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Re:Reddit is still in turmoil by MustardTiger on Friday July 22, 2016 @07:26AM (#12142907)
No, in particular since neither national socialism nor fascism was a boogeyman then.
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Re:Reddit is still in turmoil by rmc on Friday July 22, 2016 @07:51AM (#12142995)
Before the Nazis came to power, there were plenty of people in Germany who thought the Nazi party & Hitler were thugs and dangerous.
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Re:Reddit is still in turmoil by MustardTiger on Friday July 22, 2016 @09:11PM (#12147876)
Yes, but they were not a boogeyman, like I said. Where you can just say "you are a nazi!" to shut down any discussion of anything you please. There's a difference between "some people didn't like them" and being a boogeyman.
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Re:Reddit is still in turmoil by pyre on Friday July 22, 2016 @10:09AM (#12143570)
See "Brownshirts"[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturmabteilung

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