No more Nazis, please
NS September 17th, 2008
This is a Public Service Announcement.
Calling anyone with a strict set of guidelines and rules, or someone who is very passionate about a cause a ‘Nazi’ is a) lazy b) insulting to those who really did suffer under the Nazi regime and c) contextually incorrect. It’s not clever, it’s not cool and is perpetuating the use of a cliched phrase that needs to be laid to rest. If you can’t think of anything else to call someone besides a Nazi, even if it’s “spelling Nazi” or something equally ‘tame’, I suggest you invest in a thesaurus or refrain from speaking until your brain catches up with your mouth.
*Note: My use of ‘femiNazi’ (a common insult hurled at feminists) in one of the categories of this blog is meant to highlight the stupidity and childishness of the term, not promote it
