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ap: We cannot obfuscate Nazism or the rise of a dangerous hate-filled, far-right ideology in America

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Hundreds of white nationalists, neo-Nazis and members of the “alt-right” march down East Market Street toward Emancipation Park during the “Unite the Right” rally Aug. 12, 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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This year Colorado State Board of Education member Steve Durham exerted his influence to have the state social studies standards revised to remove the word Nazi from the curriculum and replace it with the party’s official name, the National Socialist German Workers Party. Durham’s are part of an effort, among some in the far-right, to promote the discredited belief that Hitler’s Nazi Party was a leftist socialist movement and not a far-right wing movement.  Jewish groups and historians objected to the proposed revisions because they failed to accurately portray the fascism and ethno-nationalism of the Nazi Party. Ultimately, Durham agreed to refer to the Nazi Party as the Nazi Socialist German Workers Party.
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