Isn't calling a woman a Feminazi like calling a black man an AfroNazi?

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

I mean, why are so many white men afraid of the people they opress?

I think people like all these white neocons are just afraid of their wives (and probably even more so their mistresses) leaving them for black men.

What are they so scared of?

How can a powerless person be a "nazi"?

[President Jesus]

1. What's the difference? Both terms are utterly inane to begin with.

[asthmaticeog]

2. You're missing something.

The word "feminazi" emerged so as to attempt to imply that everyone who believed in or advocated for social equality for women was really a shrill, dogmatic, Dworkin-type anti-male feminist, which is obviously ludicrous. There really aren't any race-relations parallels that I can think of there - black separatism, for example, has never reached the mainstream the way Dworkin/McKinnon et. al. did for a minute there in the '90s.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

5. I wasn't really trying to draw a direct race-relations parallel

I was trying to point out how frightened they seem when they use such a blatantly ironic and utterly offensive term.

[asthmaticeog]

3. Self-deleted

Accidental double-post of comment #2. Sorry.

[porphyrian]

4. You Nailed It

The neocons use fear as their primary tool in population control, whether it's fear of their military might, or fear of their persecution, or fear of their God. They do this, I believe, because fear is also what motivates them - fear of losing power, fear of getting caught, fear of any substantial change. The use of -nazi name-calling is just a microcosmic example of their pre-emptive strike tactic, for fear of losing in a fair fight. Frankly, I hate the chickenshit assholes.

[evil_orange_cat]

6. this isn't a stereotypical "neo-con" thing... it's paleoconservative

neo-cons are stricly pro-war hawks when it comes to foreign policy... they don't have a domestic agenda, nor do they have positions like, "women should be kept in the home"... and yadda yadda... they aren't anti-woman's lib. That's just plain old conservatism.