The point being made is a completely valid one.Radicals of right and left have far more in common than either side will admit.There certainly were the concentration camps (on the one hand)and the Gulag on the other.
Right...left...same basic result.
It is entirely invalid. In making the comparison you are engaging in a form of Holocaust denial. What is most offensive is not that you don’t have a clue, it’s that you don’t give a damn. And if you want to know why so few Jews tend to vote for a certain political party, I suggest you go look in a mirror.
If they’re nazis why do they call themselves “the right”? Nazis were socialists.
The Nazis are the left.
You (GSC) have apparently bought the Big Lie of the Western Left that the Nazis were “right wing.”
They were not. The National Socialists were, indeed, socialists.
I encourage you to read up on this topic, as it is still a fundamental aspect of our modern political milieu. The American Left routinely attempts to tie the Right to the Nazis, when this is entirely inaccurate from a political philosophy standpoint.
I offer some resources and a quote.
HITLER WAS A SOCIALIST
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1143131/posts
Hitler’s Handouts - Inside the Nazis’ welfare state
http://reason.com/archives/2007/08/15/hitlers-handouts
A quote from my FR profile page:
Although our modern socialists’ promise of greater freedom is genuine and sincere, in recent years observer after observer has been impressed by the unforeseen consequences of socialism, the extraordinary similarity in many respects of the conditions under “communism” and “fascism.” As the writer Peter Drucker expressed it in 1939, “the complete collapse of the belief in the attainability of freedom and equality through Marxism has forced Russia to travel the same road toward a totalitarian society of un-freedom and inequality which Germany has been following. Not that communism and fascism are essentially the same. Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion, and it has proved as much an illusion in Russia as in pre-Hitler Germany.”
No less significant is the intellectual outlook of the rank and file in the communist and fascist movements in Germany before 1933. The relative ease with which a young communist could be converted into a Nazi or vice versa was well known, best of all to the propagandists of the two parties. The communists and Nazis clashed more frequently with each other than with other parties simply because they competed for the same type of mind and reserved for each other the hatred of the heretic. Their practice showed how closely they are related. To both, the real enemy, the man with whom they had nothing in common, was the liberal of the old type. While to the Nazi the communist and to the communist the Nazi, and to both the socialist, are potential recruits made of the right timber, they both know that there can be no compromise between them and those who really believe in individual freedom.
— F.A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom
And a clarification on the above quote - a “liberal of the old type” is what we would call a political conservative. Hayek was of course writing before “liberal” was adopted by the socialists since they had to run from that term.
To summarize, you should immediately cease assigning the Nazis to the Right, as you did. It is entirely inaccurate, and is the result of a concerted disinformation / Big Lie campaign by the Left.