On Thu, 17 Oct 2013 08:50:26 +0200, Steve Hayes wrote: > On 17 Oct 2013 05:48:10 GMT, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> > wrote: > >>On Thu, 17 Oct 2013 00:22:47 -0400, random832 wrote: >> >>> While this flippant usage of "Nazi" (based on, as I understand it, >>> Seinfeld's "soup nazi") may be offensive, it has nothing to do with >>> sexism. If the scope of this discussion is to be offensive module >>> names generally, then the subject line should have mentioned that. >> >>Almost one entire branch of my family (maternal grandfather's side) were >>murdered in the Nazi death camps during the Holocaust, but what I find >>offensive is the idea that all figurative or non-historical mention of >>the Nazis ought to be verboten. (I know that's not what *you* wrote, but >>others, the more earnest left-wing politically-correct types in >>particular, have said such things.) I'm particularly disturbed by the >>idea that I personally ought to be offended by terms such as "soup nazi" >>or "grammar nazi", and if I'm not, there's something wrong with me. > > I thought left-wing types were particularly prone to using such terms, > and tend to freely call anyone even slightly to the right of them > "fascist".
No more so than right-wingers call anyone even slightly left "socialist" or "communist". It it interesting to see how *rarely* the people accused of being "socialists" by right-wingers actually believe in socialist memes, while how *commonly* people accused of being "fascists" by the left actually believe and follow fascist memes. -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
