Please don't cross into personal attack, no matter how wrong someone else is or you feel they are. That just disincentivizes people from participating here, especially on topics that they know about. You can make your substantive points without that.

That goes 10x for nazification.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Thanks, dang, you do a great job moderating discussion on HN.

FWIW I don’t feel personally attacked here, and I accept that this is a contentious issue where hyperbole is likely to happen, but I really appreciate you being a mediating voice advocating for positive discourse rather than just shutting down all discussion that becomes contentious.

K. Sorry.

Maybe I’m old fashioned, but I’d rather address the nazis themselves than the tools they use. People still drive Volkswagens and wear Hugo Boss.

Edit: A bit surprised to see this comment flagged. What about HN's guidelines were violated by this response to the parent comment's allusion to Nazis?

Each part of this mutually beneficial relationship is equally replaceable and necessary.

You should read “ IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation.” It’s not either/or, it’s both/and.

This fucking matters. Letting corporations off the hook because they were just following orders enables genocide.

Please don't do this here. Nothing good can come of it—it's the oldest and most extreme move in the internet playbook, and its meaning has been diluted to the point of being just a point-scoring status move, and a cheap one at that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I’m not a fan of invoking Godwin’s law, I only mentioned the nazis because the commenter I responded to make the allusion.

And you’re entitled to your opinion, of course, but I wouldn’t recommend trying to presume anyone’s intentions.

Sorry for saying the parent commenter was arguing in bad faith. What I meant to say is that the parent commenter used rhetoric which was unhelpful to the conversation.