Yeah, canon Uber and Leet are basically like... stereotypical "Gamer Bros", and not of the fun kind. So you've got stuff like the GTA thing, and iirc Wildbow said canonically Leet has shirts that say things like "Endbringer victims complain too much", so the two of them are just generally kind of assholes. It's just that they rate a lot lower on the scale when their competition includes "Sex-trafficking Dragon Man", "Drugs: The Movie", "The Amazing Pedo-Snake", and of course "Literally Fucking Nazis".
"Literally Fucking Nazis"
Ok, here's my pet peeve. It's mostly concerned with Worm, but I see it from time to time elsewhere.
American NeoNazi = Nazi
So, basically, there's this idea going around, and I will admit it is a
perfectly understandable idea, that American NeoNazis are the same politically and ideologically as Nazis. Worm in particular is a major offender here.
NeoNazis
have nothing to do with Nazis, not politically, not ideologically,
nothing. Hell, NeoNazis only hate on Jews because it is
fashionable, not for any of the reasons that Nazis hated on them which, while utterly reprehensible, where nonetheless
rational and had a basis in real experiences.
The Nazis also had
no issue with people of other races (other than the Jews) and counted Africans, Asians and Middle Eastern peoples amongst their number. NeoNazis hate everyone who isn't white for reasons that are mostly imagined.
In short, WW2 Nazis would
despise NeoNazis.
Shit, even back in WW2, the USA was more racist than
literal Nazis. But I digress.
The point I'm making, and to go back to Worm fanfics for a moment, is the idea that the E88 would have
anything to do with Geschellshaft, is a hilariously incorrect view of NeoNazi ideology. The two would more likely be at each other's throats.
Also, the Norse love is distinctly
German NeoNazi, American NeoNazis tend to be more Christian in their theological appropriation. Fuck,
everything about the way the E88 is shown in Worm bothers me.
I mean, the characters are ...mostly right: Kaiser doesn't give a shit about any of it and is just using it to make money, Hookwolf just wants to hurt people, Rune is a child brought up in it all with zero prospect to get out and is still a bit too young to being thinking for herself, etc, etc. These are real people who would be caught up in the NeoNazi system (Wildbow was
really good at writing people, not so good at writing culture and the things surrounding people). Basically, if you think of NeoNazis as less of an ideology or political thing and more as a cult, you wont be far off on how they operate and the kind of people they attract.
(Cricket bothers me, though. Her entire thing, from weapon choice to costume, even her
name, screams Asian and I seriously think Wildbow got confused at some point and put her in with the wrong gang by mistake and just ran with it.)
When writing fanfics, people tend to forget that NeoNazis are humans too, and most of them don't really subscribe. But getting out is hell, as, like a cult, they isolate you from friends and family,
become your friends and family, and ultimately prevent any real way to get support to get out of the group.
Even fanfics that start with the MC deciding to focus first on community support always default to 'shoot the Nazi'. People are more willing give
fucking Lung, the literal sex slaving mass murderer, more of a sympathetic character than
any E88 cape or minion.
Just because he didn't call his gang 'NeoNazi but Asian'. ...which is literally how he runs his gang, but
whatever.
Because we all know Nazis are evil, soulless space aliens and thus it is 100% ok to kill them without a second thought. Not like they have families, or jobs, or children, or might only be there because they were press-ganged and their family's lives might be under threat if they don't behave or anything like that.
Nope. Nazi. Evil. Kill it.
Sorry, this turned into a meandering rant. But god does it bother me how
willing people are to dehumanise others.
