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[seriousfic]

So I saw a post the other day which said people should stop using the phrase Grammar Nazi because it "dismisses the impact Nazis have on the world." Which, two things...

1. I'm pretty sure the only impact Nazis are having on the world at the moment is trying to kill Captain America.

2. Didn't this whole "Nazi as an euphemism for someone who's really strict" thing kick off with the Soup Nazi from Seinfeld? And stop me if I'm wrong, but I think there might have been one or two Jewish people involved with that show.

Comments

[telepresence.livejournal.com]

To be fair, there are still neo-Nazi and White supremacist organizations who are fond of Nazi symbolism and ideology in the world hurting people.

[sinanju.livejournal.com]

I heard the term "authenticity nazis" in the SCA long before Seinfeld.

[(Anonymous)]

Don't say the name of Them-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named!

Nazis are the new Voldemort?

But kidding aside, shouldn't it be MANDATORY to make fun of Nazis? To diminish the impact they had? To dismiss the mark they left on the world?

I refuse to live in a world where I'm force to "worship" the "Nazi legacy".

[(Anonymous)]

To diminish the impact they had? To dismiss the mark they left on the world?

I refuse to live in a world where I'm force to "worship" the "Nazi legacy".

I don't know. I'd rather the Holocaust be seen as horrible as it is. I don't want it to be desentisized. I want it to be taken seriously so that no government should ever fall into that direction ever again.

[iteari.livejournal.com]

It's not "grammer nazi" that gets up my craw, tbh. Soup Nazi, Grammar Nazi...I could care less.

I get more annoyed when people, politicians especially, try to come off as martyrs by likening whatever opposing group there is to the Nazis. No, tax cuts are not the same thing as trying to wipe out entire minorities.