FemiNazi!

We're back in business, after last week's discharge of Rebuttals, William Easterly's Tyranny of Experts (Review available shortly) and a few days contemplating the fate of Jan Palach, in Prague. 

Today's accusation is a severe one - one might even call it absurd. But, as Deidre McCloskey often repeats, do hear me out. Consider that I might have a point. FemiNazi.

In my country, there's been a major feminist revolution over the last decade, intensified in the last few years. This, in a nation where gender equality has reached further than perhaps anywhere else. One, particularly awful accusation laid against these proclaiming feminists are the combination of their ideologi with Hitler's, to form the FemiNazi - allegedly it's just a word to describe a radical feminist.

That's of course absurd. But hear me out (though I have to pay homeage to my sister for unconciously pointing this out).

Feminists, quite understandably, don't like views as the ones below.

It consolidates the idea that women's value lies in the beauty and sexiness of their bodies. It's repulsive. It confines the idea that females are for sale, alluding to arranged marriages, prostitution or trafficking. So Feminists want to ban such commercial activities. Ok, sure.

Now, let me elaborate the comparison to Hitler.

Feminists don't like images as the one above - they don't like women being exploited, as they see it. Thus, they'd want to ban it. Whatever is wrong or harms the project of Gender Equality is to be taken away, banned. Punished. Eradicated.

Nazis in the Third Reich didn't like Jews. They believed Jews to be the lowest of the low, filthy and strain on Humanity. Thus, they wanted to ban them. Punish them. Eradicate them.

Here's the similarity that justifies the label 'FemiNazi'; The will to ban, use State Violence to punish and eventually eradicate whatever you find repulsive. It's not the magnitude of the crime here, as obviously murder millions of Jewish people is a far worse action than banning sexist commercial. The point is the will to ban what you don't like. The will to hinder other people from expressing ideas, from trading or even from outright living.

The will to HINDER other people, essentially. This is always and everywhere a moral statement saying: "I know better than you, what's good for you", "My moral is preferable to yours".

Regardless the circumstances, that's a horrible stance, quite justifiably attaining the epithet 'Nazi'.
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Disclaimer: The argument can be made for most things socialists, statists or State-embracing liberals do; they all rely on the state to forcefully remove what they dislike, meaning the epithet "Nazi" might be applicable even to them.