I was chatting with my mom on the phone the other day, and when I told her about a political realization I had recently made, she was like, “Eric, I am 79 years old and that had never occurred to me. You MUST do a Daily Kos diary about it."
I’m a bit skeptical as to exactly how Earth-shattering this really is, but nevertheless, here goes...
You know how white supremacists will often refer to themselves as ‘Nationalists’ and/or ‘White Nationalists’? Well guess what — when they use the term ‘Nationalist’, they are literally calling themselves NAZIS. Because Nazi is just short for the German pronunciation of the German word, “National”.
From Wikipedia:
The full name of Adolf Hitler's party was Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (National-Socialist German Workers' Party; NSDAP). The shorthand Nazi was formed from the first two syllables of the German pronunciation of the word "national" (IPA: [na-tsi̯-o-ˈnaːl]).[4]
Maybe these monsters knew we were getting close to cracking their Enigma code - it would explain why they are switching to the term “Alt-Right”. That’s another discussion in and of itself, because while they claim it is short for “Alternative Right”, in German, alt means ancient, which surely fits with their Wagnerian concepts of racial destiny, etc. At the very least, I bet they are psyched to have a German word hidden in their moniker.
Long story short: These assholes really want a name that dog-whistles their love for Hitler.
How about you? Did you realize what Nationalist means?
(Or did I just blow your mind? LoL)
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