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Comment author: [deleted] 24 October 2012 08:17:07PM 4 points [-]

salt the surrounding memetic ground within a 200 mile radius?

For some reason that didn't touch smoking bans.

Comment author: TimS 24 October 2012 08:30:00PM 3 points [-]

Lack of knowledge among the opinion makers of today vs. not a central theme of Nazi thought

Hard to tell which is more important to explaining your observation - I lean towards the latter, but couldn't explain why in any formal way. Vegetarianism seems to have performed a similar memetic escape.

Comment author: [deleted] 24 October 2012 10:24:20PM 0 points [-]

Well, vegetarianism was a 'quirk' (I'd like a synonym without negative connotations but I can't think of one right now) of Hitler himself which AFAIK he didn't try to enforce on anyone else, so I don't think it counts.

Comment author: Nornagest 25 October 2012 01:41:49AM *  0 points [-]

I'd like a synonym without negative connotations but I can't think of one right now

Idiosyncrasy? Affectation? Notion?

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