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When everyone excitedly builds their Hitler Youth airplanes (multiple) and rushes red-cheeked out to the winter fields to merrily trim them for the best glide—look at them soar just so!—they mustn't forget to make a replica Hitler Youth pin as well and attach it prominently on their shirt collars. Otherwise they wouldn't be getting the full experience (nor the essential reminder of the historic origins of fascism). In fact, best do it every day the winds are calm and the skies clear, lest the lessons fade. (That may have sounded better in the original German.) Then again, maybe it just isn't the same without obtaining an actual Hitler Youth pin to wear. The authenticity would put a smile on those bright shining faces!
Three for three so far on mention of "wokeism," the modern derogatory term for valuing the lives and experiences of those different from oneself. (Note that the origins of the term "stay woke" include that of warnings to watch out for non-obvious violent white supremacists. Not noted to accuse anyone of such, but to actually speak about historic fascism in an American context.)
Where exactly do I draw the line? It's on obtaining enjoyment from, and promulgating, the literal propaganda materials used by the Nazis to indoctrinate children into seeking the extermination of Jews, gay people, disabled people, and many thousands more. Document it? Remember it? Put it in a museum? Fine. Deriving enjoyment from it is immoral, and distributing it widely without context amounts to renewing the Nazis' work. Any clarification necessary?
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