the totalitarian terror regimes of the twentieth century.
That’s the phrase you use to avoid provoking the irrationality that comes from referencing Hitler?
France’s was a case of willingness to convict nine innocents lest a guilty person go free, while a significant part of Germany’s was gratuitous—this is a qualitative difference.
While “X was the worst thing until Y” can inappropriately associate X and Y, there are in this case many connections and similarities between X and Y.
People are well trained to go instant frothing at the mouth crazy at such words as “Hitler”, “Nazi”, and “fascist”. Four legs good, two legs bad.
But such words as “totalitarian” and “terror” instead provoke the anti anti communist reflex and the anti Islamophobia reflex, where with great sophistication, calmness, maturity and civility they assure us that one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.
Downvoted: If you know these words provoke irrational responses, then that’s all the more reason that you shouldn’t have used them. We’re a forum that seeks to promote rationality, not irrationality.
That’s the phrase you use to avoid provoking the irrationality that comes from referencing Hitler?
People are well trained to go instant frothing at the mouth crazy at such words as “Hitler”, “Nazi”, and “fascist”. Four legs good, two legs bad.
But such words as “totalitarian” and “terror” instead provoke the anti anti communist reflex and the anti Islamophobia reflex, where with great sophistication, calmness, maturity and civility they assure us that one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.
Downvoted: If you know these words provoke irrational responses, then that’s all the more reason that you shouldn’t have used them. We’re a forum that seeks to promote rationality, not irrationality.