Nazism was thought to be mostly eradicated after the end of World War II. However, Nazism didn’t actually disappear. Even with political correctness, with society criticising people with racist viewpoints and negative attitudes towards people with different beliefs, the foundations of Nazism still thrives in the form of Neo-Nazism in the United States today.
This became blatantly obvious in August of 2017 when Neo-Nazis marched through the campus of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, carrying torches and referencing anti-Jewish beliefs through chanting. When faced with protesters objecting to their marching and message, one of the neo-Nazis intentionally ran his car into the crowd of protesters, killing one person and wounding many others.
Despite protests to this, as well as other hateful demonstrations in the past, neo-Nazism is still present in America. An article put out by the Southern Poverty Law Center cites the first amendment as a reason for the continuation of neo-Nazism. The first amendment protects their right to say or publish what they wish, no matter how hateful it may be. This
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Their ideas spread and changed over the ages and became other groups such as Neo-Nazism. One comparison between Nazism and neo-Nazism is how long both practises were, and are still, allowed to continue. With Adolf Hitler being a leader for the Nazis to organize and to spread their beliefs made it very difficult to put an end to Nazism. Due to this difficulty, Nazism was an inescapable force for quite a while after it was first introduced. While present neo-Nazism has no current leader in the same way original Nazism did, it is still proving difficult to remove. As mentioned before, the first amendment protects Americans right to freedom of speech. This right allows Nazis in America to freely spread their ideology and in some cases this leads to events like the one in