# Litte Nemo, you're an asshole. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 30, 2006, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/litte-nemo-youre-an-asshole/370831 "2006-08-30T21:01:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![John\_Corrado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a88e4f/32.png) [@John\_Corrado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Corrado)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2006, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/litte-nemo-youre-an-asshole/370831/1 "2006-08-30T21:01:20Z")
From [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=386115) thread: > [@Little Nemo](#): > > This sounds like the MBA equivalent of holocaust denial. 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. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2006, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/litte-nemo-youre-an-asshole/370831/2 "2006-08-30T21:18:48Z")
Seriously Nemo, you should apologize for this. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2006, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/litte-nemo-youre-an-asshole/370831/3 "2006-08-30T21:22:46Z")
[QUOTE=John Corrado] “the MBA equivalent of holocaust denial”? . [/QUOTE] No matter how Evil Wal-mart is (or isn’t) this line was completely out of place in GQ, and you have every right to be pissed. **Little Nemo** , you got some 'splain’n to do. ---
**Author:** ![Cemetery\_Savior](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@Cemetery\_Savior](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cemetery_Savior)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2006, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/litte-nemo-youre-an-asshole/370831/4 "2006-08-30T21:28:26Z")
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. My $0.02… -Cem ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2006, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/litte-nemo-youre-an-asshole/370831/5 "2006-08-30T21:31:37Z")
No personal venom? 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. ---
**Author:** ![Cemetery\_Savior](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@Cemetery\_Savior](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cemetery_Savior)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2006, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/litte-nemo-youre-an-asshole/370831/6 "2006-08-30T21:37:25Z")
[QUOTE=Lemur866] No personal venom? 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. [/QUOTE] I think you’re extrapolating… 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). Loose comparison, loose rant. -Cem ---
**Author:** ![Sarahfeena](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarahfeena/32/519_2.png) [@Sarahfeena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarahfeena)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2006, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/litte-nemo-youre-an-asshole/370831/7 "2006-08-30T21:42:42Z")
[QUOTE=Cemetery Savior] I think you’re extrapolating… 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). Loose comparison, loose rant. -Cem [/QUOTE] 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: 1. Wal-Mart has habits that are in the same realm of evil as the Holocaust 2. This evil is as well-known, well-documented, and obvious as the Holocaust 3. **John Corrado** , or anyone who questions items 1 & 2 above, is no better than a Nazi sympathizer or skinhead. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2006, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/litte-nemo-youre-an-asshole/370831/8 "2006-08-30T21:54:04Z")
I think that the argument was the equivalent of using a sledgehammer to smash a wal\*nut. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2006, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/litte-nemo-youre-an-asshole/370831/9 "2006-08-30T22:11:17Z")
You know who else used to make puns, **Jjimm**? Stalin, that’s who. Curiously, there is no record of Hilter ever making a pun. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2006, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/litte-nemo-youre-an-asshole/370831/10 "2006-08-30T22:54:09Z")
He had a whole team of comedy writers but they were all…well, you know. ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2006, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/litte-nemo-youre-an-asshole/370831/11 "2006-08-30T23:02:21Z")
[QUOTE=elucidator] He had a whole team of comedy writers but they were all…well, you know. [/QUOTE] German? ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2006, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/litte-nemo-youre-an-asshole/370831/12 "2006-08-30T23:08:09Z")
Nah, blitzed. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2006, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/litte-nemo-youre-an-asshole/370831/13 "2006-08-30T23:21:17Z")
No jury in the world would convict. ---
**Author:** ![threemae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f9b8f/32.png) [@threemae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/threemae)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2006, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/litte-nemo-youre-an-asshole/370831/14 "2006-08-30T23:24:43Z")
It was a metaphor. A strained one, but hardly an agrievious personal insult against you, **Corrado.** You’re being too sensitive. ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2006, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/litte-nemo-youre-an-asshole/370831/15 "2006-08-30T23:25:08Z")
[QUOTE=Lemur866] No personal venom? 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. [/QUOTE] DEAR GOD! Someone engaged in hyperbole! _It’s a crime!_ ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2006, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/litte-nemo-youre-an-asshole/370831/16 "2006-08-30T23:28:05Z")
If it were, they’d drag all the rest of you off to the slam. And I’d get lonesome… ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2006, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/litte-nemo-youre-an-asshole/370831/17 "2006-08-30T23:28:17Z")
Let’s get a little more context here: > [@](#): > > Quote: > > > [@](#): > > > > Does Walmart move into towns, drive locals out of business, and then later decide that the town isn’t profitable enough and move out? Sure. Do they do this as a business strategy? That’s ludicrous. > > This sounds like the MBA equivalent of holocaust denial. Sure, a business is expanding. And sure, it has strategies for its expansion. And sure, it follows certain patterns when it expands. And sure, these patterns produce the same results. But to claim the business planned those results? Heavens, no, I’m sure they’re shocked every time it happens. 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. Roddy ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2006, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/litte-nemo-youre-an-asshole/370831/18 "2006-08-30T23:35:22Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2006, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/litte-nemo-youre-an-asshole/370831/19 "2006-08-30T23:40:00Z")
[QUOTE=Lemur866] Curiously, there is no record of Hilter ever making a pun. [/QUOTE] Oddly enough, Hitler only needed the electricity shut off when he shouted “Kill all the Juice”. I’m very, very sorry for that ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2006, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/litte-nemo-youre-an-asshole/370831/20 "2006-08-30T23:42:16Z")
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