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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: epicure who wrote (60628)4/21/2008 8:53:55 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 541835
 
So someone who never joined or supported the party, had a family history of opposition to the party and their ideas, but was essentially drafted in to the Hitler youth is a Nazi.

OK, if you want to use that definition, but by that definition being a Nazi isn't so bad.

And what do we call people who did join the party and support the cause? Do we have to come up with some other term like "real Nazi" or "serious Nazi"? I'd just as soon use Nazi and limit the term to that, if not to "join the party and support the cause", at very least to "join the part, or supported the cause, or identified with and supported the ideas after the fact" (although the last is usually called "neo-nazi".

but I bet if ...oh...Clinton had been in the Hitler Youth

If Clinton had been drafted in to the Hitler Youth I wouldn't call him a Nazi, at least not if he didn't also support Nazi policies and ideas.
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