[Alumni-chat] How much grammar? Those who care are NOT Nazis!

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In a message dated 4/27/2007 12:24:07 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
mbrower32 at comcast.net writes:

The term  Nazi should be reserved to  
represent the horrors of genocide and of  letting a country slide into  
Fascism.  (Which, by-the-way the  US is on the path towards.  I am  
currently writing my speech on  Impeaching the Pres and VP for  
tomorrow's citizen's rally in Boston  - but that;s another topic.)



Sorry, NAZI is a forshortening of NSDAP, which translates as the National  
Socialist German Workers' Party.
 
It didn't slide into Fascism -- it was the German form of Fascism from the  
get go.  
 
And it does not necessarily stand for genocide.  Racism (Culture and  
Religion miscomprehended as race) was central to it, but it was not the only  
possible outcome of the ideology.  
 
Personally, these days while it is not all that well understood for lack of  
historical memory, I prefer the use of the term NASSI as a short lived stupid  
notion for what to call authoritarian totalitarianism.  When the Berlin  Wall 
came crashing down, but before the "Volk" got around to crashing into the  
Stasi headquarters, the E. German Government briefly changed the name of the  
"security police" to NASSI -- and then everyone had a great laugh as to how  the 
former Stasi could be so stupid with their name change.  
 
The Gestapo lived for 12 years -- the Stasi for over 40.  We as  Americans 
ought to be able to say what we mean without badly muddling German  History, 
references and the names of things.  Why not just talk about the  Klan?



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