Nazi bar

Popularized by a July 2020 tweet by Michael B. Tager (@IamRageSparkle) explaining how he had once witnessed a bartender expell a non-disruptive customer whose "vest … was all nazi shit" because

"you have to nip it in the bud immediately. These guys come in and it's always a nice, polite one. And you serve them because you don't want to cause a scene. And then they become a regular and after awhile they bring a friend. And that dude is cool too. And then THEY bring friends and the friends bring friends and they stop being cool and then you realize, oh shit, this is a Nazi bar now.["]^[1][2]

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Nazi bar (plural Nazi bars)

1. (Internet slang) A space in which bigots or extremists have come to dominate due to a lack of moderation or by moderators wishing to remain neutral or avoid conflict.
   • 2020 August 10, Sojaro (@sojaro), Twitter‎^[1]:

     Social media platforms are virtual monopolies only by the virtue that alternatives immediately establish themselves as either "hug boxes" or "nazi bars".

   • 2021 September 9, Val Syverson (@vjpsyverson), Twitter‎^[2]:

     I’d venture to say this is especially important reading for those of us who formed our opinions on this topic before the New Atheist movement became a Nazi bar.

   • 2022 January 12, Julian Kay (@AlienRopeBurn), Twitter‎^[3]:

     Tabletop Simulator's forums and community have essentially melted under the blazing bigot influx at this point. It's a Nazi bar now.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Nazi bar.
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Nazi,‎ bar.

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