Against Normalization: The Lesson of the "Munich Post"

[no_hypocrisy]

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/normalization-lesson-munich-post/

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But after the election, things changed. Now Trump and his minions are in the driver’s seat, attempting to pose as respectable participants in American politics, when their views come out of a playbook written in German. Now is the time for a much closer inspection of the tactics and strategy that brought off this spectacular distortion of American values.

What I want to suggest is an actual comparison with Hitler that deserves thought. It’s what you might call the secret technique, a kind of rhetorical control that both Hitler and Trump used on their opponents, especially the media. And they’re not joking. If you’d received the threatening words and pictures I did during the campaign (one Tweet simply read “I gas Jews”), as did so many Jewish reporters and people of color, the sick bloodthirsty lust to terrify is unmistakably sincere. The playbook is Mein Kampf.

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What caused his defeat? Some have suggested (myself among them) it was Hitler’s fateful decision to detach his elite private militia, the forerunner of the SS — the Stosstrupp Hitler — and send them on a mission to trash and pillage the offices of the Munich Post, the newspaper he called “the poison kitchen” (for the slanders about him they were allegedly cooking up).

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The Munich Post never stopped investigating who Hitler was and what he wanted, and Hitler never stopped hating them for it.

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UPDATE -- Need more proof ? ? ?

Donald Trump Jr. makes 'gas chamber' reference in criticizing media

http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/15/politics/donald-trump-jr-gas-chamber/index.html

[uponit7771]

1. +1, "and just used the Jew-hatred to advance his cause with the nitwit thug segment"

[Wounded Bear]

2. The more we know about history, the better armed we are against the future...nt

[jmg257]

3. Using the gas chamber to 'death penalty' repubs is like pillaging the Munich Post?

Not getting the connection on this one.

[no_hypocrisy]

4. Comparisons:

What I want to suggest is an actual comparison with Hitler that deserves thought. It’s what you might call the secret technique, a kind of rhetorical control that both Hitler and Trump used on their opponents, especially the media. And they’re not joking. If you’d received the threatening words and pictures I did during the campaign (one Tweet simply read “I gas Jews”), as did so many Jewish reporters and people of color, the sick bloodthirsty lust to terrify is unmistakably sincere. The playbook is Mein Kampf.

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/normalization-lesson-munich-post/


Donald Trump Jr. makes 'gas chamber' reference in criticizing media

http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/15/politics/donald-trump-jr-gas-chamber/index.html