It’s association with Fascism is overt and self-evident, whereas knives have been internationally used and been around for millennia. They are not the same.

It’s so strange to me that these entry-level JV debate team arguments people use to defend nazis. These arguments are ridiculous and bad, and not in complicated ways. Like I might debate someone on gun control, and that could at least become a complicated conversation about data, legal arguments, and laws of different countries. I might disagree with all those arguments but they would be based on something.

But when people defend Nazis, they’re always these amazingly lazy false equivalences and misunderstandings of the basic structure of arguments, from people who seem to have just discovered the wikipedia page for logical fallacies.