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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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Drink up jackasses, bring the noise. This is the the death before dishonor shit they always preach, well they've all been dishonored, now for the .....

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[–] lntl@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm not defending Nazis and I think you can see that. My take is that its harmful to label and then use that label to dehumanize a group of people. That type of behavior brings a witch hunt in the best case and genocide in the worst.

Were some people "objectively" witches during the Salem witch hunts? Were others "objectively" communist during the Red Scare? Many victims of the holocaust were objectively Jews.

I can see where you're coming from and understand why you feel that way: bigotry damages the world. We don't have to agree that calling people Nazis dehumanizes them and that dehumanizing people is harmful, that's fine. Peace be with you.

[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

My take is that its harmful to label and then use that label to dehumanize a group of people.

This we agree on and is really the crux of what I'm saying. I'm not using the term Nazi to dehumanize people, I'm labelling people as Nazis because they align with that ideology. It just also happens that being a Nazi is a bad thing. With your other examples, nobody was a witch, yes there were communists and Jews and bad people used those labels to demonize them even though they weren't bad because of those traits (there are certainly bad communists and Jews). If Hitler just said, "they're Jews" but didn't then vilify them, then the label isn't bad or wrong, it was the intent behind it's use.