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Posted: **Sat Apr 25, 2015 1:09 am**

Russels Orbiting Teapot wrote:
Ardoki wrote:Robert Conquest is not a reliable source, considering his vocal political leanings and affiliations.

Have you read the works of Roy Medvedev, the soviet author who comes to the same figures?

I don't suppose you have a source for population figures across all the USSR that somehow make this genocide impossible?

Your like a holocaust denier here, and you're just going to shame yourself.

Here he accuses me of being like a holocaust denier. I find that very offensive and insulting as I am opposed to the far-right in all its forms.

Posted: **Sat Apr 25, 2015 1:09 am**

Washington Resistance Army wrote:
Ardoki wrote:I am not a holocaust denier.

You're close enough.

Posted: **Sat Apr 25, 2015 1:44 am**

Not even remotely actionable.

Posted: **Sat Apr 25, 2015 1:45 am**

The Archregimancy wrote:Not even remotely actionable.

Okay sorry.

So am I allowed to call people Nazis if they are too right-wing in my opinion? Or would that be an infraction?

EDIT: I was just wondering as I've wanted to do it several times. However it would probably be inappropriate.

Posted: **Sat Apr 25, 2015 1:51 am**

Ardoki wrote:
The Archregimancy wrote:Not even remotely actionable.

Okay sorry.

So am I allowed to call people Nazis if they are too right-wing in my opinion?

As part of a reasoned argument, yes.

Don't run around stating "you're just like a Nazi" without any context. Point out precisely why the policies they espouse are similar to Nazism.

This is what Russels Orbiting Teapot has done; he has cited specific works in support of his argument that your position is, in his belief, functionally similar to that of a Holocaust denier.

Posted: **Sat Apr 25, 2015 1:52 am**

The Archregimancy wrote:
Ardoki wrote:Okay sorry.

So am I allowed to call people Nazis if they are too right-wing in my opinion?

As part of a reasoned argument, yes.

Don't run around stating "you're just like a Nazi" without any context. Point out precisely why the policies they espouse are similar to Nazism.

This is what Russels Orbiting Teapot has done; he has cited specific works in support of his argument that your position is, in his belief, functionally similar to that of a Holocaust denier.

Okay, thank you.

Posted: **Sat Apr 25, 2015 1:54 am**

Ardoki wrote:
The Archregimancy wrote:
As part of a reasoned argument, yes.

Don't run around stating "you're just like a Nazi" without any context. Point out precisely why the policies they espouse are similar to Nazism.

This is what Russels Orbiting Teapot has done; he has cited specific works in support of his argument that your position is, in his belief, functionally similar to that of a Holocaust denier.

Okay, thank you.

Just be very careful about how you do it - don't take this clarification as somehow proof that you can randomly run around accusing people of being Nazis just because they're right wing.

Selected specific comparison of policies as part of debate is fair enough; but it would be very easy to overdo.

Posted: **Sat Apr 25, 2015 1:55 am**

The Archregimancy wrote:
Ardoki wrote:Okay, thank you.

Just be very careful about how you do it - don't take this clarification as somehow proof that you can randomly run around accusing people of being Nazis just because they're right wing.

Selected specific comparison of policies as part of debate is fair enough; but it would be very easy to overdo.

Okay. I just thought of the Australian government's detainment of refugees as similar to the nazi policies, though I didn't know if I was allowed to say that yesterday.

Posted: **Sat Apr 25, 2015 2:12 am**

Ardoki wrote:
The Archregimancy wrote:
Just be very careful about how you do it - don't take this clarification as somehow proof that you can randomly run around accusing people of being Nazis just because they're right wing.

Selected specific comparison of policies as part of debate is fair enough; but it would be very easy to overdo.

Okay. I just thought of the Australian government's detainment of refugees as similar to the nazi policies, though I didn't know if I was allowed to say that yesterday.

If you can outline why, then this would be acceptable. After all, you're not even accusing someone in the forums of being a Nazi in this example - merely outlining why you think a specific government is carrying out refugee detainment policies that bear a resemblance to policies carried out by Nazi Germany.

Note that I wouldn't usually go into this much detail about explaining context in a Report thread; however, since this is germane to explaining why your original report wasn't actionable, it's likely helpful to outline this for you.

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