{"id":245,"date":"2006-01-19T23:59:38","date_gmt":"2006-01-20T06:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/?p=245"},"modified":"2006-01-20T02:08:58","modified_gmt":"2006-01-20T09:08:58","slug":"dont-remind-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/19\/dont-remind-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Fascists. I hate those guys."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Anti-fascism<\/p>\n

A Fistful of Euros<\/a> has an interesting discussion about a case in Germany where an earnest young person was fined for wearing a button with a swastika on it. Never mind that it was a “circle-slash” button, a piece of anti-racist\/anti-Nazi propoganda.
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\n“In the eyes of this sort of German, the harm caused by the student\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s button is not that Japanese tourists will mistakenly think the student a nazi. The harm is that they will be reminded, correctly, that many Germans were once nazis.”<\/em><\/p>\n

While we’re talking fascists and their opponents, there’s a story I’ve been trying to get to the bottom of here in Austria, but can’t breach the language barrier. Austria’s notorious populist, Joerg Haider, is making a big stink (again). This time it’s over a law that has – since 1955! – required that his state post bilingual road signs in Slovenian and German. They do this down in Sudtirol, in Italy – the signs are in German and Italian. Haider really <\/em>doesn’t want to do this, I’m unclear on why. Folks in my state of Steiermark, when asked about it, tend to respond a “Dude, he’s a nutcase” manner. This might be true but doesn’t help my understanding of the story any. Thankfully, The Glory of Carniola<\/a> posts English commentary on the story, and, it’s funny in a “fascists are morons!” sort of way. <\/p>\n

Quit poking me. German class starts Feb 7. Plus, I’m not a total cretin. I can order coffee – no small feat in Austria<\/a> – but I can’t understand political reporting. I’m relying on a recently discovered trove of damn fine blogging by folks who are better integrated in to their adoptive home countries than I am. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Fistful of Euros has an interesting discussion about a case in Germany where an earnest young person was fined for wearing a button with a swastika on it. Never mind that it was a “circle-slash” button, a piece of anti-racist\/anti-Nazi propoganda. “In the eyes of this sort of German, the harm caused by the … <\/p>\n


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