What if i stayed, acting like i worked but not really doing anything? Blocking a Nazis spot, taking my salary out of their budget. Maybe even sabotaging. Lets all do that, collectively. Covering eachother by telling how good a job we are doing and so on...
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Some people on this site are so divorced from reality it's scary. Nuance? Never heard of her.
And I'm sure that anyone potentially replying to my comment will spew some bs like "if you work for a 'nazi' in any way, you're a nazi" and to those people I say that it is clear you have lived your entire life without having had to deal with real life dilemmas and compromises. Must be nice to feel entitled to dictate who gets to provide for their family and who have to quit or they are deemed a nazi by you. What a humble, sane and intelligent mindset to have.
Demanding people in an unstable country to quit their job is the extremist leftie version of "just stop being poor".
Some people don't have the luxury to quit, especially if they have a home and a family to feed and bills to pay, which is the case for most people.
I think that what you're realizing is that lots of the Nazis in Germany were likely we'll meaning people stuck in a bad situation who kept coming to work because they needed to provide for their families and pay bills and maintain their homes.
And do you know how history refers to those people?
Some of them were even heros, like Shindler, who people forget was an SS officer.
Indeed, this reads like not enough interaction with the real world, or possibly just anarchist thesis? Nina sounds like an extremist anarchist, so I guess it's par for the course.
A good friend of mine is quitting their (once) dream fed job, counting down the remainder until their last day. They work for the government to enforce engineering safety standards, but can no longer stomach the gutting of safety regulations that their department manages. Upon raising ethical concerns, they got dragged into a room with lawyers who relayed a parable about ethics. The lesson was: Be "a good soldier" and ignore safety regulations if you're told to do so.
I go to work everyday and feel like a mail clerk in the Death Star
- My friend to me
Damn, mail clerk at the Death Star sounds like an awesome job, and low-pressure compared to other jobs at the Death Star. Low chance of being strangled by Vader, and you get to watch a planet blow up if you're into that, which, if you worked at the Death Star, you probably would be.
My philosophy allows for distinction between death squads and meter maids.
The guy who scrubbed Hitler's toilet was not culpable in the same manner as the asshole who sat on it.
The guy who scrubbed Hitler's toilets isn't remembered at all, except by the collective noun "Nazi".
They weren't "The Nazis and the guy who scrubbed Hitler's toilets", just "Nazis". You're philosophy may allow for any distinction it likes, the lessons of history: just "Nazi". For reference I linked the Wikipedia page to the Nazi party please observe the title isn't "The Nazi Party and Hitler's toilet guy" just "The nazi Party"
And that doesn't invite any reconsideration on your part. Eighty million of the most evil motherfuckers imaginable, even if all they did is scrub toilets. Zero distinction.
This is a bad take, capitalist and the Nazis running the government don't give two shits if a couple people quit to clear their conscience. If your in a productive part of the government, healthcare, sanitation, infrastructure etc. that isn't directly contributing to the camps then don't quit, organize. Start agitating to create a union, if there already is one, agitate within it, maybe you'll get fired anyway but if you've integrated yourself into the workplace more by fighting for a union then your fellow workers will have more sympathy, be more angry at the boss who is trying to suppress speech and be more likely to follow you and withhold their labor then if you just yelled "Fuck ICE" as you quit.
Change won't come from individual uncoordinated silent acts of conscience, it comes through building solidarity with your fellow workers and fighting together.
This is all if you work in a part of the government that actually helps people, if you are working in ICE, defense contractors, etc. then yeah quit your job.
By your definition Schindler was a nazi, but by working for them he was able to save many lives… so I’m happy with anyone who continues to work with the goal of slowing down their progress.