How do I keep running into idiots who are positive they are intelligent?

Does the South no longer require history in schools, or do they just teach "alternative facts?" The Nazis were not really socialists. Only someone with no education would believe that. This site is getting extremely frustrating to be on. How do you converse with someone who is completely ignorant, but is positive they are right? When did we decide that education was bad and that ignorance was cool?

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Cierzo · M

This is a neverending discussion. Certainly nazism they were anti-marxist, but there are different trends in socialism. There were utopian socialist. There is social-anarchism. And national-socialism.

SW-User

National Socialism" includes the word "socialism", but it is just a word. Hitler and the Nazis outlawed socialism, and executed socialists and communists en masse, even before they started rounding up Jews. In 1933, the Dachau concentration camp held socialists and leftists exclusively.
Yeah. Sounds like we should spend a lot of time discussing it...

Cierzo · M

@Laifu1: I think you fear is someone uses the nazis to give a bad name to socialism as a whole, and it is understandable.
The word socialism on its own does not mean anything any more, unless it is made clear if one means democratic socialism, communism or what