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Topic	Communist symbols as offensive as Nazi symbols?
Sahuagin 11/08/18 12:49:16 AM #29:	_AdjI_ posted... darkknight109 posted... That being said, the communists were generally more equal-opportunity-slaughterers where the Nazis opted to single out specific groups for butchery - specifically Jews, non-whites, the Romani, and gays (as well as leftists and intellectuals, if we're counting those imprisoned and killed for their opinions rather than for who they were). Accordingly, that's how their symbols are frequently used today - Nazi symbols are used by hate groups to rally for white supremacy, while Communist symbols are usually used to agitate (sometimes violently) for equality and economic change. Hence why communist symbols are generally more tolerated than Nazi iconography. Basically. Communism's association with genocide was a matter of the Soviet's practices, not the ideology itself. Nazism's association with genocide was entirely a matter of the ideology. As such, Communism's more acceptable as an ideology than Nazism, and their respective symbols follow suit. communism targets a group, it's just not (necessarily) a racial group, it's whoever is determined to have "power". in Soviet Russia it was the Kulaks (rich farmers). maybe you could say that the communists had a relatively small genocide that just happened to directly lead to astronomical death rates due to famine (which is what happens when you slaughter all of the most competent farmers in the country), whereas the nazis had a significantly larger genocide. then I suppose the nazis were technically worse, but that's not saying much. --- *The truth basks in scrutiny.* https://imgur.com/GMouTGs http://projecteuler.net/profile/Sahuagin.png <cite>Sahuagin posted [p:912026647] in Communist ... [t:77176659]...</cite> <quote><cite>_AdjI_ posted...</cite> <quote><cite>darkknight109 posted...</cite> <quote>That being said, the communists were generally more equal-opportunity-slaughterers where the Nazis opted to single out specific groups for butchery - specifically Jews, non-whites, the Romani, and gays (as well as leftists and intellectuals, if we're counting those imprisoned and killed for their opinions rather than for who they were). Accordingly, that's how their symbols are frequently used today - Nazi symbols are used by hate groups to rally for white supremacy, while Communist symbols are usually used to agitate (sometimes violently) for equality and economic change. Hence why communist symbols are generally more tolerated than Nazi iconography.</quote> Basically. Communism's association with genocide was a matter of the Soviet's practices, not the ideology itself. Nazism's association with genocide was entirely a matter of the ideology. As such, Communism's more acceptable as an ideology than Nazism, and their respective symbols follow suit.</quote> communism targets a group, it's just not (necessarily) a racial group, it's whoever is determined to have "power". in Soviet Russia it was the Kulaks (rich farmers). maybe you could say that the communists had a relatively small genocide that just happened to directly lead to astronomical death rates due to famine (which is what happens when you slaughter all of the most competent farmers in the country), whereas the nazis had a significantly larger genocide. then I suppose the nazis were technically worse, but that's not saying much. --- The truth basks in scrutiny. https://imgur.com/GMouTGs http://projecteuler.net/profile/Sahuagin.png</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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