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I don't think you should let Nazi's win the war of language.
Agreed, I think the author's feeling towards this is commendable in spirit, but to let a generic phrase be forever attached to a political movement in any setting is a bit much, even if it's infamously memorable, it doesn't belong to Nazis.
Still, it's just a name change, so, aside from a few lines of code to change, it doesn't badly affect anyone. All power to the author
It's not a big deal to change the name, and it masks actual Nazi use of the language.
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BTW this is a prolonged 'Aha moment', not a typesetting symbolism of laughter.
It's case-by-case. Fascists are going to invade and appropriate every shred of culture they can find. But some of their choice culture is so toxic that they will own it for a long time. "Final Solution" and "Concentration Camp". But others like "living space" are probably not forever nazi.
"Living space", like? Displacing other peoples to provide an ideal amount of population density to your own people is still not OK. Or it should be anyway.