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Robert — (archived)

Yeah, I was being a little tongue-in-cheek too, I've had to endure too many lectures explaining why the poor and the generally lesser deserve what they get.

I just wanted to remind you of how sensitive people are to the name "Nazi". It's a Heap Big Power Word, and every time I don't use it carefuly I seem to get into trouble. You saw the heroic lengths SDAI-Tech1 went to to try and find a way to take offense. That's the real weakness of it, that people latch on to the word and shriek so loudly that whatever you were trying to say gets drowned out. Many people react that way deliberately as a weapon to suppress legitimate opinion, and that's when I tend to push back.

It'd be really sad if the cautionary lessons of Nazi Germany are lost because people are bullied out of talking about them. Not to mention cosmically ironic.

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