A: It's almost humorous how those who are so opposed to judging, generalizing, and pigeonholing people are the first to put racialists all into one camp: Nazi-philes.  

Nazi means bad, evil, sinful.  And if someone else is bad then that makes you exempt from having to consider their position (i.e. it must be bad, too).  Therefore, the easiest way to avoid having to come to terms with unpleasant truths is to vilify the person speaking them. Once, heretics like Galileo were imprisoned for their discoveries (or worse burned at the stake) by those who felt it unethical to consider the plausibility of those views.  Today we call them Nazis.  However in some places they can still be thrown in prison.

These names most often come out in debates.  The sad reason that such terms are useful is because the arguer has not the information to debate or dispute the racialist, so he resorts to name-calling in order to gain the upper-hand of the argument.  This is not a repartee of ideas and ideals, it is a dominance tactic to shut-up and shut-down all opposition.  It is pure intimidation designed to bully dissent into silence. 

Also, see the section on name-calling.

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