Nazis Everywhere, including in spreadsheets
From www.theatlantic.com:
Nazis Everywhere
As a way of giving back to the community, Goldblog is going to start compiling lists of people who are not Nazis but who have nevertheless been called Nazis in public, as a way of proving the obvious point, which is that people reaching for insults should find something better than Nazi.
After reading “Nazis Everywhere,” a blog post by Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic Monthly (excerpt below), I did a few Google searches to see how many results the names in his article would have when paired with a Nazi-related term. I got a bit carried away and ended up putting the results in a Google spreadsheet (suitably enough). I thought I’d throw together a quick spreadsheet showing the search result count for each name he included when a Nazi-related term is part of the search. It is somehow reassuring that a search for “hitler nazi” still comes out on top of all the others by a wide margin. I used what I deemed to be the most relevant Nazi-related term, and in several uncertain cases, the term that provided the highest number of results. People, groups, and subjects that have a party affiliation are colored accordingly. There are a few charts in separate sheets (see tabs at the bottom) that help compare the results. Far from complete and yes, unscientific!
