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I'd be curious to know your answers to these because they seem rather obvious to me..

Just because some people calling someone a nazi are wrong doesn't mean everyone calling someone a nazi is wrong.

We both know what the 'answer' is because we are normal people who understand nuance - a skill many people have lost as they have come to have their ideals defined by their identity, not the other way around.

> Just because some people calling someone a nazi are wrong doesn't mean everyone calling someone a nazi is wrong.

Sometimes they aren't just wrong, they are the loudest.

From this reply your answer could still be read either ways and that someone is still a nazi regardless of how loud someone is.

Those of the conservative persuasion love to use the loudness of some people to invalidate all condemnations of nazis, right or wrong.

Those of the sane persuasion are sick of the loud taking all the space and being celebrated on the left. I think conservatives are crazy but the left are crazier and they invent new types of madness almost by the hour. I'd rather have the stability of the nut jobs in the Vatican than MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA, defund the police, abolish the supreme court, abolish private property, etc, etc.

True enough, but the likelihood that the person calling another person a Nazi is correct about the other person is so low that it’s much more likely they’re wrong rather than right. (This is true just statistically speaking.)

Absolutes are not usually very compelling nor very interesting, just as high improbabilities are usually neither compelling nor interesting.

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