ALL Nazis are BAD

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 I am an old retired middle class white guy. I work part time delivering pizzas for play money.

 A young white guy came to work recently at the same place I work. I was familiarizing him with his duties. I encouraged him and advised him on how to most effectively perform his assigned tasks.

 He felt we had developed a more intimate relationship than I presumed to exist. Hence, he asked for my views on certain recent public events. His manner was such he apparently assumed I would share his views. He felt the removal of statues of leaders of the Confederacy was an act of disrespect towards heroic men and a promotion of revisionist history.

 Since he asked how I felt, I told him. I made it clear I was familiar with the history of the Civil War posited by both the North and the South. Without regard to either, it being a slavery issue or a state's rights issue there are some facts which are not subject to spin. 

I said personally, my view is a bunch of rich white guys were upset their labor force was threatened. Consequently, their revenue stream was at risk. Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, and Stonewall Jackson all chose to swear allegiance to a state other than the United States of America. They then chose to take up arms against their native land and engage in war. They lost.

 I advised I considered them to be traitors and guilty of treason. The statues he referred to were erected to celebrate ideals and individuals I find to be abhorrent to a patriotic American. 

I do not equate patriotism with nationalism. These were men who volunteered to participate in a lost cause for reasons which have been repudiated.

 I volunteered that I also would never support any individual or group which identifies with the ideology of Hitler nor WWII's National Socialist party.

 I told him ALL Nazis are bad. 

Apparently he no longer felt working with me would be appropriate.

Whaduyathink?