>>296369>growing acceptanceIn my country, we had almost no neo-nazi movements (aside from prison bangs and boomers who kept their 70's/80's nazi-punk bands/social groups going in garages, sheds and hole-in-the-wall bars) and certainly not a single one had any social or political power. The government criminalised certain things and started prosecuting more liberally to appeal to the growing youth-left and suddenly these neo-nazi groups swell in numbers; going from 10 balding fat guys drinking in a shed, to youth-focused movements with facebook support groups and sophisticated anonymous recruitment drives. They were a broken, outdated group of nobodies, laughed at by modern racists, already imprisoned and killed through their connections to the drug-trade, who were suddenly persecuted for political points in such a hamfisted way that they managed to successfully spin it into an attack on white people and free speech.
Neo-Nazism is a reactionary ideology that can only grow in a political climate which shifts the onus of progress from institutions to the public; demanding radical, often completely needless, social change rather than systematic reform. In a political climate of slow reform and incremental, commensurate social change, they're choked of reactionary fervor and wither on the vine. Attacking them directly doesn't work unless you're willing to suspend all your beliefs in liberal democracy and hurt a lot of innocent people in the process.
Shifting the definition of neo-nazi was an equally terrible consequence of making the espousing of radical/combative rhetoric a trivial and consequence-free exercise.
>>296372 exemplifies this, and uses such a vague defition that it's essentially meaningless; creating a an extremely harmful false dichotomy. They place themselves on one side, and all their enemies under the same banner, then attack them equally, regardless of their strength of the nature of their threat. Those attacked subconsciously align themselves with fellow enemies of their enemy, creating a genuine risk of repeating the formation of the same horrific political climate of 30's Europe and 2010's Middle East. I certainly don't want to be lumped in with genuine neo-nazis, radical islamists and authoritarian monarchists, when all I want is immigration reform and stricter foreign investment laws.
