Adolf Hitler also published a list of crimes committed by groups he didnt like

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By Amanda Erickson at the Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/03/02/adolf-hitler-also-published-a-list-of-crimes-committed-by-groups-he-didnt-like/?utm_term=.b99e7ec6adb0

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The program is controversial (when Trump referenced it Tuesday, Democrats groaned). There's no evidence that immigrants commit crimes at a higher rate than native-born Americans, and critics worry the reports will skew public opinion unfairly. “Let's be clear about what Donald Trump is doing,” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) wrote on Facebook. “He is stirring up fear and hatred against immigrants and trying to divide our nation.”

There's a reason Trump's opponents are so worried. This strategy — one designed to single out a particular group of people, suggesting that there's something particularly sinister about how they behave — was employed to great effect by Adolf Hitler and his allies. In the 1930s, the Nazis used a similar tactic to stir up anger and hatred toward Jews. Professor Richard Weikart of California State University explained that Nazi leaders used different kinds of communication tools to sell the message that “Jews are criminal by disposition,” as a 1943 Nazi directive to the German press put it. “The Jews are not a nation like other nations but bearers of hereditary criminality,” the order said. Germany, in other words, was out of control, and only Nazi anti-Semitic policies could “restore order.”

To spread these ideas, there were books (like the pamphlet pictured above) and films that portrayed Jews as subhuman. “The Eternal Jew,” released in 1940, depicted Jews as wandering cultural parasites, consumed by sex and money. Newspapers such as Der Stürmer printed anti-Semitic cartoons regularly. “By the late 1930s, the increasingly fanatical tone of Nazi propaganda reflected the growing radicalization of the regime's anti-Semitic policies,” the BBC explained. “The Jewish stereotypes shown in such propaganda served to reinforce anxieties about modern developments in political and economic life, without bothering to question the reality of the Jewish role in German society.”

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Even art exhibits reinforced this message. In 1937, “The Eternal Jew” exhibition opened in Munich. Its stated purpose was to show “the 'typical outward features' of Jews and to demonstrate their allegedly Middle Eastern and Asiatic characteristics,” the BBC said. “The exhibition also attempted to 'expose' a worldwide 'Jewish-Bolshevik' conspiracy.” More than 5,000 people visited every day. Secret Police reports suggested (proudly) that the show led to a sharp rise in anti-Semitic feelings and even violence.


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[Charles Bukowski]

1. Such a presidential moment! Amirite, Van Jones?

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3. Jones is using his gut quite a bit in his punditry.

You have neurons in your gut. Most often he is right on and ahead of the curve. Sometimes his gut steers him wrong. I prefer someone who is using all their humanity to suss things out in times like these. Even if they are not perfect.

[Charles Bukowski]

4. I think Van Jones overreacted to a speech that

only seems above-average because the dumbest, least eloquent politician alive delivered it. If that had been anyone else (yes, even GWB), people would be wondering aloud if the President had too much to drink prior to taking the stage.

Van Jones ignored the many hateful aspects of Trump's speech (like VOICE) while effectively telling millions of viewers that Trump knocked it out of the park. That doesn't sit well with me at all.

I wish Van Jones's gut would tell him to hold Trump to the standards of past Presidents, like the great man who just completed two terms as our leader. Perhaps he wouldn't get so teary-eyed over a Trump speech that a good high school student would have been embarrassed to deliver.

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5. Sometimes, when assessing people who are

dark like Trump, a feeling of relief gets mistaken for something else. I've done it. It is an old trick of those who deal in the dark arts. Jones fell for it. Many do.

[KittyWampus]

2. A Civil Rights group should keep a list of crimes committed in Trump's name.