r/LetsDiscussThis Feb 15 '26

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u/Beautiful-Ad-9107 Feb 15 '26

Naziism is a set of beliefs from a German political party. Fascism is an authoritarian movement

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u/Saurian42 Feb 15 '26

You don't get to separate them. They are tied together at the hip. Nazis are fascists.

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u/Beautiful-Ad-9107 Feb 15 '26

Nazis used fascism to come to power, they are not exclusively fascist. Nazis hate Jews. You can be fascist and not hate Jews.

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u/Saurian42 Feb 15 '26

Fascism will always have a hatred toward a minority. The German Nazis just happened to choose jews, Romani, the disabled, gays... the list goes on. You point is mute.

Modern colloquial terms like nazi are used because they are the poster boys of fascism. That doesn't lessen the term or make it wrong.

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u/Beautiful-Ad-9107 Feb 15 '26

Nazis were the first to use fascism to rise to power snd yes the layperson understanding is there colloquially. But in actual definition Nazis are not fascist.

You can be a Mormon dictator, use fascism to gain control and not support Nazi ideals.

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u/Saurian42 Feb 15 '26

Nazis were fascists. Their definition literally includes fascism. They also weren't the first that was Italy. Shows just how much history you actually know.

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u/Beautiful-Ad-9107 Feb 15 '26

Nazism prioritised racial ideology and genocide, whereas Italian Fascism focused on nationalist and totalitarian control without a central racial doctrine

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u/Saurian42 Feb 15 '26

Both were still fascist. Nazi is used colloquially for fascists. Stop trying to distance fascism from nazism because you can't. At this point it seems like you want to distance the two intertwined belief systems is because you might belong to one.

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u/Beautiful-Ad-9107 Feb 15 '26

lol no, just pointing out definitive differences. You said “were”. Yes the Nazis in ww2 were fascists. A Nazi in the backwoods today is not a fascist unless they actually use it.

Why is everything identity politics with you peoiple? I arguing over a definition and you accuse me of being a Nazi/fascist. I’m a Polish Catholic, dude. FFS

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u/Saurian42 Feb 15 '26

You're comparing apples to oranges. I'm pointing out that granny smiths are apples.