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Comment by darpa_escapee

9 years ago

What's with everyone bending over backwards to equate Nazis with non-genocidal, non-terrorist groups of people?

Given the chance, gay people will try to live their lives in peace.

Given the chance, Nazis will try to exterminate billions of people.

Nazis haven't been systematically persecuted and killed for millennia. Ironically, gay people have been systematically persecuted and murdered by Nazis. Such persecution is why there are protected classes, which some governments recognize gay people as belonging to.

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ckastner  9 years ago

> What's with everyone bending over backwards to equivocate Nazis with non-genocidal, non-terrorist groups of people?

That's not what is happening, as I understood it. The grandparent simply refuted the general argument that "The business does not need to be accountable to anyone" by providing a counterexample whereby unconditionally following this argument can lead to an unwanted outcome.

In other words: it's not that simple.

  • tchalla  9 years ago

    Actually, it is that simple. The grandparent made a false equivalence. Sexual orientation, color of skin, race etc. is not a choice that someone makes. Your political orientation is a choice you make. One of them is not the same as the other.

    • ckastner  9 years ago

      The false equivalence is in the original argument ("accountable to anyone"), that's what the grandparent was attempting to point out.

    • ygaf  9 years ago

      The equivalence the gp is making is between businesses, not clients. Businesses obviously are accountable to someone if they must serve gay people. It has already been pointed out that gays are a protected class, but deliberately(?) missing people's points has never helped a cause.

Melchizedek  9 years ago

> Nazis will try to exterminate billions of people

I have never, ever seen anyone argue for exterminating people (except as /b/-tier provocation).

Not even the small group of people actually identifying as National Socialists do that, much less the numerous people the media would call "nazis".

The straw man arguments are getting out of hand.