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The common majority interpretation of "Nazis were bad people, we won, all is good now." is like saying "Stop science, nuclear bombs are bad, we have enough technology now."

It ignores the point that we've discovered something new and terrifyingly powerful about everyday reality and that requires and increase in social responsibility due to letting this cat out of the bag.

E.g. if a country allows anyone to have a gun, then social responsibility has to be ingrained into every person. Social and political apathy isn't an option just like not knowing that injecting bleach and disinfectant into your body doesn't cure disease isn't an option.

Pointing out that certain behavior is nazi-ish is the same as asking someone to be careful with making decisions or code changes that affects massive amounts of people. There's a responsibility to not allow it spread and bloom uncontrollably.

It's the understanding that certain ideas are like viruses. They get into your mind and "infect" you unwillingly. It's not about force of will or lack of intelligence, or not being a good person. It's just an uncontrollable virus similar to how wildfires are uncontrollable.

Similar to wildfires, "fire" isn't bad. Lack of small fires actually lead to accumulation of fuel that leads to terrible fires. Nazism is like flesh eating bacteria. It's just regular bacteria that becomes terrible and dangerous under certain conditions.

So the word "nazism" can describe both a candle as well as a wildfire. This makes communication difficult because the only allowed usage is in reference to the wildfire form. Everything else is considered hyperbole.

Part of is it b/c there's history and politics. Nazis were an actual group of people. The Holocaust was an actual specific historical event. You could use the word fascism but for all intents and purposes they mean the same thing. They're parsed as "bad bad bad wildfire bad"