The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #107773 Message #2238113
Posted By: C. Ham
16-Jan-08 - 08:27 PM
Thread Name: BS: Using the other N-word
Subject: RE: BS: Using the other N-word
People don't make references to the Rwandan genocide in the same way, although that is much more recent, because no organized groups of Rwandan survivors exist to publicise and remind people of what happened to them.
I wouldn't object to a group that commits genocide being referred to as Nazi, Nazi-like, etc.
But I was called a "health Nazi" because I helped lobby for a ban on smoking in indoor public places in Toronto. I was at a folk festival once where the artistic director was called a "folk Nazi" because she wouldn't book bands with electric instruments.
It's such casual use of a term taken from an evil, genocidal regime to describe people who are doing good that makes me want to puke in disgust.
Someone who corrects someone else's spelling is not a "Nazi," and there's nothing clever about calling someone that.