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But not all Nazi analogies are bad. In fact, many Nazi analogies are a good part of public discourse. Nazism is the single most awful ideology ever vomited out of the bowels of our pestilential human history. With its racism, its genocidal mania, and its apocalyptically relentless violence, Nazism remains a unique distillation of human evil, the devils masterpiece. It makes perfect sense that the most totemic example of evil in human history would get a lot more mentions than the various runners-up. When we try to give examples of goodness, we evoke Mother Teresa and Gandhi, not sort-of-nice chaps. Whats more, the totemic nature and frequent invoking of Nazism ensures that its firm status as the greatest evil ever is reinforced. Given the alarming rise of anti-Semitism in many parts of the world, the fact that there can be little doubt about polite societys revulsion toward Nazism is reassuring. And heres another reason Nazi analogies arent always bad: Some things actually are like Nazism.
Posted on: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 14:26:20 +0000

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