nazi party to describe people they classed as sub-human, and they thought were leading to the degeneration of society.

        Forgive me for not liking when people use concepts coined by the Nazis in the same ways the Nazis used them, just on different groups. It’s not like classing people as sub-humans has lead to problems in the past or anything.

        Yes, fuck Nazis, but also fuck Nazi ideas, and maybe we shouldn’t be using them.