Do you find "blank" Nazi terms offensive? (I.E. "You're a soup Nazi. You're a leash Nazi. You're a book Nazi." Etc.,)
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My teacher actually called me a surf nazi in high school because I was always surfing.
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No, I find people who get offended offensive.
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I dont think it's wrong really... but maybe only because the holocaust never personally affected my life. To those who did deal with that horrible event it might hurt them. I dont know.
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I don't, but it's used too lightly. I've been called one on many occasions and I'm not a National Socialist nor do I like genocide.
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Not really, Nazi is just the abbreviation for the "National Socialist" political party that Hitler lead... People who use it to insult people have no idea what the word really means : / However it's usually used like... "Grammar Nazi" for example, to mean that someone is incredibly strict and stuff with their grammar - that doesn't really have anything to do with 'Nazi', but it's used in a way that people now understand to mean strict or detailed to the point of cruelty or something... So no, I'm not in the slightest offended by people using the word - it's real meaning is pretty benign, and it's intended meaning in the cases where it is used is also rather benign ; )
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Never come across it before but my gut reaction is that it is offensive. The word whatever it's original meaning might be has serious connotations that should never be forgotten. If somebody called me a Nazi I would be deeply hurt and offended due to what has gone before. Etymology cannot coe to the defence of the word. Gay now has evolved into meanining homosexual and so what was once a word meaning happy is no longer used for that purpose and just as I would not expect somebody to call me gay any longer I would not expect to be called a Nazi!
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No, I just think it means that someone is really obsessive about something, and requires that all do it the same way.
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The only one that I don't find offensive is "Soup Nazi" because of the Seinfeld ep's popularity and it's recognition as "pop culture." (Which, based on the next part of my answer makes me guilty of applying a double standard.) I can understand how someone that knows nothing of Seinfeld would find it offensive, though. I think it's carrying it too far to apply it to other activities/states of being. It cheapens the horror of what the real Nazis did, IMO.
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No, I do not. People call me the "Overtime Nazi" at work all the time because I kick everyone out when they have 39.75 hours;)
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It has never crossed my mind that using Nazi with another name like soup-nazi etc would be offensive to anyone other than maybe a Jewish person. I would see it hurting their feeling. I think is just another one of those phrases that we take for granted.
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No. Why would I?
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No, because I am not a German nor a Jew. I cannot say for them.
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