Well, it's not like all the "real" Nazis were actually horrible people...at least to start with. Many of them were just normal people caught up in the reality of the situation...until one day they woke up and they were Nazis...real Nazis...not just someone forced into a situation.
Whether people want to admit it or not, tons of people shit on "white" people. The modern American "white" person has no connection to any sort of heritage or whatever. In reality a large number of them are actually mixed races, German, Irish, Scandinavian, Norwegian, etc. They don't have any connection to that ancestry though, so all they have is society constantly shitting on them for being "white" and "privileged", while in reality they likely have any number of troubles just like everyone else. So perhaps they do latch onto the only heritage they can find, being white, which only has a heritage of racism, because it's not an actual race. So, yeah, it's probably fully possible for people to be "bullied" into racism.
Of course, reality is always far more complex. They might not have set out to be racists, but one thing leads to another, and they wake up Nazis.
As to the whole left wing thing...I myself am far left wing...and extremely liberal. I sort of get confused when people talk about the far left wing and liberals, because they so often talk about things that confuse me. Like people talk about Democrats being far left. Most of them are centrist. Even Bernie Sanders isn't "far" left wing. He's exactly along the lines of the standard left wing politics. His politics might as well be in a political party's pamphlet they're so standard. Of course, if they lie and call someone like Hillary Clinton left wing, or even centrist, he probably looks far left. I'd say if the left wing had it's own set of wings, she'd be on the right.
But politics are complicated and people are people. We'd probably have to sit down with a bunch of charts and come up with a point system on what makes someone left wing or liberal.
I personally think that people that are for removing people's rights, even if it's for egalitarian purposes, aren't really "liberal", and where they fall on the left wing is up for debate. For that reason, there are many that are considered on the "far left" that are a bit complicated to actually define. In one sense, they are radical, in another, they don't really fit among many of the other left wing people. But there are a lot of people like that. There are a lot of people of all different types that make up groups in the left wing that don't really fit among the rest.
At one time I would have possibly said similar about the "Right Wing", but they've sort of been lock step lately, and incorporated much of the far right into their "core".
Well, it's not like all the "real" Nazis were actually horrible people...at least to start with. Many of them were just normal people caught up in the reality of the situation...until one day they woke up and they were Nazis...real Nazis...not just someone forced into a situation.
Whether people want to admit it or not, tons of people shit on "white" people. The modern American "white" person has no connection to any sort of heritage or whatever. In reality a large number of them are actually mixed races, German, Irish, Scandinavian, Norwegian, etc. They don't have any connection to that ancestry though, so all they have is society constantly shitting on them for being "white" and "privileged", while in reality they likely have any number of troubles just like everyone else. So perhaps they do latch onto the only heritage they can find, being white, which only has a heritage of racism, because it's not an actual race. So, yeah, it's probably fully possible for people to be "bullied" into racism.
Of course, reality is always far more complex. They might not have set out to be racists, but one thing leads to another, and they wake up Nazis.
As to the whole left wing thing...I myself am far left wing...and extremely liberal. I sort of get confused when people talk about the far left wing and liberals, because they so often talk about things that confuse me. Like people talk about Democrats being far left. Most of them are centrist. Even Bernie Sanders isn't "far" left wing. He's exactly along the lines of the standard left wing politics. His politics might as well be in a political party's pamphlet they're so standard. Of course, if they lie and call someone like Hillary Clinton left wing, or even centrist, he probably looks far left. I'd say if the left wing had it's own set of wings, she'd be on the right.
But politics are complicated and people are people. We'd probably have to sit down with a bunch of charts and come up with a point system on what makes someone left wing or liberal.
I personally think that people that are for removing people's rights, even if it's for egalitarian purposes, aren't really "liberal", and where they fall on the left wing is up for debate. For that reason, there are many that are considered on the "far left" that are a bit complicated to actually define. In one sense, they are radical, in another, they don't really fit among many of the other left wing people. But there are a lot of people like that. There are a lot of people of all different types that make up groups in the left wing that don't really fit among the rest.
At one time I would have possibly said similar about the "Right Wing", but they've sort of been lock step lately, and incorporated much of the far right into their "core".
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