Quote from: Beth Andrea on May 12, 2011, 09:03:29 PM
First off, one of the problems we have in the US is calling every right-wing group/religion/political org "nazi."
Most terminologies are over used. That is a fact of life. If we're calling everyone a homosexual, a girl, mentally ill, a jew.
The terms, nazi and fascist are appropriate within context. But in the context of this article, they are probably not. Firstly, the way it is written suggests it is a title, rather than a description. Nazi, within a political context is an adgective. Secondly, the writer is clearly use the term as a verbal attack, rather than a reasoned use to describe. Thirdly, within the context, the behaviour is hardly nazi. However extreme US politics may have gone, it doesn't seem to have reached that point. The clowns in the US and every other society, who do their best to attract attention to themselves by weating swasitcas, calling themselves Nazis and claiming they admire Hitler, are no more a threat to society than any other bunch of social outcasts. (I believe, in the US, the preferred term is sociopath).