Before you throw out the next Nazi, Hitler, Goebbels slur...

Let me start by first saying Hello to everyone. Long time DU reader, longer time Political enthusiast and debater.

Trump is a Nazi. Stephen Miller is Goebbels, Barr is Himmler, Wolf is Reinhard Heydrich and Ivanka is Leni Riefenstahl.

Right?

IMHO, it does a great disservice to History and the victims of ACTUAL Nazism to conflate villains and political opponents to historical figures.

I could start by asking you to research what ACTUAL REAL Nazis actually DID but that's probably not fruitful. So let's try this.

Edna S. Frieberg know more about Nazis than I or any of you. She's a historian at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, she's a fellow at the Jewish Theological Seminary and I hesitate to call her a "friend" but I'll just say an "acquaintance".through our shared interests and social/educational functions.

Give this a read and then think the next time before you call someone a NAZI or Storm Trooper.

https://www.ushmm.org/information/press/press-releases/why-holocaust-analogies-are-dangerous

"The Holocaust has become shorthand for good vs. evil; it is the epithet to end all epithets. And the current environment of rapid fire online communication and viral memes lends itself particularly well to this sort of sloppy analogizing. Worse, it allows it to spread more widely and quickly."

"Neither the political right nor left has a monopoly on exploiting the six million Jews murdered in a state-sponsored, systematic campaign of genocide to demonize or intimidate their political opponents."

"Perhaps most popular this year have been accusations of “Nazism” and “fascism” against federal authorities for their treatment of children separated from their parents at the US border with Mexico. “Remember, other governments put kids in camps,” is a typical rallying cry from some immigration advocates. Even a person as well versed in the tenuous balance between national security and compassion, the former head of the CIA, took to Twitter to criticize federal policies toward illegal migrants using a black and white photo of the iconic train tracks leading the Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center. Nazi comparisons have also been leveled against the federal government in connection with a travel ban on individuals from predominantly Muslim countries. Animal rights proponents have consistently decried what they call “the Holocaust on your plate” in critiquing today’s meat industry. The list goes on."





Be a better debater... give it a thought, ok?

thx.