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It is paramount to a functioning society to have zero tolerance for nazis.

Thank you for saying this. I recently heard that story "if you let one Nazi in your bar, pretty soon you have a Nazi bar"

Also, if you call everyone a nazi, all you have is nazi bars. I was called a nazi last week for driving a Tesla, and I have Jewish ancestry. The word hardly makes any sense.

In this case you aren't being called a nazi because of your ancestry. You're being called a nazi for supporting the car brand of a nazi. It does make sense.

A lot of people who definitely were not intending to be nazies are driving swasticars, because they didn't know about how nazi the car company owner was. But here we are. You definitely know now. What you do now matters.

Nope, still doesn’t make sense. It might give you a sense of satisfaction, but targeting the owners of those vehicles is immature. You have no idea what their financial situation is or what else they might be dealing with. Just because something feels good doesn’t mean it’s right.

That is absolute bonkers.

I hope you’re having fun, because that kind of logic won’t lead you anywhere where people get paid to reason.

You do understand you're on a site composed mostly of people who get paid to reason all day, right?

I’m sure this site is an outlet for a lot of straight thinkers, but that doesn’t mean we’re being entirely rational in this discussion.

I agree, but I'm sure you can guess why?

Blame Elon Musk and his Nazi salutes and Hitler apologist retweets for that. It can't be much simpler to understand.

I’m happy you’re not near my car.

I'm not a moron. I don't blame Tesla car owners. I put the blame where it belongs: Elon Musk

The word makes perfect sense, somebody just used it wrong. Don't let's go down the post-modernist "nothing means anything" route just because some people are too partisan to use words properly.

What the person should have said is "a Nazi made that car".

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