No it didn't, the anti-semitism of the Nazi's had far longer and deeper roots. There was the whole background of decades of racial/national ideologies that built on the already existing prejudices.
I think that the rise of antisemitism in Nazi Germany has lots of relevant lessons to teach us without necessarily having to be all "O noes, Nazis". Violence and discrimination needs certain conditions to prevail in order to flourish, like dehumanisation of the targets, a general normalisation of the notion of violence against them, blame/scapegoating, and so on. Nazi Germany is a stark historical example of those things happening; using it as an example does not mean I'm suggesting that jackboots and black shirts are just around the corner.
No need for you to use his terms
You say this as if the bigotry and racism people are experiencing a spike in is something that just 'happened' because of the rhetoric of the referendum. That's not true. I think you know that also.
Utter tosh. Let's put some context into this , despite what some posters in Planet Urban say the level and type of incidents being reported are not akin to the rise of Hitler in Germany .
I think the sentiment of what he was saying was perfectly clear
If you had been around in the 70s you would have found that the racists actually thought that they did think their views were mainstream and spoke for the majority.
Of course not, but there hasn't been the decades of racial theorising that formed the backdrop to Nazi's, there aren't large numbers of eugenics supporters for example, there isn't the (bar a very few hard right scum) link between "blood and soil" that there was in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century. To pretend that the current situation in Britain is anything link 30s Germany is just unhelpful twaddle.
Yeah, I hear this used as an excuse for old people being racist - 'well everyone was back in their day'. No, everyone wasn't.
And by asking that question are you comparing making a racist joke to racially prejudiced genocide in their severity?
never read comments on articles.The comments on that article are ..... I just shouldn't read them, should I?
hang on, we had this discussion re homophobia on the other thread. Yes, of course racism is racism, but sometimes it is worse than at other times. The racism of the scum who killed Stephen Lawrence was far far worse than the racism of someone who 'doesn't mind individual people from [insert country here]', but thinks that there are too many over here, for whatever reason. There is a difference between those who have some racist ideas, and some non, or even anti-racist, ones, and those who just hate all pakis/niggers/etc If we just lump them all in together, we push those with some soft racist ideas into the hands of the hardened scumbags.
