&gt; Not meant to offend (didn&#x27;t even knew the parent was German at the time, thought I was an American), but it wasn&#x27;t an gratuitous reference either. It&#x27;s not like someone in an internet forum calling someone a &quot;nazi&quot; because they disagree with them or anything.<p>The comment you took your quote from already mentioned that I&#x27;m German.<p>That&#x27;s alright though. I&#x27;m not &quot;offended&quot; by the Nazi comparison because of my German heritage. I just wanted to highlight what I perceived to be needless hyperbole that inevitably derails the discussion about the idea at hand by way of Godwin&#x27;s Law.<p>&gt; I legitimately believe that there are plenty of legitimate lessons to be learned (to avoid, of course) from the Nazis, as WWII and the Holocaust is the single most deadly and morally disastrous event of the modern era.<p>Agreed.<p>&gt; And these kind of schemes for &quot;one global government&quot; &#x2F; &quot;one common language&quot; etc, do have parallels and historical precedents on ideas such that of the Third Reich. An occupied, German speaking Europe, if not world, was indeed one of their stated goals.<p>Your argument is basically: &quot;The Nazis did X, hence we should never do X - for all X&quot;. I think this is a fallacy. There has to be difference between subduing Europe&#x2F;the world and proposing to standardize language as a tool of communication for greater peace and more collaboration. I don&#x27;t think choosing a standard language is any more sinister than choosing standard units of measurement or base 10 numbers.