It's my impression that this generation of young men don't have nearly as much of a negative reaction to being called Nazis as any generation before them, mainly (I think) because it's now just been too long and it's too abstract a term, it's just a meaningless insult to them.
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Kids in the USA don't know what it's like to have someone actually be trying to kill you unless they have been in a school shooting.
If you're seeing Hitler's face and not getting angry, something is wrong.
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Loomed. Past tense.
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When that history still felt alive there was an understanding in how they weren't separate from each-other, how one thing lead to another.
The Nazis didn't run on a plattform of extermination camps
The definitely don’t have the same visceral response as me, they equate it with general racism and other bigotry.
It came to mean just someone, well, mean and strict
That said, the passage of time, and the current sympathy toward actual Nazis, is also a thing.