Posted on 02/25/2005 9:54:17 AM PST by MikeEdwards
It's bad enough that we spend so much of our time spewing hatred towards one another over politics, the one thing we all used to agree to hate together. The least we can do is get the terminology right for heavens sake.
I recently heard a young college moron [A person of mild mental retardation having a mental age of from 7 to 12 years and generally having communication and social skills enabling some degree of academic or vocational education. The term belongs to a classification system no longer in use and is now considered offensive, but accurate.] refer to our President as a Nazi, [Of, relating to, controlled by, or typical of the National Socialist German Workers' Party.]
I thought to myself, I wonder if this young fool [One who is deficient in judgment, sense, or understanding] even knows what a Nazi is? Then I heard him use the term fascist [A reactionary or dictatorial person, an authoritarian political movement like Fascism, founded in 1919 by Benito Mussolini] regarding our President and it was then that I realized, this punk [Of poor quality; worthless, a young person, especially a member of a rebellious counterculture group, an inexperienced young man.] had no idea what the hell he was talking about.
But it's not his fault exactly.
I have heard some of our nation's leaders say similar things. I'm sure he picked it up from them, not to mention a few old pot head [marijuana smoking, drug addict, useless individual] draft dodgers [cowards who ran from responsibility] turned college professor [puffed up windbag on the perpetual road to enlightenment]. . . . .
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I agree -- I think our difference lies in the fact I really believe it's important to use words like nazi, socialist, etc. correctly. I like to call a thing what it is and know what it isn't. I realize this is nit-picky, but I can't help it.
If they read this...
I don't know. There are some pretty big words there. That might be a challenging point.
If they read this...
I don't know. There are some pretty big words there. That might be a challenging point.
When I think of Nazis and Communists, it's like that Monty Python bit in "Life of Brian" about the People's Front of Judea and the Judean People's Front. Essentially they were the same thing, but reserved the most hatred for each other. "Splitters!"
What about:
All Nazis are socialists
Most socialists are Nazis
They were only the same in that they were both pretty bad political critters. You really want to be careful about using them interchangeably.
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