Rapists anyone? Murderers, rapists, human traffickers, is that not dehumanizing the "others?"
"That's only in the Panhandle you can get away with that statement," the President then said with a smile, with the crowd erupting into laughter. "Only in the Panhandle!" |
Still nor close to Hitler, people are so, so stupid. It is like a never ending parade of who is more like Hitler.
However, racism should not be discounted and is on the rise in Europe and the US. Everyone in Europe is going back to hating everyone else, sadly I see this here too. https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/246116/croatia-rewrite-holocaust-crimes-out-of-history https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/04/17/theres-one-far-right-movement-that-hates-the-kremlin-azov-ukraine-biletsky-nouvelle-droite-venner/ |
Why is this opinion of a relative of a Holocaust survivor more valid than the dozens of opinions from actual Holocaust survivors posted earlier? |
Here are polls of churchgoing Trump voters on their opinions of Muslims in 2016 versus 2017. Trump’s demonizing propaganda is working. |
Do you don’t see any similarities at all? https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/10/25/suffocation-of-democracy/ |
Back in the golden age of the Internet there was a rule called "Godwin's Law." I guess it has gone by the wayside along with the general civility and level of discourse that used to characterize on-line discussions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law |
I said not close, not that I don't see similarities. I post often that people need to be more worried about denying people to testify, hiding documents, censoring media. I post that GOP is corrupt at every level. However, it is dangerous to compare megalomaniacs, fascist, etc. No two are alike. I think you are still calling US government a government, not a regime, if it continues on this path, it is a regime. Mind you, I am not sure why it was not a regime. Regime is a word used to put down other countries that are not democratic and capitalist, no? Yet, US is ruled by big lobbies and business, that has now decided to use the lowest denominator that works to subdue progress, nationalism and racism. Why, it is easy, and it works. |
It's equally valid. And quite convincing. "These Nazi or Hitler references are inappropriate because their hyperbolic nature cheapens the memory of the actual horrors that millions of people including six million Jews (1.5 million of them were children). From a journalistic point of view, the exaggeration is a sign of disrespect for their audience. Perhaps they feel their readers or viewers are not intelligent enough to understand their prose unless their narratives are blown way out of proportion, or maybe they just lack the semantic agility to craft the appropriate prose to interest and inform their audience." |
that and the newsweek article posted earlier should be read by everyone.
But, fine - ignore them and call them shallow. Don't get mad when we say "told you so" as we go further down into the darkness |
Just FYI https://gizmodo.com/godwin-of-godwins-law-by-all-means-compare-these-shi-1797807646 |
You're posting from liberal sites. If I were to post from a conservative site showing how liberals are enacting Nazi tactics to delegitimize anyone who disagrees with me, you'd be attacking the source. |
This thread is about the similarities. There are some striking ones. No one is calling him a clone of Hitler. Just pointing out similarities. |
When cabinet secretaries flagrantly ignore the law and the highest attorney in the land willfully misleads the public, we move much closer to a regime than a republic. That is just last week. |
forget it - I just can't. It isn't worth trying to have an actual discussion about this. If you won't even read the articles we suggest that were written by historians and actual survivors... |
All I can say is that I'm glad my grandfather isn't around to hear people likening Trump to Hitler. I remember in the 70's there was a miniseries on the Holocaust (it's where Meryl Streep debuted, I believe), and he could not even watch it. He would sit in the dining room, while we all sat in the rec room, angry that the series was pretending to depict the horrors of Nazi Germany. He said that it was doing a disservice by falsely showing "bad stuff" when, in truth, the real event was 100x more horrific. He said it gave people a false impression that it was bad....real bad.....but not a hell on earth. I shudder to think what he'd say with all these liberal idiots claiming that detention facilities - air-conditioned, 3 squares a day, classes for the kids, toys, medical attention, etc. - are like concentration camps.
You people need to cut this crap out. Trump is nothing like Hitler, and this stuff about the "brown people" is a bunch of Pablum. It's just a tired old political ploy to scare the liberal base into getting to the polls. Remember Biden's "they're going to put y'all back in chains"?" JFC. |