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In reply to the discussion: STOP with the Homeland crap. We are the UNITED STATES ! [View all]Ocelot II
(130,305 posts)6. "Die Heimat," German for The Homeland, is now the name of Germany's far-right neo-Nazi political party
previously known as the NPD (Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands). The connotation of the German word was originally a love for or attachment to your native land without overtones of nationalism, but during WWII the Nazis attached it to a nefarious, nationalistic belief system that called for the persecution, and eventually extermination, of all those who posed a threat to the purity of Germanys ethnic identity. This is why the use of the English word "homeland" always had a Third Reich vibe, now made even clearer since the German NPD renamed itself.
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yes, GWB ingrained this jingoism with "Dept of Homeland Security". Welcome to Bari Weiss's CBS.
thesquanderer
8 hrs ago
#79
"Die Heimat," German for The Homeland, is now the name of Germany's far-right neo-Nazi political party
Ocelot II
Yesterday
#6
I also destest the use of ' the Heartland' to describe the rural Midwest. Even more when those living there are called
Celerity
Yesterday
#20
There's nothing wrong with the term as they used it. "Fatherland" would be different
Callie1979
Yesterday
#21
German "fatherland" and Russia's "motherland"... both make me cringe...as "homeland" does.
QueerDuck
Yesterday
#23
Actually, the only time I don't mind the word "homeland" is in the closing lyric of Edelweiss.
QueerDuck
Yesterday
#24
"Homeland Security" has been a masturbatory term for American Nazis since day one.
Iggo
Yesterday
#46
the word "homeland" has much too much garbage attached to it to make it a descriptor of the United States.
patphil
Yesterday
#50
It irritates me that our representatives don't strategically weaponize language like Republicans.
live love laugh
13 hrs ago
#77