I think it was Rush, with his “feminazi”. Interesting that conservatives and liberal apologists for conservatives object to anyone describing elite members of the republican party as “nazis” but don’t really seem to have much issue with Rush disparaging women with whom he disagrees as “nazis”. I remember listening to Rush in my bosses car more than a decade ago as he spoke of the terrible feminazis, and I remember being taken aback that anyone would use such a word.
I don’t think I was taken aback enough. Apparently, neither were most people.
Jake
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Well, "fascist" never really went away
as it was/is the invective-of-choice in spirited philosophical discussions between groups such as street protesters and uniformed persons of the law enforcement persuasion.
The actual n-word…? You could be right with the Rushbaugh link. Extended head-scratching has failed to turn up any other usages by persons with comparable media exposure. Obviously, scholarly discussions of the topic by, like, real professional historians inexplicably fail to get quite so much airtime and can continue to be safely ignored.
Of course had it been Kos or Atrios or another of the DFH
faction who drummed this term back into popular consumption we would have been Goodwinned half to death and cast out into the desert with little bells tied around our necks, but IOKIYAR
, y’know.
Clearly, I conflated two things - fascist and nazi
thank you for aiding me in clearing up my confusion. :)
I meant “fascists” when I spoke of “conservatives and liberal apologists for conservatives object to anyone describing elite members of the republican party as “nazis””. But it makes my point even stronger - rush called feminists “nazis” and has received only mild blowback, but dare call the totalitarian, authoritarian, corporatist republican elite fascists and you better stand back while the shit hits the fan.
Yup, yet another example of IOKIYAR
.
Jake