From The Smirking Chimp: http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/david-michael-green/32229/yes-of-course-theyre-brownshirts-what-the-hell-did-you-expect
October 31, 2010 – 11:08am
You know, I hate like hell using the tired old Nazi analogy.
For one thing, everybody does it, and everybody does it all the time. It hasn’t exactly earned an A for originality in about a half century now.
For another thing, not only does everybody do it, but now complete idiots who couldn’t pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were written on the heel are doing it too, and of course they’re too dumb to even use the term properly. You can’t foam at the mouth about what a freaking socialist Barack Obama is and then call him a Nazi at the same time. Unless, of course, you happen not to mind looking like a moron. Which, of course, all too many Americans don’t anymore. But here’s a hint to all y’all in the ganglion-cyst-where-there’s-supposed-to-be-an-actual-brain crowd: Nazis hate socialists. Indeed, they murder them, along with Jews and Gypsies and homosexuals. Get it?
And then there’s a third reason to avoid the Nazi analogy, namely that because everyone else is doing it, the term has now been diluted to the point of lacking all impact or meaning anymore. If everyone’s a Nazi, no one is.
All good reasons not to use the term.
But, that said, there are also three good reasons to do just that.
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