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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"

Whatever the right word for it is it should be similar to Nuclear Fusion. It was tried once. It created great power and energy in times of desperation. But it was a runaway process that exploded.

China is currently the closest to tapping into this immense energy. There is *huge* power being generated and they think it's under control. Similar attempts to channel this energy in the U.S. are like north korea playing with water rockets.

That's to be expected from a country that feels like it "defeated" the nazis. A country of waterbenders that defeated the tyrannical fire nation is not going to be particularly good at mastering new cutting edge firebending techniques.