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Re:Amazon's Union-Busting Training Video by Maschinesky on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @06:18AM (#37494773)
"Godwin himself has also criticized the overapplication of the law, claiming that it does not articulate a fallacy, but rather is intended to reduce the frequency of inappropriate and hyperbolic comparisons. "
Re:Amazon's Union-Busting Training Video by bigDinosaur on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @06:55AM (#37495037)
In this case it is hyperbolic. Amazon is many bad things, but Nazis they are not (I shouldn't have to say that).
Re:Amazon's Union-Busting Training Video by hnlmorg on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @07:28AM (#37495304)
A comparison doesn’t mean a literal equivalence. It means a similarity. In this case there is a similarity with regards to the propaganda. They’re not equivalent but there are definitely not unlike each other either.
Re:Amazon's Union-Busting Training Video by couchand on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @07:18AM (#37495215)
I don't think the original comparison was inapt -- the video is hard evidence of appalling and disgusting propaganda. It will not be viewed kindly by history.
Re:Amazon's Union-Busting Training Video by Vinnl on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @07:29AM (#37495308)
But the point of the comparison is not to make Amazon/Bezos out to be Nazis; it's to point out that this practice might in the future be looked upon as an artefact of the times that hopefully no longer happen in the museum visitor's time.
Re:Amazon's Union-Busting Training Video by Maschinesky on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @07:46AM (#37495444)
Are you aware of the following?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbeit_macht_frei?wprov=sfla1

In my opinion this it's very well.

Re:Amazon's Union-Busting Training Video by sinman on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @09:52AM (#37496754)
I think the gp is kind to even call this "hyperbolic". There is no comparison between Amazon and a concentration camp, just because people are worked hard at amazon.

The reason Auschwitz was bad was not because people worked hard there. It was because people were enslaved and murdered there.

It would be like comparing a camp site to a concentration camp, because both are "camps". The comparison yields no useful insights.

Re:Amazon's Union-Busting Training Video by Maschinesky on Thursday September 14, 2023 @02:16AM (#37505566)
It's about the sentiment of work and working people to death for nothing.

Unions make workconditions better