I'm often surprised and disappointed by people who claim to fight for inclusion and diversity, but that will hyperbolize reasonable differences of opinion to label someone they disagree with as "nazi".
Under this fallacious and violent reasoning (if it's even deserving of "reasoning"), someone n-levels removed from someone else who'd been previously incorrectly labeled a "nazi" gets emotionally blackmailed into ostracizing that victim, because if one doesn't join the verbal lynching, one joins the victim and also gets the label.
The problem isn't just that it trivializes the term.
It turns disagreements, misunderstandings, and false accusations into excuses to hate more and more innocent people.
It dehumanizes the initial targets, already victims of undeserved hate, and everyone who dares stand in the way of the hate campaign.
Does that pattern of behavior sound familiar?
Haven't we seen enough contagious dehumanization already?
First they came for the others,
but I didn't speak up
because I wasn't one of the others,
and if I did, I'd be othered myself.
All of a sudden, that person who was n-levels removed from an imaginary "nazi" becomes directly connected to an attacker who, presumably without realizing, behaves very much like an actual dehuma"nazi".
Hatred is contagious, but so is courage to fight for justice.
Pick one, and choose wisely.
So blong,