gotta love libtarded arguments, it's as if they can't get enough of failure
"thank you sir, may I have another"
Comparing Trump to Hitler Is Worst Kind of Hate Speech
To all those irresponsibly comparing Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler: that is your constitutionally protected right.
To all those comrades on my Facebook feed irresponsibly comparing isolationist Donald Trump to imperialist Adolf Hitler: that is your constitutionally protected right.
However, we have a very important, if unwritten, rule in high-level policy debate: he or she that resorts to a Nazi Germany or Hitler comparison loses the argument. This is because there is nothing that can compare to that diabolical aberration or person. In addition, usually those making the comparison have not done their homework.
These comparisons to Hitler and the Holocaust are grossly irresponsible.
It 's deeply insulting to all those who died in the Holocaust to have their sacrifice cheaply denigrated in this way.
To all those irresponsibly comparing Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler: that is your constitutionally protected right.
To all those comrades on my Facebook feed irresponsibly comparing isolationist Donald Trump to imperialist Adolf Hitler: that is your constitutionally protected right.
However, we have a very important, if unwritten, rule in high-level policy debate: he or she that resorts to a Nazi Germany or Hitler comparison loses the argument. This is because there is nothing that can compare to that diabolical aberration or person. In addition, usually those making the comparison have not done their homework.
These comparisons to Hitler and the Holocaust are grossly irresponsible.
It 's deeply insulting to all those who died in the Holocaust to have their sacrifice cheaply denigrated in this way.
When we apply a Nazi comparison to someone or something that does not fit that comparison, then Nazism and the Holocaust lose their power to shock us. And they must never lose that power. If they do, which is quickly happening right now, when something diabolical does come along again in this world, we have no way to identify it, let alone stop it, because we've cried Nazi wolf so often that the comparison has lost its power to persuade. I fear this rhetorical desensitization has already happened in our delayed responses to atrocities in Syria, Rwanda, Darfur and beyond.
You see, , a Nazi comparison is a kind of inverted hate speech unwittingly directed at all those who died in the Holocaust. So, if you find Mr. Trump's comments a form of hate speech, it behooves you to not ape their very nature with a grotesquely irresponsible rejoinder. Moreover, when you make preposterous comparisons, you actually draw those on the fence closer to the very person you hope to disempower.
ENOUGH WITH THE DONALD TRUMP–ADOLF HITLER COMPARISONS
"DONALD TRUMP IS BAD" AND "DONALD TRUMP IS HITLER" ARE TWO VERY DIFFERENT STATEMENTS. THINK ABOUT THE DIFFERENCE.
by JANE COASTON2/24/2016
Don’t compare Donald Trump, running for the White House in 2016, to Adolf Hitler, responsible for the murder of millions. Don’t whistle past the graves of millions of people in Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, the Eastern Front — human beings who were shot to death and gassed and experimented upon because of one man’s quest for power and the nature of groupthink and evil — because you want to score a point or get a laugh.
"DONALD TRUMP IS BAD" AND "DONALD TRUMP IS HITLER" ARE TWO VERY DIFFERENT STATEMENTS. THINK ABOUT THE DIFFERENCE.
by JANE COASTON2/24/2016
Don’t compare Donald Trump, running for the White House in 2016, to Adolf Hitler, responsible for the murder of millions. Don’t whistle past the graves of millions of people in Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, the Eastern Front — human beings who were shot to death and gassed and experimented upon because of one man’s quest for power and the nature of groupthink and evil — because you want to score a point or get a laugh.
ENOUGH WITH THE DONALD TRUMP–ADOLF HITLER COMPARISONS
"DONALD TRUMP IS BAD" AND "DONALD TRUMP IS HITLER" ARE TWO VERY DIFFERENT STATEMENTS. THINK ABOUT THE DIFFERENCE.
"DONALD TRUMP IS BAD" AND "DONALD TRUMP IS HITLER" ARE TWO VERY DIFFERENT STATEMENTS. THINK ABOUT THE DIFFERENCE.
by JANE COASTON2/24/2016
Donald Trump’s “rise to power” is not like Hitler’s “rise to power,” because Donald Trump isn’t being permitted to set up his own governmental cabinet thanks to deals made with powerful industrialists, and also it’s not freaking 1932.
Donald Trump is not like Adolf Hitler because there is no human, alive or dead, who is like Adolf Hitler, a failed artist, a vegetarian who enjoyed sausage, a bad writer, an animal-rights enthusiast who tested poison on his own dog, and a fucking mass murderer on such a scale that “murderer” doesn’t even seem to adequately describe him.
To bring Donald Trump into this metaphor is to cheapen the lives taken by Hitler’s regime, and the lives lost fighting it, from the Pacific Theater to the shores of Normandy to Treblinka, where a group of incredibly brave concentration camp prisoners fought back against their captors and most died doing it.
Samuel Willenberg survived that revolt, by the way. He was one of 67 men to survive Treblinka, where more than 875,000 people were murdered in one year. He died last week at the age of 93, after spending the last 70 years speaking out against the crimes committed against his country, his family, and his friends by Hitler’s regime.
Hitler’s regime. Not Trump’s.
