Whether a particular comparison to Hitler or Nazis is rhetorically persuasive or is excessive and thus weakens the impact of appropriate comparisons is not a matter of hard objective fact validity or truthfulness but at least in instances where reasonable minds might differ a matter of subjective appropriateness and degree Several years ago the New York Times published a letter of mine but edited out my correct use of the subjunctive case When I questioned the editor very politely and deferentially he explained the subjunctive is no longer used in modern English except for an assertion contrary to fact e g If the Earth were flat then which my subjunctive usage in the letter happened to be although I continue to use the subjunctive wherever it is grammatically correct Was I asleep when the subjunctive case was ripped from my language Did the Anglos sic and Saxons posthumously defeat the Romans and seize linguistic dominance while I was away When I was in 4th grade the teacher taught the class said that it was incorrect to begin a sentence with because I asked why and gave her a grammatically correct example of the usage She acknowledged that my example was correct but said one should not begin a sentence with because because that often leads to error she was probably concerned about sentence fragments e g Because it rained To this day probably because of my resentment of the teacher dumbing down the language I begin a disproportionate proportion of my sentences with because Peace Talk