Godwin's Law for example.redbhoy said:Whats the big problem with comparing people to Nazi's?
It depends on the seriousness of the abhorrence. Calling a traffic warden a Nazi for example would obviously be a gross overreaction.If you want to compare someone to an extreme wrongdoer surely a Nazi is a good synonym to use seeing as most people reckon that the Nazis were abhorrent??
Or Germans, Poles, Gypsies, homosexuals, Communists etc.?Are we afraid of upsetting the Jewish people?
CCOVICH said:I'm not sure that the stigma attached to calling someone a 'Nazi' has anything/much to do with upsetting the Jewish race (or any other race/nation that suffered at the hands of the Nazis), I think it's more that the person who is called a Nazi is upset.
ronan_d_john said:Unless you're the Mayor of London and you describe a Jewish person as a Nazi.
ubiquitous said:If McDowell had compared Bruton to Comical Ali nobody would have blinked an eyelid - despite the fact that Saddam Hussein's regime have also gassed people in large numbers, albeit on a much smaller scale than the Nazis
Wasn't it the case that the (admittedly injudicious) comment was aimed at a journalist who happened to be of Jewish background - i.e. the fact that he was from such a background was not necessarily known to Livingstone or pertinent to the situation in hand?CCOVICH said:That certainly was ironic/moronic of Mr. Livingstone.
ClubMan said:Wasn't it the case that the (admittedly injudicious) comment was aimed at a journalist who happened to be of Jewish background - i.e. the fact that he was from such a background was not necessarily known to Livingstone or pertinent to the situation in hand?
ubiquitous said:Can anyone explain why there is no public protest/outcry/derision over the fact that a Dublin restaurant is named Mao, after one of the most murderous tyrants in history?
The supreme irony is that the same man was directly responsible for the deaths of millions of his own people due to famine.
Can anyone explain why there is no public protest/outcry/derision over the fact that a Dublin restaurant is named Mao, after one of the most murderous tyrants in history?
The supreme irony is that the same man was directly responsible for the deaths of millions of his own people due to famine.
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