The Nazi Defense

I think that nowadays, one of the most common and annoying things that a person in an argument can do is pull the Nazi card out of their sleeve. It has become much to popular of a defense to just call someone a Nazi whenever you feel threatened. When I think of this a certain news station, FOX, comes to mind as they have garnered a reputation for doing this. Most recently, FOX News chief Roger Ailes called NPR executives Nazis for terminating the contract of a news analyst, Juan Williams. This defense is not a good one because it really draws the attention away from the problem at hand and almost completely removes the opportunity for a reasonable and rational argument. Not only this, but almost all of the time, the action that calls people to relate a group to Nazis really is not nearly as bad or could even be compared to the atrocities that were committed by the Nazis.