I don’t at all agree with your defense or lack of acknowledgement that his behavior is mirrors that of actual 1930s/40s Nazis.
I will say the distinction you made is accurate, it would be more accurate if we called him a fascist. Well at least partially, because you don’t have to do a Nazi salute to be a racist, but you do if you’re a Nazi.
But you noticed how you used grammar Nazi down there? You just established that people have taken the term that used to apply only to the actual 130s/40s Nazis, but has since taken on new meaning.
The same argument can be made about hook and loop fasteners, so far Velcro was the most famous for it. It doesn’t mean that I’m wrong when I call off brand hook and loop fasteners ‘velcro’. That’s just what everyone knows it as, which gives the words their meaning, not the other way around.
Enough of the world population has used the term Nazi in the exact context that you seem to despise, and that’s enough for me and likely us.
I don’t at all agree with your defense or lack of acknowledgement that his behavior is mirrors that of actual 1930s/40s Nazis.
I will say the distinction you made is accurate, it would be more accurate if we called him a fascist. Well at least partially, because you don’t have to do a Nazi salute to be a racist, but you do if you’re a Nazi.
But you noticed how you used grammar Nazi down there? You just established that people have taken the term that used to apply only to the actual 130s/40s Nazis, but has since taken on new meaning.
The same argument can be made about hook and loop fasteners, so far Velcro was the most famous for it. It doesn’t mean that I’m wrong when I call off brand hook and loop fasteners ‘velcro’. That’s just what everyone knows it as, which gives the words their meaning, not the other way around.
Enough of the world population has used the term Nazi in the exact context that you seem to despise, and that’s enough for me and likely us.