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Originally Posted by Dutch_851
Hmm... I'm sure you don't mean by daft methods like banning the swastika from plastic models and computer games, but I'm interested in how this would be achieved socially and politically without compromising democracy.
When your car's fixed that is. I'm still waiting for my new graphics card. Yesterday the driver of a reputable courier service couldn't find the address. That'll teach me to pay the extra £6.00 for next day delivery. I'm such a stingebag.
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Actually, no, I do not mean by that. In my opinion you can only beat the NAzis if you can beat them in open discourse, and all what a ban achieves is making them go into hiding and creating a dormant mood that can grow in peace because nobody can challenge it for lack of recongition.
No, what you need to learn is how prejudices develop, why certain gropus of people get villified. That once you start talking about "them" and "us", you already laid the foundations the Nazis can build upon. That taking away peopls dignity can result in very violent backslashes. That all people need free access to information because if they do not, then that means individuals can manipulate public opinion. Rupert Murdoch anybody?
The list goes on. It is not about the great and open mechanics that made the Nazis famous, it is about the small subtle, hardly recongizable changes in a publics mood that can result in sudden outbursts if not adressed early and can be exploited by populists. If something like the Nazis happens again, it won't be under the Nazi corporate identity, that is a given.
Actually I think all the talk about the Anzis does not serve to prevent them from comign up again, but gives them so much credit and presence that ppl will be rather hot to repeat their feats. It's by now probably the most (in)famous movement on this planet and constantly upheld everywhere. In all honesty, those gangsters could not have wished for more free air time.