Similar much?

[dwer.livejournal.com]

WAAAAAAAY over the top!

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[dwer.livejournal.com]

That second one was the first comic I've seen in a while that made me go "woah, over the line." That's why I posted it.

[sandwichwarrior.livejournal.com]

The Nazi talk will always be "over the line"

...unless of course, one side or the other manages land the Olympics despite oppressing(and later eterminating) several million of thier own people.

[pacotelic.livejournal.com]

In the last two centuries the Americans, Chinese, and the Russians did that, easy. If you count Colonies then the British and the French were respnsible too. Usually through famine, but that's a pretty bad way to go, especially for millions.

[sandwichwarrior.livejournal.com]

One could argue over wether the Plains Nations constituted "Our own people" but I'll concede you your point over the Chinese.

Even so, the modern American political parties have showed themselves to be rather inept when it comes to genocide(or international politics for that matter) so the Nazi talk is still over the line.

The more words like "Nazism", "Communism", or "Racism" are invoked in political debates the more diluted they become.

[pacotelic.livejournal.com]

Maybe not a million, but the Trail of Tears was certainly an east coast tribe. I'm sure the Germans did not consider the jewry "their own people" either. Even the Chinese and Russian famines were a split between central bureaucratic inflexibility and the farmers who actually grew the food. Stalin killed maybe a few hundred thousand by direct political purges. The other tens of millions was all agricultural incompetence.

Rwanda, Cambodia and Turkey while we're at it, though they're in no danger of hosting an Olympics soon.

And yes, the arms race of rhetoric has thoroughly polluted the sting of many words.