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my plan is to take all the fascists and read them Harry Potter and explain how they're the Slytherins and liberals are the Gryffindors

meanwhile you tankies are the death eaters

Critical support to the guy who kidnapped a racist and made her watch all of Roots then let her go though

"Noooo, killing Nazis makes you just as hateful as the Nazis!", I yell, as my black and queer neighbors are being arrested and transported to a nearby Nazi concentration camp for being untermenschen.

The premise of American History X doesn't even bear out this stupid fucking idea. The story isn't about a guy watching a movie-as-cautionary-tale. It's about a neo nazi idealist who has his ideology crushed to smithereens by the consequences he endured as a direct result of that ideology. Fascism came home and ruined his life and his family. He hit rock bottom.

You know what also has a rock bottom? The

The story of redemption isn't him just leaving the life. It's also him trying to save his brother and other disaffected kids from doing the same. He is going to live a life trapped inside the box his younger self placed him in. He's out of the prison he didn't make and now inside the one he did make. He'll be there forever or until fascism dies.

I might not be the smartest about analyzing film but I always thought the entire point was that he couldn't call it even just because he called it quits. There was work to be done.

AHX is a terrible film to deradicalize someone with. It doesn't actually even begin to address why the viewer should not be fascist.

The habit of accusing people that disagree with them of mental illness, with the implication that mental illness makes them bad and despicable people, is far, far too common.

I don't have a plan at all but I know someone smarter than me can come up with one.

Oh wait someone smarter than me DID come up with one? Okay but not that one!

I always enjoy reminding people how actual nazis were treated by liberals i.e. with kid gloves.

cw for the link: mentions of bbq'ed nazi and a lot of handwringing about sorting the fash into harry potter houses instead of actually judging them for their crimes:

"I remember talking to Soviet officers," he adds. "And they were baffled. "You know they're guilty," they'd say. 'Why don't you just shoot them?'" There was a lot of that kind of feeling in postwar Germany."

How authoritarian to make someone watch a movie

That's what they do in North Korea, they make you watch the movies that Dear Leader made with kidnapped movie stars and if you don't clap at the end, your seat flips upside down and drops you into a cave where you're forced to mine popcorn the rest of your life

They just need to watch one movie and they will stop hating jews, gays, blacks, women, etc.

Most Americans are mentally ill because they can't afford to see a therapist.

I hate everything about this sentence.

I'm all for the Puyi treatment for fascists but also I'm not gonna cry too hard if they insist on the wall instead.

Nazis fucking love American History X. They look up to the main character, see him as a badass.

Of course, when the evil commies suggest re-education or de-radicalization of far right elements they are being evil authoritarians and are brainwashing people. No way to win with these folk. their anti-communism overrides everything else.

ok mr hitler you're hereby sentenced to movie night

This is why we won WW2 by showing massive screenings of To Kill a Mockingbird

Broke: kill all nazis

Woke: we are going after the liberals when theres no more nazis

Fuckin liberals man, god damn…

Someone in that exchange made a good point that seems to work on liberals. Ask them what should be done with pedophiles. Should we just let them organize and spread their influence? Should we allow them to march in the street or talk to children?

Or should there be a system of punishment and/or re-education to deal with them

Liberals are so forgiving of Nazis in a way that's just ludicrous. Part of it is they don't see fascists as a threat. They don't see anything as a threat (except maybe the concept of Russia itself). Everything's just fine and cool, this is the best time in human history, we just a few minor tweeks and history is over.

You see the reason why hitler happened is because people didn't not hate him strong enough.

You're laughing. He presents you with the cure that brought Ye back and you're laughing.