I'm getting tired of their masturbation on WW2 History. Fuck it was a dark time but there are more things in life than Hitler and the Nazis.
When you are traumatized it is normal to have a fixation on the trauma but it is not as if they were victims or anything.
They did not suffer the occupation. They have not been in the trenches. They did not lose their loved ones for hiding Jews or for being part of the Resistance. They have not been in concentration and extermination camps. They did not have to flee their own country.
Why are they so obsessed with the past?
If you scratch the surface of an SJW, you'll find a bitter, resentful nerd who never got over being bullied in the fifth grade and has convinced themselves that they will always be the victims of bullying, never the bullies themselves.
The economy of social justice is based upon grievance. The more aggrieved you are, the more social capital you have, so it's necessary to be as aggrieved as possible. Therefore, it is necessary to create more grievances. SJWs have learned that they are doomed to be bullied because of their identities, similar to the Nazi persecution of the Jews. Putting these two together makes sense to them. It gives them a folk devil to compare themselves down to and say, "I'm morally better than you!"
The very idea of the industrialized genocide of entire groups of people taps into a big, mythic fear: the sense that there is real evil in the world, that the innocent often suffer, that we may be powerless against the powerful. We tell such stories because we are afraid of powerful, unnameable things. These stories give those fears a shape and a name and a horrifying face, and somehow that can be more reassuring than allowing such fears to remain amorphous and existential. And just like vampire and ghost stories, Satanist stories have their own sets of rules, details and basic outlines with which we’re all familiar. These give the stories their own kind of reality.
None of these stories work as stories if we undercut their impact by acknowledging that there’s no such thing as ghosts or vampires or Nazis in the White House. To tell these stories well, we have to pretend these things are real. To hear these stories well, our readers have to agree to go along. This conceit usually involves only the willing suspension of disbelief, but for those who really get caught up in them — those particularly afraid already, because they have learned that the bullies are real to them — that storytelling suspension of disbelief turns into the expulsion of disbelief, the abandonment of skepticism in real life. The fearful and the fear-prone come to believe that the ghost stories and urban legends are really true. They really believe that there are roaming gangs of Neo-Nazis killing in broad daylight and the President's behest, and no one else seems to care, or even notice.
They
need these stories to be true.
Need. It's the fuel in their furnace. They need villains as horrible as fascist Nazis if they want to be heroes. Like any self-deception, it works better as part of a group. The retweeting of such things isn't just a display of piety, it’s intended to invite others to participate with you in deception.
Are you afraid you might be a coward? Join us in pretending to believe this lie and you can pretend to feel brave. Are you afraid that your life is meaningless? Join us in pretending to believe this lie and you can pretend your life has purpose. Are you afraid you’re mired in mediocrity? Join us in pretending to believe this lie and you can pretend to feel like a hero. Are you worried that you won’t be able to forget that you’re just pretending and that all those good feelings will thus seem hollow and empty? Join us and we will pretend it’s true for you if you will pretend it’s true for us. We need each other.
You can’t be doing well if it seems like an improvement to base your life and your sense of self on a demonizing slander that you know is only a fantasy. To challenge that fantasy, to identify it as nothing more than that, is to threaten to send them back to whatever their lives were like before they latched onto this desperate alternative. And yet somehow, living in a word where a third a of the US are Hitler-worshipping Neo-Nazis is better than where they were before.
