When you feel compelled to compare someone or something to the Nazis, please remember that Nazis were not just mean, cruel, bigoted, discriminatory, ignorant or slanderous to groups they did not like. They killed them in death camps.
If you spend your time fighting people that look like Nazis to you, and you are ineffective (i.e. you threaten, hurt and aggravate them instead of actually killing them), then these people will start organizing and fight back. At the same time, you may overlook the actual Nazis.
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Perhaps you dislike nationalists, and devout conservative Christians, and libertarians, and narcissist Billionaires, but do you really want all of these different camps to fight you, just because you cannot distinguish them from Nazis?
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What I hope is that extreme groups can be ‘nipped in the bud’ through means like ranked voting that can help prevent groups that can attain a plurality but not a majority from coming to power. I’d like to support mechanisms that favor the center.
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We can always make both type I and type II errors :-) but I wouldn’t want to let that fear prevent me from trying to fight against something I thought was dangerous.
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Eventually what counts is not the intention but the outcome. So when your goal is to reduce incidence of Nazism or general Fascism, you need to start with a very clear idea of what it is you want to reduce, which strategies will work, and how you would test that and error correct
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