FIGHTING HITLER TODAY

You would think— well, at least I think(!)— that we would have learned the lesson of history with the disasters that Hitler brought about on this planet and the World War that followed that eventually stopped him. His ideas of white supremacy led him to think he had the right to terminate inferior races that led to all sorts of human evil to humans.

Question: What drove him into such sick thinking? Answer: His own sick state of inferiority and his ugly “solution” by putting others down so he could lift himself up. See Games Hitler Played (Feb. 2000) which is on www.neurosemantics.com for an analysis of the frames that drove him and some of the historical factors that led to that disaster.

The tragedy over the weekend by the fanatical “white racists” (the neo-Nazis) in Charlettsville Virginia sadly indicates that the thought viruses that informed Hitler continues to feed hate and shameful prejudice. From a psychological perspective, I would guess that those who are attracted to that message but similarly struggle with low self-esteem and falsely think that they will help themselves by putting others down. An obviously toxic way of thinking!

True enough, the first amendment of the US Constitution gives them and others the right to speak whatever they want to speak even if it is wrong and stupid. We do not have “free speech” only when we are right. Even ignorant and uninformed people, even prejudiced people have the right for “free speech.” What free speech does not give is the right to do is to hurt, hit, or wound those who disagree. This is where protests is one thing, riots are another.

As it takes two to have a fight, I say this to the anti-protesters —stay away. While I agree with you about anyone who is racist and especially anyone who is a neo-Nazis — if there were no anti-protesters present at the protest, then the neo-Nazis protesters would have no one to fight with! Let them protest the removal of a statute. So what? Let them say whatever stupid things they want to say. Stay home and stop giving them energy and someone to fight.

Social movements and beliefs grow with there is resistance. The resistance feeds it. As long as the neo-Nazis do not have any “power” to actually do anything, the best way to fight them is to leave them alone! Treat the non-sense of their idealogy as irrelevant and meaningless. When we fight a psychological error of stupidity, we give it energy. We treat it as real. Conversely, when we treat it in the same way we would treat someone’s idea of alien’s possessing human bodies —the idea gets little attention, little energy, and hopefully will pass.