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I think it's kind of offensive to refer to a product decision by a website as Anschluss; both because it implies Google's leadership are the Nazis, and because
by rdl 13y ago
I think it's kind of offensive to refer to a product decision by a website as Anschluss; both because it implies Google's leadership are the Nazis, and because it trivializes the actual German/Austrian union (and thus beginning of WW2).
Marginally more offensive than the "co-prosperity sphere" thing pinboardguy did.
- davidgerard 13y agoYeah, Godwination isn't stylish. The analogy is inaccurate too. But that's what the pissed-off people are calling it, and that was the title of the post.
- ExpiredLink 13y agoBTW, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anschluss http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anschluss
- AndiS 13y agoTo be clear, that wasn't my term (it was the title of a link that I reposted), but I agree with you -- I'd have personally chosen something with less of the weight of history and atrocity behind it.