Is This a Joke?

Like most things from the left lately, it's not very funny.

Saw this in my feed today.

Many people believed (myself included) that no one set out to just offer blind support to Nazis in WWII. Rather, we assumed, they were slowly coaxed, little-by-little to see a certain group of people as their ideological enemies, then to see those people as a grave threat to their lives and livelihoods and last, to need to fit in with a majority calling for violence against those they assume must have at least done something wrong to incur this much collective outrage.

But lately, I see something else. People are aligning with straight up, bona fide, anti-Semitic, vocally anti-gay and pro white, racial supremacist (old school, not Neo) Nazis. These people think they have to pick between Nazis and Putin- or worse! They imagine if they don't support actual Nazis, someone they know might mistake them for a Trump supporter. They couldn't have that. Better (they think) to cheer for and make excuses for literal Nazis in that case than to be a fence walker who won't cheer for the latest cause (which happens to be undeniably fucked up Nazis). "Don't want my friends confusing me for a right winger, anything but that. That would be social suicide."

So if you ask yourself, "How does one come to support Nazis?"

The answer is shockingly simple: they have lost all perspective on reality.

We have a pretty accurate label for people who would rather destroy themselves, shut themselves in, become antisocial and dysfunctional than face the exposure of people *possibly* but most likely NOT looking at them and seeing them as they are- out in public. It's called agoraphobia, paranoia or scopophobia. In any case, it's a mental disorder.

Loudly, proudly and vocally supporting Nazis and sharing that stance with everyone you know to camouflage yourself in the crowd because you are afraid of what other people -who aren't even looking at you, mind you- might think of you if they happened to notice you (which they won't if you aren't saying anything and drawing attention to yourself unnecessarily)...

It's STILL a sign of a mental illness.

No one said you have to pick a side or even talk about any of it.

The more I see the most outspoken, ANTI- anti-Semitic people straight up praising literal Nazis, the more I feel like this is all some kind of psychological operation or a joke. Someone somewhere might just be super proud of the trick they've pulled off on most of society. Maybe this person or group of people are laughing.

I can’t imagine a world in which supporting an organization directly and unapologetically responsible for the genocide of 33,000 Jews and 37,000 Poles during WWII is remotely funny. I can’t. I don’t.