Did Wal-Mart kill your mother or something? It’s bad enough that you’re making ludicrous, unsupported claims about what Wal-Mart plans in terms of expansion, but to state that my defense is “the MBA equivalent of holocaust denial”?
You’re a pathetic piece of slime. Even if my argument is incorrect - which you still have produced no evidence of, and have produced no serious argument against- to simply write it off as akin to holocaust denial? To use inflammatory, insulting terms to lump me in with anti-semites and assholes because I don’t immediately see the anti-corporate-Wal-Mart-is-Satan’s-progeny light?
I seem to remember once having respect for your posts. I apologize for having made that mistake.
I don’t know…I read the thread, and if anything, this just errs on the side of hyperbole.
To me, (IMHO) it looks like Little Nemo was trying to make a fervent point, and compared Corrado’s thought to something most people view as absurd. I’m sure it stung, but I don’t see the personal venom in it.
Holocaust denial is something no one can argue in good faith. What Nemo is saying is that the facts of the case are so obvious that only moral lepers–equivalent to Holocaust deniers–could disagree.
From what I read (and my coding stinks, so I’m not going to attempt getting his quote from another thread), he compared denying an aspect of his argument to Holocaust Denial.
I didn’t see him directly compare Corrado to Nazi apologists, skinheads, Gargamel, or Paul Hornung (note: by including Paul Hornung in the prior statement, I am not implying that he is evil, a nazi sympathist, or a fictitious cat-owning smurf-hater…he’s just evil due to a Packer’s uniform).
I don’t know…the only people who generally do deny the Holocaust ARE Nazi apologists, skinheads, and other rabid anti-semites. So, it seems to me that he is implying the following:
Wal-Mart has habits that are in the same realm of evil as the Holocaust
This evil is as well-known, well-documented, and obvious as the Holocaust
John Corrado, or anyone who questions items 1 & 2 above, is no better than a Nazi sympathizer or skinhead.
It seems clear to me that *Little Nemo ** was making an analogy to the argument method of holocaust denial (inaccurately, IMO) rather than an analogy to the actual moral stature of holocaust deniers. Still over-the-top hyperbole, and as I mentioned, an inaccurate comparison, but perhaps not totally reprehensible.
*I don’t believe holocaust deniers deny only the intent of Nazi leadership to liquidate the Jewish population, but rather the actual fact of the liquidation (and I hope these terms are not offensive). The person to whom **Little Nemo ** is replying is only denying Walmart’s intent.
I see that too. Seems to me “holocaust denier” means more an intellectually dishonest argument or a stubborn resistance to fact. Not in the best taste, prob, but not an insult.