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Sunday 20 August 2017

The Nazi That Wasn't


Nazis, in general were horrible people. People known for their hatred of the Jews and being German. Despite Nazis being horrible people, not all the horrible people can be categorized in this world as Nazis. Furthermore, this distinction is important, and not everyone who is evil can be called a Nazi.

Nazis were founded by Hitler in 1925, they spread terror and killed millions of Jews, minorities, and many other types of people. Their reign of terror has scarred the world. So much so that, often people who see anything that looks like a Nazi, people will immediately count someone as a Nazi.

To further add to this confusion would be Neo Nazis, who are a group of people who follow the Nazis way, but with some added jargon. These people hate the Jews and are racist. These people, for want of better words are the real Nazis of the day.

While they are not really Nazis, as Nazis, where just Germans or people who fought for Hitler, maybe not necessarily always sharing his ideals or committing or the horrible atrocious as many did, but Nazis any way. With Neo Nazis, they are just people who worship Hitler and some of his ideals.

Although seeming, unimportant this distinction, it really is, as not all evil people are Nazis. Furthermore, it is too broad description, and it makes it all to easy to lessen what happened to the Jews and all the other people who died because of the Nazis. Because if the description of a Nazi is someone who is mean or just is racist, then many people are Nazis, and that would be inaccurate, but also making Nazis seem less horrific. 

Furthermore, sometimes if you mis-caterogize something, it means that it can be harder to deal with an issue. Take for instance, the so many words we use to describe a disease. If they all had the same word, we wouldn't know how to treat each problem differently. Like trying to deal with cancer in the same way you would deal with a heart attack. 

Nazis are evil people and so can others who seem like that. However, if we don’t make the distinction between the two, we will find that people are classified more evil or good than they really are. There are levels of evil in this world, and if we do not categorize them correctly, we may find we may call others who look like them when they are not. So thus, making a world that is more hateful than it should be.

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