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Originally Posted by danthepoetman
Tracy, we're talking about an event that took close to 70 million lives. You don't think some people might be deeply offended by such a frivolous use of the word ? Even "fascists" would be better in such instance, however awful it would still be an hyperbola. Of course we understand it's an exageration... of course the human mind can grasp it. That's precisely the point: it's the dimensions of the event that makes the comparison shoking to an extreme.
It's as if we all forgot how abominable an event WW2 was. The word "nazis" evoke such a horrific reality we cannot possibly use it to define a mild fixation on grammar. That's smc's point, i think. And i share it. We have to take part and responsability to history even in the present, don't you think ? I'm affraid there's no way to be innocent, here.  |
Do you also complain when someone says they're on a "crusade" to go do something?