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Thread #120986   Message #2645524
Posted By: artbrooks
01-Jun-09 - 09:41 AM
Thread Name: BS: BNP: What would you do?
Subject: RE: BS: BNP: What would you do?
Just because I am a sometimes-student of history and a notorious pedant, I see a need to throw this in. The BNP are clearly racists, and their platform is focused on this single issue. The Nazis were certainly racists but the National Socialist Workers Party had a very solid set of political and economic goals (like them or not), which attracted many early party members as much as, if not more than, their "Aryan" focus on Germany for the Germans and the Greater Reich. It isn't really correct to refer to the BNP as Nazis...they have all of the Nazis' truly wretched qualities but none of their somewhat better ones.