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megwrites ([personal profile] megwrites) wrote in [personal profile] manifesta 2010-08-06 11:34 am (UTC)

There was an old Seinfield episode a long time ago that featured a character who got nicknamed "the Soup Nazi" because he demanded that customers order their soup a certain way and was very strict and regimented.

And people since then have raised objections that nickname as making a joke of what the actual Nazis were like and that they weren't just organized or strict, they were mass murdering fuckheads (as many important historians and Eddie Izzard have said) and that it trivialized what the victims of their regime endured. Others have dismissed these objections and want to keep using things like "Soup Nazi" or "Grammar Nazi" and whatnot because apparently, people who mass murder other people are funny, ergo, piles of emaciated bodies stacked to room height are just HI-LARIOUS.

And that's the "Soup Nazi" reference, which just proves that Elizabeth Bear not only doesn't get it, but is actively taking steps to ever avoid getting it in case she trips, falls, and somehow accidentally lands on some empathy or understanding or "political correctness" as she calls it.

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