[bayourod]

I think that there is a misunderstanding as to what a reference to David Duke means. Travis thinks you're calling someone a Nazi racist because he associates David Duke with the Nazis.

On the other hand, those of us who remember David Duke's Louisiana campaign think of him as a KKK leader who ran a campaign on an anti-immigrant theme, much like Pat Buchanan's campaign. Although at the time David Duke's target was Vietnamese immigrants who were having trouble with American shrimpers on the Gulf Coast. He and Louis Beam made several trips to Houston trying to raise money from the anti-immigrant crowd.

Maybe David Duke is a Nazi, I don't know, the only things I have heard him say are some of the same accusations about Hispanic immigrants on FR, such as "they are ruining our neighborhoods", "destroying our culture", lowering our educational standards","threatening our sovereignty", etc...

Those statements don't make him a Nazi though. Perhaps you should specify which David Duke you are referencing, the Nazi one or the anti-immigrant one.

[Trinity_Tx]

Unless we're going to be pedantic, does it really make a difference?

I don't think anyone missed the point or would be any less justifiably outraged at being called a Klansman.

[Bikers4Bush]

Whether nazi or kkk reference, neither is appropriate for debate.

Unless of course you're conceeding that you have no decent arguement in which case by all means use vieled insults to call people nazi's or kkk members.