National Socialism was a leftist ideology, that’s why the Hitler slur isn’t sticking to Elon Musk

American Thinker ^ | 28 Jan, 2025 | D. Parker

[MtnClimber]

These days the far-left is in big trouble. Like a washed-up magician with nothing but a bag of old, worn-out tricks and linguistic sleight of hand, they have nothing to offer but hoaxes and lies without the merest ring of truth. Their usual deceptions have been exposed, and no one is buying them anymore. They judge people on the color of their skin instead of the content of their character, and so their racist projections fall on deaf ears. Their song and dance on climate change has become a punch line covering everything except their credibility. They’ve become the “Sideshow Bob” of political entities, and at every turn stepping on a rake and getting so justifiably smacked square in the face. Now that they are shriveling to a pitiful political minority, cancel culture is being shown to be a paper tiger — as it always was. Still, its being a supposed force to be reckoned with was a bluff.

Their latest failed little scam bit arose when a defender of freedom and free speech made a certain hand gesture that leftists immediately seized upon, or “pounced on” as they like to accuse; one of the sad little hoaxes they’ve always played, which is at once both ridiculous and wrong on multiple levels. People have always waved their hands, but if you do it in the wrong way, the left will accuse you of sympathies with a certain socialist national worker’s party.

Since this is being written on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we’ll start with the infuriating fact that the ever-so-casual use of these slurs diminishes the horrific crimes of the actual National Socialist German Workers’ Party. Coupled with the fact that far too many ignore the genocide of other socialist and communist mass murderers such as Lenin, Stalin, Mao,

[MtnClimber]

It may have worked once or twice so the left kept using the NAZI slur. But, people have gotten so used to it that they think it is strange when the slur is not used.

[Openurmind]

It might be leftist ideology. But our establishment GOP on the hill is all in to help make it happen. If they say different they are absolute liars. Not doing anything about it carries the very same guilt as doing it themselves.

They had the opportunity endless times but did absolutely nothing.

[Empire_of_Liberty]

People may be missing the use of the camera by the Left.

A camera rarely tells the truth. Still photos, distorted angle (St. Floyd was choked, you know), choice of subject matter. The Left loves the camera because it lies and people trust their eyes. It doesn’t hurt that the world is full of Lefties with cameras.

[FreedomPoster]

The RACIST! slur has lost its power, so they are trying the Nazi slur.

It is not working except amongst the NPC Leftist faithful. Thinking people just shake their heads and move on.

[PIF]

National Socialism was a leftist ideology, based on Islam

[Petrosius]

You mean that the Nazis, i.e., National SOCIALISTS, were a left-wing socialist movement? Who would have known?

[Red6]

A picture often does not tell the complete or even accurate story.

That is a fact.

https://allthatsinteresting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/colorized-saigon-execution-photo.jpg

That image was used by the anti Vietnam war movement to show how horrible this war was.

But if you tell the reader that the guy about to get shot in the head was a Viet Cong captain that had been caught murdering the family of members of the national police in Saigon during the Tet Offensive of 1968, suddenly your sympathy for this guy fades.

Context matters.a

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Like I pointed out earlier, nazis, commies and democrats . Two wings and a tail of the same buzzard. Too bad you won’t believe the actual words of your nasty natzys.
NATIONALIST SOCIALISTS and COMMUNIST SOCIALISTS to the core! No wonder the SOCIALISTS call everyone they don’t like after a third rate Italian Political Party(fascists) of the 1930s.

Goebbel’s own words...”Lenin is the greatest man, second only to Hitler, and that the difference between Communism and the Hitler faith is very slight.”-Joseph Goebbels
And...
“Controversial problems [between Germany and Russia] did not, in my opinion, exist anywhere along the line from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea and to the Far East. In addition, despite all the divergencies in their views of life, there was one thing common to the ideology of Germany, Italy and the Soviet Union: opposition to the capitalist democracies in the West.”—Julius Schnurre, Nazi trade rep to Russia.
And...
Communist Party USA Chairman Vows Cooperation With Democratic Party(from 2015)
https://www.yahoo.com/news/communist-party-usa-chairman-vows-cooperation-democratic-party-141019868.html

[bray]

After the war Socialism got a bad name from Nazism so they switched to Communism until it was revealed Russia and China slaughtered 200 million of their own people so they went back to Socialism.

[BroJoeK]

Empire_of_Liberty: "The Left loves the camera because it lies and people trust their eyes.
It doesn’t hurt that the world is full of Lefties with cameras."

Saigon, February 1, 1968, Associated Press
photojournalist Eddie Adams won a Pulitzer Prize for this:

Red6: "But if you tell the reader that the guy about to get shot in the head was a Viet Cong captain that had been caught murdering the family of members of the national police in Saigon during the Tet Offensive of 1968, suddenly your sympathy for this guy fades.
Context matters."

Worth repeating -- this image helped defeat the American military in Vietnam.
It's because the sad fact was: by the end of 1968, American leftist news media (i.e., Walter Cronkite) had convinced the public that winning in Vietnam was not only not possible, but also not even desirable, and this photo helped make that case.

Here's another that clinched the argument in 1972:

Tanken by Nick Ut on June 8, 1972 -- Kim Phúc, a nine-year-old girl, running down a road after being severely burned by napalm dropped by South Vietnamese planes.
This photo won Nick Ut a Pulitzer Prize in 1973.
It helped clinch the argument in favor of American defeat in Vietnam.

Napalm girl, 1972 and today living in Ontario, Canada:

Kim Phúc is a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador and runs a non-profit organization to help children affected by war.

[ChessExpert]

This article helps to do the very important job of convincing people that there never were any “right-wing Nazis.” All Nazis were left-wing. If you can find any Nazis today, they are probably brain-washed kooks who are trying to live up to a false stereotype. On the other hand, there are many socialists.

Words, properly used, mean something. All socialists have something important in common, socialism. This is something socialists should recognize and attempt to address. Most Democrats in Congress, and some Republicans, could be fairly described as socialists. They have something important in common with Nazis.

Bernie Sanders should be challenged: How does your socialism differ from Hitler’s socialism? Any answer should be something like this: My socialism differs from Hitler’s socialism because ...

[cuz1961]

the left kept using..

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when i hear someone use the nazi word to describe anyone not a socialist i permanently shut them down with

” what ? you ignorant ? Mussolini was the fascist, Stalin was the communist and Hitler was the socialist !!!”

works
every
time

they never try to float that turd within my earshot again.

[Olog-hai]

Was? Try “is” because it’s still around. And it’s not just the Islamic version, first promulgated by the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem but then blown up to huge proportions by Nasser.