Grammar Nazi

Originally Posted by TracyCoxx

Oh boy... and there goes the thread.

Let me be the first: Here's another similarity... Both Obama and Nazis put their pants on one leg at a time. Both Obama and the Nazis eat bread. Yes there are similarities, but there are certainly not enough similarities to call Obama a Nazi. And I'm drawing a line in the sand here because the connotation you're using is Nazi from WWII. That is what waters down the word Nazi, not terms like Grammar Nazi because everyone knows that a Grammar Nazi is not the same Nazi that will commit genocide.

Yet, Tracy, that’s just what I’m afraid of. By diluting the term continually, I think we’re bound to have such unbelievable excesses as this utter nonsense. I, like you, find what was just said absurd, but also ugly, offensive, ridiculous, grotesque, ludicrous and very, very scary. By not acknowledging to it’s fullest extent on an everyday and constant basis a reality such as showed by the pictures I posted, will necessarily result in a form of amnesia which doesn’t lie on the event themselves, but on their emotional charge and their historical and political significance, threatening in turn a political situation we never should take for granted, even today. Democracy was paid over and over by a terrible price. What you see as being just an expression has a value content that goes way beyond.

So please, Tracy, understand that I don’t want to be hostile to you or just to create some kind of bizarre, vain, bickering game: I really meant what I was saying. This will happen again and again with some potentially dangerous consequences if we don’t shake up and acknowledge completely what happened in recent history. There’s no doubt in my mind that you personnaly can make the difference, but obviously not everybody can, and this is the problem.

I’m almost kind of glad this just happened. I find it an excellent example of what I personally fear in such cases.

As to that gentleman, I won’t even try to talk to him. This is way past what I can address in a calm manner.