Quote Originally Posted by Tito Fuente View Post
If I am one of the posters that you were referring to, then I want to clarify that I wasn't "upset".

Factual though it is (and I went to the History of National Socialism in Munich a few years ago so I know that it's not an offense to say it), in my experience, the "National Socialism" line only gets wheeled out on social media when people are wanting to make a point about the "socialism " part of the name.

Lither, the *actual* Nazi sympathiser who was posting on here used it numerous times whilst also declaring that Hitler wasn't a fascist.

I highly doubt that you're made from the same mould as him but breaking out the N.S. party stuff is very much on brand for the alt & far right, James. Don't be like them.

As for comparing the UK with Nazi Germany, there are of course some similarities, but we are nowhere near that state yet in my opinion.

What we can't start doing is saying that we cannot make comparisons.

When I visited that museum in Munich, the most shocking thing that I took away from the experience was just how many similarities the rise of Hitler and the Nazi party had with Donald Trump's America.
I wasnt referring to you👍

You aren't right on the National Socialist thing though. It's very common parlance and is used interchangably with Nazi, which literally is an abbreviation of National Socialist. If writing extensively on the topic, obviously Nazi gets used more as it's the shorter form, but both terms are used to describe the party. There is nothing remotely 'alt right' about it.

Here's Olaf Scholtz using it last year:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...-ve-day-speech

Here it is on page one of BBC Bitesize

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guide...82p/revision/1

This could go on and on, but referring to them as Nazis IS no different to referring to them as National Socialists, for one is an abbreviation of the other.

What isn't right is saying the Nazis are in any way similar to mainstream European socialist parties of the last 100 years or so, because they absolutely aren't. National Socialism and Socialism are very different things but you can't just change historical terms for the fun of it