Why do right wingers love comparing people to Nazis?

[Lynx122]

Labour party definitely look like total Nazis

This makes 0 sense to me. Like for instance the mass murderer Anders Breivik who killed children in the summer camp of the Labour party of Norway which is a center left party. He specifically hated immigrants and Muslims and wanted to create a Norway for blonde and blue eyed people. He hated the Labour party because he thought they made things too easy for immigrants. He was on forums with Neo Nazis but later on he compared everybody he didn't like to Nazis, like the Labour party, the judges and prosecutors etc.

You are literally supporting the Nazi ideology. But even for people who are not as extreme as Anders Breivik it doesn't make sense to call people on the left of you Nazis. If you want to call them communists that's probably also not true but at least it makes some sense.

Is it because Nazis have become such a symbol for everything evil and they don't think about it at all?

And no Nazis were not a left wing Organization just because their party was called Nationalist Socialist Party The socialism was in there because Germany was facing hard economic times an they wanted to convince people that they would take care of them but their main platform was based on nationalism, xenophobia and racism and just anger and hatred which is still what right wing parties do today.

Also the tools that nationalists use today to promote their ideology is way more comparable to Nazis than what parties on the left do.

Military parades, flags, medals, calling your country the greatest, warning of a outside threat or immigration potentially destroying your perfect country.

[Chazmatazz269]

You make some valid points, but you’re cherry picking. The left wants to ban firearms. The Nazis didn’t ban guns, but they sure took full advantage of the ban. The Nazis banned and burned books. The left opposes freedom of speech. The Nazis were a socialist party. You downplay that, but it IS a fact. The left is also utilizing fascism to manipulate and control people who vote differently from them. No different than the right.
Also, the left and right vary regionally in the US. Many southern democrats are famously members of the KKK. Hillary Clinton famously supported David Duke and vice versa. There’s only one organization in the US that more closely resembles the racist and nationalist rhetoric of the Nazis than the KKK.
Clearly you’re more interested in driving a specific narrative than in facts and the truth. Only idiots will fall for it.

[monorprise]

If racism and anti-religious sentiment is what identifies NAZI ideology then why was it just as common among the communist (who killed more people) and even western democracies?

What defines Nazism isn't their racist believe but their underline national socialist believes which like communist believes created both the collectivist need and means to carry out social engineering on this scale.

The only real difference between the National Socialist (NAZI's) fascist and the communist is the Nazi's didn't try to directly run everything themselfs. They cooped industry rather than attempt to replace it's competent leaders with their own political stooges.

This made the NAZI's more effective and thus dangerous, requiring the communist far longer to carry out their own plans but it didn't change what they were.

[FreyaRed]

I guess you should ask in Labor party fora anonymously, why they want to import trillion of immigrants when they know it will lower wages. Lower wages are bad for working class which should be represented by so called labor parties.
Than wait for replies. I assure you won't get any reasonable replies just ad hominem attacks or comparisons of your person with very negative things.

[Lynx122]

It is actually often not true that immigrants lower wages most of the time. Often they help the economy grow overall and help companies stay open. Like in the UK a lot of businesses had to shut down or cut back or move to other countries because of lack of staff so then everyone lost their job where before both English people and immigrants could work together. Economies are quite complex and it's not as straight forward as you seem to think that immigration is bad. Often it's great for the western countries. Qualified people who were educated elsewhere come here to work and many go back to retire in their homeland so the western country gets all the production and the homeland gets all the costs. Of course it's not always like that but often it is. And many of the jobs that immigrants do are unattractive to people born in the west like harvesting crops or taking care of elderly people hard jobs that don't pay much.

[FreyaRed]

"... And many of the jobs that immigrants do are unattractive to people born in the west like harvesting crops or taking care of elderly people hard jobs that don't pay much. "

Do you suggest we should introduce slavery for those immigrants, when they get old we pack them to 100 men in 40 feet containers and sink those containers into the sea as feed for eels? Because this is the next step from "hard jobs that don't pay much"

[Lynx122]

I never said anything like that. I don't know what you're talking about. People from poorer countries who travel to a richer country will do jobs there because the money is good for them that people who are born in a rich country don't want to do. That's not a very controversial thing to say. I don't understand in the slightest how you got from that to slavery.

[wiltingrosepetal]

Are you joking? Both political sides do this. And the apoliticals. And the centrists. We just really LOVE bringing up the holocaust. Not sure why.
I guess it's just because Hitler is the most famous villain of all time. He's the most extreme extreme example of immoral behaviour and so, people use the nazi party a lot in sociological debates.

[DarkLegacy]

Because socialism was the same as Nazism and they are against the Jews and disabled people just like the Nazis. They are always doing things to oppress them and support Palestine. The left consists of feminism and the first feminist were Nazis. The first abortion campaigner Marie Stopes was a Nazi hence why she wanted disability abortion.

The left will always ignore disability in it's equality pledge which is nothing more then imposing dictatorship and they ignore anti semitism as well. Silence speaks volumes and what is the woke left say also. Im referring to their cliche: 'Silence is violence'. And they are always silent on those issues

[Lynx122]

What are you talking about? Who is oppressing disabled people? And supporting rights for Palestinian people is not the same thing as being a Nazi. A lot of people wish to make it the same thing but it isn't.

[strateguy632]

the left is constantly calling people on the right "nazis" and fascist. trying to associate speeches of conservatives to nazis. apparently someone noticed the hypocrisy and pushed back about those similarities. about time!

[DrPepper12]

Because not all Trump supporters are Nazis but most Nazis are Trump supporters. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[monorprise]

I guess that depends upon how you define a "NAZI" @DrPepper12. The original way as Adoft defined it, or your 'modern' definition which has little to do with the original one.

Regardless the self-defined ones are mostly all democrats. The small goverment non-race focused republican party has never done well among national Socialist, or real racist for that matter.

But if you use the modern democrat definition of NAZI which is basically anyone who disagrees with leftist then yes by definition, most of them are voting for republicans.

[DrPepper12]

@monorprise ooookkkkaaaayyyy...

[exitseven]

Nazis really were bad guys but it is usually people from the left that call the conservatives Nazis. Biden put his foot in his mouth just the other day when he said that Trump said that he was going to create a "unified reich" when in reality somebody retreated a picture on his Trurh Social account and since Truth Social does no censor it was published. It was immediately taken down when discovered.

[goaded]

It was Trump that re-posted it, and it wasn't taken down until the next day.

[exitseven]

@goaded No, it was a Trump staffer and I guess it was not anything Trump said himself but it was a sign in the background that went by so fast that the staffer did not notice it. Biden said that it was a video made by Trump that he posted. Just another lie out of his mouth.

[goaded]

I'm sure I read somewhere that Trump was the only person to use that account. Or maybe one other named person... But then Trump also said he'd testify in his court case and didn't.

[exitseven]

@goaded The fake news is desperate so they will do anything to make Trump look bad.

"This was not a campaign video, it was created by a random account online and reposted by a staffer who clearly did not see the word, while the President was in court,” Trump campaign spokesperson Karoline Leavitt told The Associated Press in a statement.

You want to see a Nazi. Check this out. Adolf Biden really outdid himself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKe9QqT58Ao

[goaded]

A Trump spokesperson would never lie. Wasn't the source of the video the same people who made the "God sent Trump" video (or whatever it was)?

[exitseven]

@goaded I never heard of this and the video was taken down so I never saw it but a couple of reliable sources said it was a big deal made over nothing.

[goaded]

Well, it wasn't just a "random account online", Trump reposted their stuff before.

"A video posted on Donald Trump’s Truth Social account this week included a reference to the creation of a “unified Reich”...

The campaign attributed its creation to a “random account” and said the staffer who posted it did not notice the words, but its real origin was a trollish collective of online influencers called the Dilley Meme Team."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7228wlpe0ko

"On Jan. 5, 2024, former U. S. President Donald Trump shared on his Truth Social account a video with the repeated words, "So God made Trump."

The video was originally created by a group of Trump's supporters named the Dilley Meme Team and was later reposted to the former president's account."
www.snopes.com/fact-check/god-made-trump-video/

[exitseven]

@goaded so Trump didn;t make this.

[goaded]

Nobody ever said he did. They might have said he'd posted it. The fact that it came from a group he'd reposted before belies the claim that was from just a "random account online".

[JacobJordan]

Probably for the exact same reason liberals call everyone who disagrees with them a fascist. Though liberals actually are presenting several nazi qualities. College campuses liberals are blocking Jewish students and professors from entering buildings. Exact same thing the nazis did on Kristallnacht (the Night of Broken Glass)

[NamerOfStars]

As you say, it's because "Nazi" has become a generic stand in for "evil", often with little understanding of why that's the case.

[Gospeedracer]

Maybe the so called right wingers you have described have taken a leaf out of the left wing book of virtue signaling by throwing others under the bus to make themselves look good. Things started to turned bad in germany when they were not allowed to protect their own interests. It kind of like today where racism, multiculturalism, discrimination, demonization and cultural destruction are only allowed and encouraged against white people and their countries. We should all know how it ends.

[AviatorTom]

Nazis and what they did is very well known to the majority of people. If you're trying to make a point it's easy to compare to someone or something that every knows about..

[goaded]

Normalising it, so that when people correctly point out the parallels between 1930's Germany and today's Republican party they can pretend it's just rhetoric or revenge for being called Nazis.

[onedarkcloud]

Here is a real novel idea. How about getting a book on the NAZI Party and reading it there are thousands of books written on this subject that will educate you better than 90% of the explanations offered here and you will be able to answer your own question

[AngryCarl]

I have one word for you: Projection.

In England we have a saying: It takes one to know one.

We have a lot of dumb sayings.

[Drewtate]

Recently in Germany

[Anonymous]

Locker room mentality of the party. Love of labels and fear mongering.

[SotiCoto]

Probably because a "left-wing" collectivist authoritarian and a "right-wing" collectivist authoritarian are both the same thing at the end of the day...

[Dargil]

Why do right Democrats love comparing Republicans to Nazis?

[KrakenAttackin]

Are you kidding? Leftists call everything they don't like either "nazi", "racist", or "nazi racist"... of course they forget Hitler was one of the lefts prodigies.

[rube37]

Very stupid question, and the reason it is stupid is because if you pay any attention to what many national politicians are saying, it is exactly the opposite. It is the left which is comparing those on the right to Nazis.

[purplepoppy]

They're trying to rewrite history.

[Anonymous]

Here the left party are red and anti-Semitic, hard to argue with that correlation

Oh and they tried to appease the true Nazis in 1938

[Snakeyes7]

We're you living under a rock this past decade? It is the left doing that, not the right.