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Drawing that conclusion from your comment's only response being one upvote is a leap.
Weak diversion attempt.
The main point was that people who shout "Nazi" wouldn't recognize literal Hitler quotes right in front them. I can play a "Hitler or " quotes game all day.
This reverse-Godwin* strain of mania is just getting old. And the illogical and counter-productive mob-like activity that comes with it doesn't work on people anymore. But feel free to continue circlejerking about it in mastodon and co.
*Call someone Nazi first, and go from there.
That's one of many conclusions that can be drawn from the fact that only one person engaged with your comment. It's just as valid to conclude that people who read it recognised it but didn't respond.
I understand your point, I just don't think it's held up by anything that's happened here. I also think it's a diversion from the main topic: a neovim maintainer doubled-down on siding with the racist idealogue DHH.
I haven't called DHH a Nazi. I'm perfectly content to call him a racist, because he says racist things and espouses racist views. It doesn't bother me if people do call him a Nazi, because to me his views and rhetoric are just as abhorrent even if they are not technically all tenets of National Socialism. Debating whether he meets all the criteria for being a Nazi or a Christian Nationalist or a Fascist is a distraction from acknowledging that the things he says have real, negative and dangerous consequences for marginalised people.