You’re right, but people here have so thoroughly whitewashed their history that they don’t acknowledge all of those awful things (or they at least downplay them).
There was a day and age when “Nazi” was understood by everyone to be a bad thing. Comparing someone to a Nazi was an obvious criticism, and one that people couldn’t portray in a positive light.
Again, you’re correct, but there’s a reason we don’t compare things to our own history. Too many people don’t realize who the monsters were in those stories.
I didn’t like the whole Godwin thought terminating cliche (that ended up turning Nazi comparisons into thought terminating cliches) back when I first saw it but in hindsight it’s particularly stupid and arrogant, like that thing that did significant damage to the world was just a once-off fluke and anyone who compares anything else to it just loses for assuming something like that could ever happen again.
Though part of me is already sure that it was pushed by people who already wanted a new Nazi wave. But I do wonder why it was that their bandwagon was jumped on rather than a bandwagon of telling them to stfu and that “any comparison to nazis is invalid” was never logical in the first place.
You’re right, but people here have so thoroughly whitewashed their history that they don’t acknowledge all of those awful things (or they at least downplay them).
There was a day and age when “Nazi” was understood by everyone to be a bad thing. Comparing someone to a Nazi was an obvious criticism, and one that people couldn’t portray in a positive light.
Again, you’re correct, but there’s a reason we don’t compare things to our own history. Too many people don’t realize who the monsters were in those stories.
I didn’t like the whole Godwin thought terminating cliche (that ended up turning Nazi comparisons into thought terminating cliches) back when I first saw it but in hindsight it’s particularly stupid and arrogant, like that thing that did significant damage to the world was just a once-off fluke and anyone who compares anything else to it just loses for assuming something like that could ever happen again.
Though part of me is already sure that it was pushed by people who already wanted a new Nazi wave. But I do wonder why it was that their bandwagon was jumped on rather than a bandwagon of telling them to stfu and that “any comparison to nazis is invalid” was never logical in the first place.