tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2382434094642330871.post5835044879238525035..comments2023-10-14T11:06:44.657-07:00Comments on Jihadi Jew: "Nazi" No More Part 1: Tea, Cookies and Serious TalkLee (Tzvi) Weissmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11309136974282210244noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2382434094642330871.post-60788671010825051822011-02-06T16:46:24.885-08:002011-02-06T16:46:24.885-08:00Words can enlighten and words can destroy. Sometim...Words can enlighten and words can destroy. Sometimes their effect is due to misunderstanding, and sometimes their effect is due to perfect understanding. Too often, the power of effective words is used to obscure the intent and purpose of communication. What is important is that knowledge and logic find a place within a passionate discussion. What is critical, though, is that the participants do not lose sight of the passion that engendered the discussion in first place.Arthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04869772105441712552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2382434094642330871.post-54295712072325910622010-12-30T10:10:54.641-08:002010-12-30T10:10:54.641-08:00Here is how Godwin's Law applies to your artic...Here is how Godwin's Law applies to your article Lee. You referred to the accusation of "Nazi" as "hardball" or "tough talk". While I don't disagree that your word choice is inappropriate, I believe it is too forgiving. I find it really showing that your entire alternative "meaningful usages of the term” in the second paragraph of the article are questions. It is showing because these alternatives are actual examples of conversation, it allows if not demands a response from an opposing viewpoint; while calling someone a Nazi does the exact opposite, it deters any voice other than your own, because the other voice is after all illegitimate. The Irony is that the labeling of someone as a Nazi is itself a form of Fascism. Godwin's law is that the longer a "conversation" occurs online and really in real life for that matter the likelihood is that it will become a circular one, once that occurs it is no longer a conversation and therefore it justifies the label Nazi so that it can desist. The Question is: are we ready to have a conversation or are we still simply satisfied by our own viewpoints? The latter sounds to me in all honesty to be the case, even for well intentioned people who seek progress. In my experience I find that most people who seek dialogue have no clue what to do with said dialogue, it just a more acceptable existence to their understanding to civil society. I think more productive than dialogue is a harsh self assessment of how we define ourselves. The more critical we are of ourselves the better we are qualified to exist with others. But again I’m just repeating your earlier statements.Simpletonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13987620242139891818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2382434094642330871.post-58305189128335244612010-12-29T20:03:36.528-08:002010-12-29T20:03:36.528-08:00I had never heard of this. Its funny but to take i...I had never heard of this. Its funny but to take it seriously for a second, it is an expression of that "show-stopping" quality of Nazi analogies. When all else fails..Lee (Tzvi) Weissmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11309136974282210244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2382434094642330871.post-14771239500559919222010-12-29T19:54:22.072-08:002010-12-29T19:54:22.072-08:00I don't think this is all that aplicable to th...I don't think this is all that aplicable to the topic at hand and I don't want to take away from it's seriousness but have you ever heard of this?<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_lawSimpletonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13987620242139891818noreply@blogger.com