I agree that it's not right or helpful to mislabel people or call names. Please don't read my comment as supporting that in any way. What I was addressing is the perception that it's one-sided.

I don't think looking at a single submission is adequate in dealing with the perception issue, but for the sake of argument, I looked at all of the references for "nazi" (as it was the first on your list) in the comments for the submission you referenced. Only one of them in my opinion can be construed as name-calling, and that is nuanced in that it explicitly says "not all". Still not great, admittedly, but not the blanket name-calling you imply.

This is all the effort I'm willing to do for you on this front. I think this shows good faith. I encourage you to take a step back and look at everything as a whole as objectively as you can. I know this is hard (it's hard for me), but it's increasingly important lest we increase the polarization we already have. We can't control how other people behave directly. All we can do is do our best to control our own behavior to encourage others to do likewise and move forward constructively.

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13508902

popular support for Nazism has been purged from German culture.

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13509130

Trump voters are not 100% made up of nazis, in essence.

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13510141

Germany wasn't 100% made up of Nazi supporters either. That didn't stop disaster.

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13508404

I've sen a lot of angst over the last week about people on the left expressing approval for 'punching nazis' following Richard Spencer suffering a whack on the ear during a TV interview. It's true, someone, probably form the left, carried out an act of physical violence while he was just standing there talking.

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I am even wiling to defend the concept of free speech for people like neo-nazis and the kkk - but only up to the point where they endorse violence against others as opposed to merely asserting their own superiority.

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Punching nazis is OK. The left gets to decide who is a nazi.

Punching commies is OK. The right gets to decide who is a commie.

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We restricted Nazi immigration, we restricted communist immigration, and we should certainly restrict Muslim extremist immigration.

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13508999

If you mean Nazi Germany, my opinion is that there aren't actually that many parallels.

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For some reason I'm thinking of a parable that goes like: "First they came for the Nazis"...

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And Obama was the biggest nazi of all times

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I'm not saying it has not errupted (it has) I'm saying violence and the glorification if it (as in people sharing the punch a Nazi video) is a dead end and will definitely strengthen trump support.

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It is not possible to really invoke Godwin's law regarding Trump, he already opened this door when he accused the CIA of being like NAZIs for reporting he facts.