Here’s the deal.<\/p>\n
If someone calls you a nazi sympathizer, they’re not saying you’re a nazi. They’re literally saying you sympathize with nazis, that you have sympathy for them.<\/p>\n
Nazi sympathy can manifest in various ways.<\/p>\n
If you think nazis should have an uncontested freedom to speak in the public sphere, you’re offering them sympathy.<\/p>\n
If you think that their violence is just as bad as violence from the left, you’re offering them sympathy.<\/p>\n
If you are quick to call out the left for their apparent hate and violence but have yet to call out the violence and hate of nazis, you’re offering them sympathy.<\/p>\n
Any time you try to in any way minimize the seriousness of the radical messages of racism, nationalism, bigotry, and xenophobia of the nazis, you’re offering them sympathy.<\/p>\n
If someone calls you a nazi sympathizer, listen. Understand what it is you’re saying that tells people you’re not fully condemning nazis.<\/p>\n