The use of the word "Nazi"

[OH Juli 15]

I can't stand to see the use of the word Nazi as pertaining to a fill-Nazi, a femme-Nazi, gym-Nazi, or soup-Nazi.

It just makes me think people have no real clue just how horrible the Nazis actually were. To toss it around so easily makes people even less sensitive to the vast inhumanity of WWII.

When someone says they are a Nazi I want to ask them if they systematically burn, mutilate, and torture the people with whom they disagree?

Just had to vent.

[Wheetsin 714]

I cringe every time I see it.

[Boo Boo Kitty 3]

I agree 1000% with you Julie.

As a great-granddaughter of a Polish Jew who lived through concentration camp I literally want to hurl when it is used around me. It is not in jest or in fun, or anything. It is plain ignorance.

I had someone call me a "Nazi" once in regards to my work. I called her out in front of a group of people, gave her a history lesson, and then asked her again if she felt, I was still a Nazi. She apologized, and I then cried in private.

It is just as bad to me as other racial slurs and has no place in civil society. Points out to me we are just not so civil!

[DerickM 1]

The word has gone from meaning "Homicidal-Socialist-German-Workers-Party" to meaning "Generic-Rule-Enforcement/Enforcers"

It is also the Fashion to say "Nazi' rather than "Fascist" I wonder if it's time to start worrying that children born today will grow up with the impression that Nazis were simply arbitrary-rule-enforcing-buffoons. Is that an unreasonable concern?

on the other hand, language does what it does, if you try to discourage analogies in order to 'preserve their power', you end up with taboos that are asking to be broken.

[anonemouse 1]

I cringe every time I see it.

Ditto. It does make me want to ask the people using it what exactly they're thinking.

[IneedMajorHelp 1]

there was a documentary - can't remember if it was pre or post 9/11 - about rudy - some NY'ers calling him a nazi and making pictures of him as Hitler - anyone else see this?

[DerickM 1]

they do the same thing with bush...hypocrites

[IneedMajorHelp 1]

<p>yes they do - wow - you've lost alot in a year - congrats- we started at about the same BMI - does it get any easier?</p>

[DerickM 1]

I am unfortunately trudging along a plateau right now, but this is the first major one I've hit so far.

[green 6]

I agree 1000% with you Julie.

As a great-granddaughter of a Polish Jew who lived through concentration camp I literally want to hurl when it is used around me. It is not in jest or in fun, or anything. It is plain ignorance.

I had someone call me a "Nazi" once in regards to my work. I called her out in front of a group of people, gave her a history lesson, and then asked her again if she felt, I was still a Nazi. She apologized, and I then cried in private.

It is just as bad to me as other racial slurs and has no place in civil society. Points out to me we are just not so civil!

My father's side of the family were Polish Jews. Very few of them survived the Holocaust and those who did were left with severe emotional damage. My mother, a Brit, had the *fun* of living through a long and terrifying war, one which was often conducted through night time air strikes by the way, watching her friends die and her homeland be reduced to rubble. She also had the *fun* of living on rations and freezing throughout the winter months. This is why I personally tend to find a cute or *fun* use of the word Nazi unpleasant.

On the other hand, it sure as hell does show disrespect for that murderous tribe of thugs and maybe that's a good thing. Maybe the best thing we can do to ensure that they will never rise again is to laugh at 'em. Who knows???

I do think that anyone who is going to use the term should know the history behind the word, and not simply toss it around like it is meaningless.

[lawanda jessica 0]

Any racist word is nasty!

[Boo Boo Kitty 3]

My father's side of the family were Polish Jews. Very few of them survived the Holocaust and those who did were left with severe emotional damage. My mother, a Brit, had the *fun* of living through a long and terrifying war, one which was often conducted through night time air strikes by the way, watching her friends die and her homeland be reduced to rubble. She also had the *fun* of living on rations and freezing throughout the winter months. This is why I personally tend to find a cute or *fun* use of the word Nazi unpleasant.

On the other hand, it sure as hell does show disrespect for that murderous tribe of thugs and maybe that's a good thing. Maybe the best thing we can do to ensure that they will never rise again is to laugh at 'em. Who knows???

I do think that anyone who is going to use the term should know the history behind the word, and not simply toss it around like it is meaningless.

Green absolutely! My gg was a mean horrible person, and I never understood why when I was little now I do!

[green 6]

Green absolutely! My gg was a mean horrible person, and I never understood why when I was little now I do!

I hear you, grrl! My own father was hard to live with. This is why I still see a therapist. :phanvan