I am curious about the reason why they were banned.

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      Both Nazism as Communism brought misery to this world. It would be better if they never existed at all.

      I don’t think you can convincingly call him a Nazi.

      username is the name of a weapon used by Nazi Germany

      Weapons are used by different people throughout history. I’m sure the Nazis used knives as well, you shouldn’t go calling everyone a Nazi who gives themselves weapon names.

      ps pls don’t ban me

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        Well, no one called him a Nazi. The problem is that it’s a damn slippery slope, and an extremely unnecessary one at that, to compare Nazis to any group. Panzerfaust by himself wasn’t the problem, the problem is that more extreme people will feel welcome, if that’s the general tone of the discussion.

        As for the name, again, by itself I wouldn’t see it as problematic either. The word “Panzerfaust” is used in German for any type of shoulder-fired rocket launcher, but I also would expect more extreme people to understand it as a reference to Nazism and feel more welcome than they should.

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          This is what I think apologists just can’t figure out.

          So much of the transmission of nazism isn’t outright. It’s purposely put behind plausible deniability, it’s done through signalling, it’s done through co-opting, it’s done through bad faith arguments about mod policy and free speech, it’s done through half-jokes that aren’t really jokes, it’s done by ‘just asking honest questions’ that reinforce nazi framing etc.

          And that in and of itself is enough to do the damage they want to do. Those who are rushing to the defense of these trolls are, for lack of a better term, just serving as useful idiots without realizing it.

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            Hmm Trump has used the ok sign 41 times in public. If he does it 59 times more we will know for sure that he is a Nazi.

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          the problem is that more extreme people will feel welcome, if that’s the general tone of the discussion.

          The communism discussions on lemmy are already quite extreme and so was this mod’s reaction: banning someone for offending your political views — kind extreme, isn’t it?

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            I agree on both of those points and I still think, it’s a necessary evil for multiple reasons:

            1. A ban isn’t actually that harsh of a punishment on here. Sure, Panzerfaust might be done with the platform and he did post some good content. But for him personally, he can find a different instance or a different Reddit alternative. Or if he really wants to stay, he can absolutely just create another account.

            2. No one needs to hold the political opinion that Nazis weren’t that horrible. There’s aspects where free speech is harshly necessary, e.g. if you’re not allowed to criticize your government. But if you’re not allowed to praise the Nazis, that has no impact on anything.

            3. Pretty much all prior Reddit alternatives have been overrun by right-wing extremists. If this Lemmy instance doesn’t want to undergo this same fate, yes, they have to piss off some people. Just tolerating all opinions under the guise of free speech, doesn’t work, if you don’t want right-wing extremists on your platform.

            If you disagree and you’d rather have as little moderation as possible, at the risk of a few right-wing extremists on there, that’s also fine. You can find a different instance or Reddit alternative (as I said, there’s plenty that are overrun by right-wing extremists; who will probably also ban someone for holding left-wing ideas, but yeah, feel free to choose your own poison).

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              1. No one needs to hold the political opinion that Nazis weren’t that horrible

              Who said that? Panzerfaust said that Nazis and Commies are awful and the planet would have had been better off without them. Which we can all agree with, right? No one is praising nazis, what are you even on about.

              Imagine reddit admins banning someone for a comment like this — the fucking site would implode.

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          The nazis and communists were both socailists. Maybe just maybe that is the real problem, the mass of “society” stepping on individuals for some grand believed “betterness”.

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            Or maybe just maybe that is some really fucking dumbass backwards reasoning.

            Most of the socialist structures that existed during Nazi Germany were enacted by Otto von Bismarck in the 1870s and still exist today. The Nazis just called themselves “socialist”, because they didn’t want to call themselves “the bad guys”.

            And the strategies of the Nazis would still work perfectly fine in “raw” capitalism. You just need the general population to be poor and then repeatedly tell them that this is the fault of the Jews/Mexicans/Syrians etc…

            In fact, I would say that a socialist system helps to prevent this type of propaganda acceptance, a.k.a. poorness. In Nazi Germany, it worked anyways, because the general population was just really fucking poor after WWI and the stock market crash in 1929.

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          It’s association with Fascism is overt and self-evident, whereas knives have been internationally used and been around for millennia. They are not the same.

          It’s so strange to me that these entry-level JV debate team arguments people use to defend nazis. These arguments are ridiculous and bad, and not in complicated ways. Like I might debate someone on gun control, and that could at least become a complicated conversation about data, legal arguments, and laws of different countries. I might disagree with all those arguments but they would be based on something.

          But when people defend Nazis, they’re always these amazingly lazy false equivalences and misunderstandings of the basic structure of arguments, from people who seem to have just discovered the wikipedia page for logical fallacies.

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        Nah, they’re definitely a nazi. The soviets paid the cost for a nazi-free world with unimaginable suffering, 26M people killed, nearly half of all soviet housing destroyed via a nazi scorched earth policy. They took on ~ 70% of nazi divisions, and killed / defeated that same amount. The tides were turned at Stalingrad, a full 2 years before the allies joined at normandy, and it was a slow, painful, and bloody march to Berlin. Any “both-sidesing” here is truly disgusting.

        The eastern front in WW2 was the bloodiest, most brutal engagement in the history of warfare (if there are any WW2 buffs out there, this is a good docu series: Soviet Storm.

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          How is that relevant to the current discussion lol

          If you criticize absolute monstrous failure that was soviet union that means you’re a nazi? What moon logic is that?

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        LoL you have to beg to not be banned for expressing that^^ wtf is this place mao’s forum?

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        those arguments are crap, and I’m pretty sure you know it.

        From what I’ve seen around here so far, you’re safe from getting banned unless you show the same patterns of behavior that PF did. I’d seriously be surprised and a bit disappointed if this comment would get you banned.

        the “ps pls don’t ban me” makes me think you might not be acting in good faith though. Hope to be proven wrong.

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        So this place is about identity politics. I suppose because you are a bunch of leftists you ain’t worth talking to because you’ll just delete anything you don’t like which is a lot!

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      Was the issue with the comment that they were anti-communism or something? Because that comment very explicitly doesn’t endorse Nazis.

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      Oh my god he used a suspicious word as his name, the grand fucking crime! /s/s/s/s/s/s/s/removed