I read the article in question. If anything, NYT is - the main purpose, I believe, in writing this - subtly tossing the notion out there that any white person can be a nazi, or can easily turn into one, no matter how innocent they may seeeeeeeemmmmmmmmmmm. Fucking spoopy man.
However, these twitdicks are too busy thinking nazi = bad, therefor anything about nazis = bad; even though the undertones of the piece suggests that they are not "humanizing" nazis, but, rather, trying to make it nazi = average joe. You'd think all these liberal arts majors would "think outside the box" like they always brag about and notice it. Makes it funnier to me.
The article itself is nothing special. But it's making twitter flip the tits out, so I'm down for the cause.