Shock Mom and Dad: Become a Neo-Nazi (Right Wing Extremism in Germany)

Der Spiegel ^ | May 23, 2005 | Dominik Cziesche and 5 Co-Authors

[Semper Paratus]

Like that kid in Eurotrip, just pencil in a 'stache, goosestep around the house and watch the fun begin.

[Lee'sGhost]

Uh, shouldn't that be "Left" Wing Extremism in Germany?

[Freemyland]

I think I recently received one or two (or 500) e-mails about this same subject.

[End Times Sentinel]

You know, the saddest thing about europe isn't that they can't reproduce fast enough to survive, or that they've turned their back on God assuring a pointless life and eternal damnation, or even that they're becoming a muslim caliphate.  It's that they're so universally left wing that "right wing" simply means a nationalist bent to socialism.  Nothing even remotely approaching American Conservatism exists in that God forsaken land.

 

Owl_Eagle

(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,

 it was probably sarcasm)

[tiamat]

Most Nazi idiots can't tell the difference.

[Rosemont]

Socialism has killed Europe.

[Who dat?]

…are increasingly rebelling by turning to right-wing extremism. Neo-nazi fashion,

I never spent a lot of time or energy familiarizing myself with Germans. At any rate, I was always under the impression that “nazi” was an abbreviated form – or acronym or something – but it had to do with national SOCIALISTS.

That’s what I recall anyway. If it is the case, you’ll have hell trying to reconcile “socialist” with “right-wing” unless you’ve goofy like those guys that made the old Chinese maps that were always oriented with north pointing down.

[infidel29]

You'd think being in THE FREAKIN' HOME OF NAZIISM they'd know that "National Socialism" is a LEFT WING concept.

[farmfriend]

Uh, shouldn't that be "Left" Wing Extremism in Germany?

That is what I thought. It is not the first time I have heard Nazi being used in conjunction with Right Wing, mostly by the media. In their eyes, everything evil is right wing.

[wideawake]

Nothing even remotely approaching American Conservatism exists in that God forsaken land.

There are small groups of Evangelical Free Churches and traditional Catholics who are not allergic to capitalism but are allergic to collectivism.

The CSU of Bavaria is closer to the GOP than any other party on the Continent.

[dead]

At this point, if you're a German who hasn't eaten a homosexual lover, you're in the more normal half of the population.

Germans love Hasslehoff (with a nice Reisling.)

[blueblazes]

Actually most of what these kids are supposedly saying is true. Germany DOES have tons of "immigrants" who create problems for them and many of them live on the dole and are violent. So what's wrong with the young people noting that and wanting it to change? What's wrong with people wanting to have their own country to themselves?

[hobbes1]

I was just asking myself the same question.

[rockthecasbah]

"they've turned their back on God"

Sadly ironic since, correct me if I'm wrong, that is the birth place (Germany) of Martin Luther.

[infidel29]

Welcome to FR.

[ElectricStrawberry]

...but in school, it's taught that Naziism is "RIGHT-wing extremism"...so the truth is irrelevant. Point out the socialism aspect and you're just gonna get a bad grade.

[RegulatorCountry]

""National Socialism" is a LEFT WING concept."

It's slightly to the right of Stalinist era communism, which is the original source of the description. That both are far to the left is not deemed worthy of noting. Particularly in the US, where it is a nonsensical, but very useful, tool in silencing conservative thought and speech.

[infidel29]

It comes from the aftermath of WWII when the NYSlimes and the other major media of the time fell in love with communism. They couldn't have the American people thinking that the beloved communists were a more extreme version of the evil we had just defeated. So they labeled socialists (Nazis and Fascists) as right wing to explain the fact that the Soviets had fought on our side. It also falsely put the US to the left of center since we as a people were opposed to the Nazis.