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If you do not support removing Nazis from the public sphere, you aren't necessarily a Nazi. But you do support Nazis. That didn't make a difference between 1939 and 1945 and it doesn't make a difference now.
I agree if we're talking about literal, actual Nazis waving the flag and everything. The pushback, which I agree with, begins when people start calling everyone a Nazi, or a fascist. It has got ridiculous, I'm embarrassingly leftist and get accused of it.
You might complain when that practice of conflating slightly differing leftist views with fascism backfires and results in people accidentally defending literal Nazis, but you shouldn't have diluted the term in the first place.
These are literal, actual Nazis waving the flag and everything.
From the article:
Yeah, I get that.
I'm just replying to tell you I hear you. We definitely don't want to lose the weight that word carries. I'm glad the term is being accurately used in this case.