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I have said this before and I'll say it again, I hate the constant way that national socialist fascism is dragged into all sorts of controversial debates to which it bears no comparison. ... Whatever people use the Nazi comparison for, it is never appropriate, because nothing that we know of as evil even comes close.
Couldn't disagree more. Your argument, as I understand it, is that "degree of evil" is the only yard stick by which we can compare X to Nazism. With Nazism there are countless interesting little components and dynamics that each contributed to what eventually happened. As much as I'd like to think otherwise, I don't any of these tendencies have been removed from human kind. The various individual facets of Nazism still lives on and has already re-occured in history several times since WWII ended.
But compared to all these other nasty things, Nazism was so meticulously carried out and well documented that it will continue to the most obvious reference point whenever we discuss shit we don't like.
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I have said this before and I'll say it again, I hate the constant way that national socialist fascism is dragged into all sorts of controversial debates to which it bears no comparison. Ignorantly using it to draw comparisons with Israel is a case in point. What's going on there is effectively a civil war, a very unpleasant one in which people are injured and die and are having their property destroyed, to varying extents on both sides, but Israel is not a fascist dictatorship headed up by a deluded failed artist and political hasardeur filled with neurotic hatred whose actions ended up costing millions of lives.
Whatever people use the Nazi comparison for, it is never appropriate, because nothing that we know of as evil even comes close. Not even Stalin's reign is in the same league, although that in itself was bad enough in its use of forced labour and internment of political opponents, as well as various genocidal famines, e.g. Holodomor or the Soviet famine, with millions of victims. Yes, the Nazis were really that bad.