Submitted by susinpgh t3_10zsthg in Pennsylvania
whomp1970 t1_j8dvm04 wrote
Reply to comment by NotTRYINGtobeLame in Voting Rights Victory in Pennsylvania by susinpgh
Man, I get it. Really, I get what you're trying to say.
But just like "Kleenex" now means tissues (rather than just one brand of tissues) and "Google it" means "use a search engine" (even if you use Bing) ...
I think "Nazi" has lost its specificity. It now literally means "someone exercising authority with evil intentions", or something else generic like that.
Railing against that change in word usage will do you no good.
It's like, technically, you're correct, but nobody cares and everyone understands what the intent was.
NotTRYINGtobeLame t1_j8e03le wrote
But I'm not just technically correct. All this anger and vitriol spewed here at me hasn't proved that there is any noteworthy proportion of the GOP who wants these extremes. Hence why they're called extremists. If y'all are going to blanket label the other party anything without truly paying attention, while shoving so much hate into their arguments where it just isn't, then I can't help you folks. Clearly, the reactionary and immature "everyone is Nazis" is going to win out with the Reddit crowd, and no matter how many times I ask for proof of the allegations, none is provided, only "you should know," and, "You're just blind/ignorant," etc. If the Right wing failed to provide evidence as much as the Left in this post, they'd be crucified by the Left. Someone tried to show me 1 article about DuPont being evil and man was it a long read, but all it showed is that Dupont is a big, rich scummy lobbying company. When I tried to analyze the article, no one wants to play ball because they can't have their positions challenged when the almighty Reddit up-vote count is egging them on.
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