I dont think its hard to empathize with nazis. I can understand why they do what they do and how they came to their beliefs. I would even go as far as calling some of them victims like you would call scientology members victims. At the same time i can be of the opinion that their belief set is incompatible with the world i want to see and that rehabilitating them is out of scope.
Having empathy doesnt mean allowing people to trample over you.
The thing that unites most of the “racist Nazis” is desperation.
Especially, in the U.S. the erosion of the middle class is forcing families to be either upper or lower class.
The lower class families are struggling and have been struggling for quite sometime. They experience day to day, the struggles of keeping their jobs, keeping food on the table, not to mention trying to fulfill the dream of having a holiday.
These people see “illegal” immigrants working in the fields on their way to their minimum wage job. They hear on the news how “more jobs are being created”, yet they’re still stuck in their dead-end job and they’re the lucky ones. Their friend Pete’s been in between jobs for a few years now. Pete can’t get a job 'cause these immigrants work for pennies on the dollar and Pete’s got a family to feed.
They’re all desperate, they’re cornered. Then they become hateful. They see anyone who is not in the same situation as them is “the enemy”. The people who are stealing a piece of their pie (ie the illegal immigrants) need to be stopped, but they aren’t because corporate greed is funding this.
Then on the news, you hear about a messiah. He promises change, he understands the injustice you face on a daily basis. “The System” that claims “everything is fine and is only getting better” is fuming about the messiah. Your distrust of the System, combined with their knee-jerk reaction, makes you wonder “hmmm… maybe this is the change I need… any change would be better than the stagnation we’re currently facing”.
So, they go and vote for a wannabe dictator.
disclaimer: these are not my opinions, but merely my empathy (I know of these people) . This is also a similar sense of desperation that lead to World War 2.
Yeah, but then those little creatures be racist Nazis and empathizing gets difficult :/
I dont think its hard to empathize with nazis. I can understand why they do what they do and how they came to their beliefs. I would even go as far as calling some of them victims like you would call scientology members victims. At the same time i can be of the opinion that their belief set is incompatible with the world i want to see and that rehabilitating them is out of scope.
Having empathy doesnt mean allowing people to trample over you.
The thing that unites most of the “racist Nazis” is desperation.
Especially, in the U.S. the erosion of the middle class is forcing families to be either upper or lower class.
The lower class families are struggling and have been struggling for quite sometime. They experience day to day, the struggles of keeping their jobs, keeping food on the table, not to mention trying to fulfill the dream of having a holiday.
These people see “illegal” immigrants working in the fields on their way to their minimum wage job. They hear on the news how “more jobs are being created”, yet they’re still stuck in their dead-end job and they’re the lucky ones. Their friend Pete’s been in between jobs for a few years now. Pete can’t get a job 'cause these immigrants work for pennies on the dollar and Pete’s got a family to feed.
They’re all desperate, they’re cornered. Then they become hateful. They see anyone who is not in the same situation as them is “the enemy”. The people who are stealing a piece of their pie (ie the illegal immigrants) need to be stopped, but they aren’t because corporate greed is funding this.
Then on the news, you hear about a messiah. He promises change, he understands the injustice you face on a daily basis. “The System” that claims “everything is fine and is only getting better” is fuming about the messiah. Your distrust of the System, combined with their knee-jerk reaction, makes you wonder “hmmm… maybe this is the change I need… any change would be better than the stagnation we’re currently facing”.
So, they go and vote for a wannabe dictator.
disclaimer: these are not my opinions, but merely my empathy (I know of these people) . This is also a similar sense of desperation that lead to World War 2.