National Quality Unit Award

[NJCubScouter]

Could I make a tiny little request here? I know Seinfeld popularized this use of the word "Nazi" for people who make our lives inconvenient or unpleasant by their arbitrary rules or other unreasonable behavior, so it is difficult to complain when the "general public" does it. However, I have to tell you that it really does bother some people (including me, obviously, or I wouldn't be mentioning it.)

 

Unless the person in your Scout Shop is actually an adherent of an ideology that supports mass murder based on religious and racial characteristics, he or she is not a "Nazi." I know you did not mean anything by it. I just wanted to point this out.

[dsteele]

Thanks for the reminder, NJ.

[Fat Old Guy]

I think that the use of the term Nazi to refer to a dictatorial person started long before Seinfeld took to the stage.

 

Nazi (nts, nt-) noun

plural Nazis

1. A member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party, founded in Germany in 1919 and brought to power in 1933 under Adolf Hitler.

2. Often nazi . An adherent or advocate of policies characteristic of Nazism; a fascist.

 

fascist (fshst) noun

1. Often Fascist . An advocate or adherent of fascism.

2. A reactionary or dictatorial person.

 

 

 

 

 

[NWScouter]

To many it a very offensive term and brings back memories that they would like to leave behind. Many people now in the US lost all their relatives due to their murderous reign in Europe. My mother and brother lived under their occupation in Norway. They were lucky they were not part of the groups that Hitler decided to exterminate. I echo NJCubScouter request.

[NJCubScouter]

FatOldGuy says:

 

I think that the use of the term Nazi to refer to a dictatorial person started long before Seinfeld took to the stage.

 

It did. I said Seinfeld "popularized" it, which he did. I could have said "many people use 'Nazi' to refer to..." It doesn't matter. What matters is that it is offensive to some people to use a word that signifies the murder of millions of people to indicate someone who merely is arbitrary about who can apply for a Quality Unit Award, or any of the other things that the annoying registrars of the world like to do. But the council registrar didn't kill anyone, and more to the point in my case, they didn't kill about two-thirds of my great-grandparents, great-aunts and uncles and the cousins of my parents. The Nazis did. OK? You can string together all the dictionary definitions you want, I still don't think it's appropriate.

[OldGreyEagle]

I agree NJ, words matter