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Originally Posted by danthepoetman
"Jump all over someone" ? Come on ! Tracy. What i'm doing is precisely what you suggest in your very post: making sure we neither forget nor diminish the significance of the event.
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I mean separately. If the horrors of WWII and the Nazis are discussed then people get it. They don't have to be reminded when using Nazi in idle chatter what the Nazis really did because that would also be discussed in society. There's room for both types of discussion.
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Originally Posted by danthepoetman
Explaining is not comdemning by any means. I never attributed curiousguy any malicious intentions.
I'm sorry we disagree on this; I like fun just as much as anybody, but i just cannot see this as a "joking" matter, and not either as a pleasantry, and i can't understand how anyone can.
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But you're not just explaining. You are criticizing the use of the word. You're free to do that, but let's be clear on what you're doing.
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Originally Posted by danthepoetman
I must admit that generally speaking, when we can't laugh about something, it might mean we're falling into some kind of extremism. But there's a certain number of topics i find not to be laughing matters. This is definitly one of them.
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I don't find the Nazis of WWII funny at all either. Quite the opposite. But in the last 60-70 years the word has taken on other connotations.
These other connotations can be used in humorous situations. Try not to confuse the two.