It offends me on several levels. It is used to insult people by inferring that they are intolerant, dogmatic and willing to promote their ideas by any means. The people who wield the word mean it to offend, but I feel like they are doing a disservice to those who have suffered under Hitler and the true Nazis. Hitler is also a name bandied about quite a bit--if someone doesn't like what a political leader is doing, he/she might be compared to Hitler.
So I resent the fact that these terms have undergone this sort of linguistic adaptation so soon after they came into being. I mean, it's one thing to call someone a Geghis Khan or an Attila the Hun; they just don't carry the same emotional weight, even though the speaker may mean them as slurs. To call someone a Nazi, however, makes light of what the true Nazis did and is an insult to those who survived the Holocaust.
What also offends me is that even if you don't mean to literally compare someone to a Nazi, but just use the word to mean intolerant of other ideas, the person using the word is the one who is guilty of this. When I've heard the term used, it is by people going on the offensive without any attempt to understand what they are criticizing. It really bugs me when someone who has never been to LLL and knows nothing about the group uses the breastfeeding Nazi term in regards to that group. LLL is there to help people, not to hurt them, and leaders will give information about weaning regardless of whether they think the mother should be doing it or not. Leaders have to volunteer a lot of time and effort, yet they get attacked just for trying to help those who come to them for help. It's ridiculous. Sorry to get off on a tangent, it's just I've heard the Nazi thing said about LLL.
So I resent the fact that these terms have undergone this sort of linguistic adaptation so soon after they came into being. I mean, it's one thing to call someone a Geghis Khan or an Attila the Hun; they just don't carry the same emotional weight, even though the speaker may mean them as slurs. To call someone a Nazi, however, makes light of what the true Nazis did and is an insult to those who survived the Holocaust.
What also offends me is that even if you don't mean to literally compare someone to a Nazi, but just use the word to mean intolerant of other ideas, the person using the word is the one who is guilty of this. When I've heard the term used, it is by people going on the offensive without any attempt to understand what they are criticizing. It really bugs me when someone who has never been to LLL and knows nothing about the group uses the breastfeeding Nazi term in regards to that group. LLL is there to help people, not to hurt them, and leaders will give information about weaning regardless of whether they think the mother should be doing it or not. Leaders have to volunteer a lot of time and effort, yet they get attacked just for trying to help those who come to them for help. It's ridiculous. Sorry to get off on a tangent, it's just I've heard the Nazi thing said about LLL.
Oh, and doctors get no BF training from what I have seen! Lots of times, their entire education on it is courtesy of their wife or personal experience. Also, I wuld not expect a surgeon to know squat about it--they really do not cover it at all. Maybe breast augmentation, but not lactation, LOL. 
