‘Confederists,’ Nazis two sides of the same coin

THE CURRENT events in Charlottesville have illustrated something which should have always been obvious to anyone who looks at it closely. This is the fascinating parallel between the outlook of the old “Confederacy” and Nazi Germany. Both are founded on the belief of the superiority of the white race over that of other races, such as black, Jewish, etc.

In the case of the Nazis, they have a special name, the “Aryan” race, which really means just white people. They were supposed to be superior in everything — how shocked they must have been by Jesse Owens! They also have a belief in slavery, on which the economy of the Confederate south was founded, and on which, via slave labor in factories, much of the Nazi German economy depended. It is of interest that both of these “societies” lost their war.

Now that the white supremacists and Nazis have adopted the “Confederists” as collaborators, the similarity becomes more obvious. They are pretty much indistinguishable. It was shocking to see the Confederate flag and the Nazi flag flying together. It is impossible to forget that disgraceful period of our history, the Confederacy, but there is no reason to commemorate it. We are in complete sympathy with those who seek to destroy all of the Confederate statues and other monuments. It is clear that they all celebrate a despicable institution: slavery.

And it is clear, as demonstrated by the two flags, that they are in total agreement, as though joined at the hip. It is true that the Nazis, with modern power, reached much further with the Holocaust and its gas chambers, but it differs only in degree with the lynchings by the KKK that were so common during Reconstruction.

Both societies depended upon intimidation and brutality. How can anyone fail to see the similarity in these despicable two “philosophies?” Evidently the white supremacists and neo-Nazis recognize it. JOE AND LINDA MULLINS Albuquerque