Jiro comments on Open Thread Feb 29 - March 6, 2016 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Jiro 16 March 2016 10:07:43PM -1 points [-]

Your definition of "Nazi" currently amounts to "supports the parts of the Nazi platform only Nazis support". Now obviously stated this way, it is clearly a circular, hense useless, definition.

That doesn't follow. You can do the comparison of obvious Nazis and obvious non-Nazis to see what the Nazis support, then use the information from that to assess whether the non-obvious cases are nazis.

Comment author: Torchlight_Crimson 17 March 2016 12:02:40AM 2 points [-]

Except then you'd have to use some other criterion to determine the "obvious" cases.

Comment author: Good_Burning_Plastic 17 March 2016 12:48:54AM *  -1 points [-]

I think Otto Wels, Ernst Thälmann and Ludwig Kaas would be the most obvious non-Nazis.