Who Goes Nazi? (1941)

rdevilla

Apparently, whoever society calls a Nazi. Something of a self fulfilling prophecy, that.

hrimfaxi

> Kind, good, happy, gentlemanly, secure people never go Nazi. They may be the gentle philosopher whose name is in the Blue Book, or Bill from City College to whom democracy gave a chance to design airplanes—you’ll never make Nazis out of them. But the frustrated and humiliated intellectual, the rich and scared speculator, the spoiled son, the labor tyrant, the fellow who has achieved success by smelling out the wind of success—they would all go Nazi in a crisis. > Believe me, nice people don’t go Nazi. Their race, color, creed, or social condition is not the criterion. It is something in them. > Those who haven’t anything in them to tell them what they like and what they don’t—whether it is breeding, or happiness, or wisdom, or a code, however old-fashioned or however modern, go Nazi. It’s an amusing game. Try it at the next big party you go to. Back an animal against the wall and out come the fangs. The rate at which "once in a lifetime" events have unfolded in the past two decades is making it increasingly hard for society to mint kind, good, happy, gentlemanly, and most importantly, _secure_ people.

lithocarpus

"That is his sole measure of value—success. Nazism as a minority movement would not attract him. As a movement likely to attain power, it would."

comrade1234

This is one of my favorite photos: https://www.theholocaustexplained.org/resistance-responses-c... This would be me to my detriment. I totally can't read a room and I do what I think is right. I've also passed over job opportunities in defense/intelligence (and the porn industry) because I know they were wrong. I could have much more money and wealth than I have now. What's wrong with me? I sometimes do think this is a flaw in myself. I have friends that work for Google and Facebook and I don't know how they do it.

josefritzishere

This could have been written yesterday.