<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by thadocta:
* * * I note an increasing propensity for some moderators to decide that posts do not belong in "their forums" and to arbitrarily close the thread and/or move it elsewhere.
FT "used" to be a fun and informative place to be, now there a bunch of little "XXXXXX" running around. patron seems to be one of them.
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"Little Hitler" is an appropriate phrase to apply to people who advocate killing others (or in fact do it) because of their race or religion. In my view you could reasonably call Idi Amin or Saddam Hussein a "little Hitler."
"Little Hitler" is not an appropriate phrase to apply to people whose editing styles you don't like because it doesn't have anything to do with what you're trying to complain about. Try "little Frank Pixley" (one of Ambrose Bierce's editors) instead.
The reason that "little Hitler" is offensive to me is that it trivializes what the real Hitler did and wanted to do, which included wanting to gather up and kill Law Lord Sr.'s cousins. Save the big insults for big offenses.