It would appear that English speaking really want to shift what nazi means, rather than have zionism be its own term with similar meaning.
It would appear that you really want to shift the conversation to the exact definition of the word “Nazi”, rather than have people talk about facists and the problems there of.
Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com 6 months ago
pettifogging it matters not what you call the fascists, they’re still practicing fascism. This pedantry your arguing is just that, pedantry, and it’s distracting.
teslasaur@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Like i said. Some Zionists are fascists, but can’t be nazis. By definition. When you start to throw words around that doesn’t mean what you think they mean, they will eventually stop having any meaning at all.
Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com 6 months ago
Pedantry separating out one right wing authoritarian from another isn’t helpful in this context. Maybe in others, but not in this one
Also, language has always evolved, the words didn’t lose meaning they changed meaning. ‘Literally’ became an antonym, it’s fine.
So you’re doubly wrong. Wrong for being a pedant, and wrong for your stated reason for pedantry.
teslasaur@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Perhaps if you studied the history and origins of nazism you’d think differently. When you call people nazis, that really aren’t nazis, then you just rob it of meaning.
The fact that sarcastic irony has twisted the meaning of a word faster during this age than should have been possible, only enforced my belief that the meaning of words are important. Otherwise you end up in a conversation with someone and you end up spending all of the time explaining ‘your’ definition of what a word means.