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Because calling them Nazis doesn't affect them - they're proud of it. I don't particularly care about being ACCURATE with those pieces of trash, and my attempts to do so would only be taken by them as a sign of weakness. It's about getting to them psychologically and showing them I don't respect them in a language they can understand. I get that the language is offensive to people who are not them as well, but it's like a gun - it's not just about the weapon, it's about who you point it at. If it gets to Nazi bastards, I'm going to use it.
Oh awesome, could you explain how making fun of fat people constitutes psychological warfare against Nazis? It's not like a gun, because a gun is a fucking inanimate object, and society and culture are not.
When you say that fatness is something that is akin to the same level of moral depravity as subscribing to genocidal politics, you are reproducing fascist constructions of the ideal human body and the relationship between physical deformity and social degradation. Liberals have used ageism, ableism, queerohobia and transphobia, racism, and yes, fatphobia to make fun of Nazis because most of them have no idea what is wrong about fascism besides the distastefulness of their tactics. It's not about the language being "offensive," it's about anti-fascism.
You wanna be a fascist or not?
"Liberals have used ageism, ableism, queerohobia and transphobia, racism, and yes, fatphobia" One of these things is not like the others. One of these things doesn't belong. You're up in arms about the one thing a person can help. Fatness is curable. It can be done without drugs even.
I don't particularly care for fat shaming myself. I'm classified as obese and struggle with compulsive eating the same as anyone, but you'll never see me endorse a fat pride parade the same as a gay pride parade. Being fat is physically and mentally unhealthy and should not be promoted. Being body positive is good, being fat positive is not.
But we could probably all agree that it's okay to shame ICE for being stupid evil assholes.
I also don't really care about offending people, but claiming that they are conflating fatness with being a Nazi is ludicrous.
Them being fat isn't worse than them being a Nazi, you braindead, victimhood-seeking pillouck. It is just offensive to say to them and makes them sad. Trying to police every word that people say is also highly fascist.
You wanna be a fascist or not?
You really are trying to twist what language means. We use words to be understood and you seem intent on mischaracterizing and misattributing the meaning of words when it suits you. Should we restrain from calling them pedophiles too? I mean surly there are some pedophiles out there who would be offended at being linking to Nazis. It BESMIRCHES the good name of pedophiles.
Please, good sir, tell me what insults I can hurl at the people MURDERING AND ABUSING PEOPLE that they actually care about? Shall I dig back a hundred years to find something no one else finds offensive? And they will?