Yes, You Should Be Comparing Trump to Hitler

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REAVERFAN

Wednesday, June 20, 2018 2:06 AM

https://forward.com/opinion/403515/yes-you-should-be-comparing-trump-t
o-hitler/

We want to believe that the Nazis were a special, exceptional kind of evil, because it’s easier for us. But the reality is that their brutality was just another manifestation of humanity’s worst flaws: our fear of the Other, the unthinking cruelty we unleash upon each other as soon as society gives us license. Those flaws are on full display at our southern border today, and we must recognize that if we are to break the cycle.

Like many Ashkenazi Jews, my ancestors came from the far western reaches of Imperial Russia, the region known as the Pale of Settlement. It wasn’t by choice that they settled there: Catherine the Great banished the Jews to that slice of the empire’s frontier after merchants in Moscow complained that their Jewish competitors were stealing away business with their “well-known fraud and lies.” Things got worse in the 1880s with the enactment of the May Laws, which barred Jews from participating in the financial system and doing business on certain days, and capped the percentage of Jewish students allowed in schools.

If that sounds familiar, it’s because Adolf Hitler followed that same playbook in 1935, denying Jews citizenship, barring their access to certain professions and eventually herding them into ghettos. Bit by bit, he transformed us into the Other: corrupting, poisonous, a danger by our very existence.

To miss the parallels in what our government is doing today, you would have to be blind. It’s there in the way that Donald Trump [url= https://www.vox.com/2018/5/16/17362870/trump-immigrants-animals-ms-13-
illegal]invokes the boogeyman of MS-13[/url] to justify the imprisonment of children too young to tie their shoes. It’s there in the stories of detainees who have no idea where Homeland Security has taken their children, and have no way of finding out.

Yes, our government is only rounding up human beings, not executing them or burying them in mass graves. But the roots of that evil are there — they have, to an extent, always been there. Does it need to flower into something truly monstrous before we recognize it for what it really is? Hitler also did things by degrees, nipping away at freedoms and piling one small indignity on top of another. That has been the strategy of the Trump administration: first racial insults, then stepped-up enforcement, then the wall, then the cage.

BRENDA

Wednesday, June 20, 2018 2:31 AM

Agree completely Reaverfan.

WHOZIT

Wednesday, June 20, 2018 4:04 AM

When Obama was doing this we heard nothing about it, please go and get new talking points from the Democrats who want use this for an issue for the 2018 elections.

REAVERFAN

Wednesday, June 20, 2018 6:10 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by whozit:
When Obama was doing this we heard nothing about it, please go and get new talking points from the Democrats who want use this for an issue for the 2018 elections.

But, Obama wasn't doing it, so there's that. Please stop lying.

http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2018/jun/19/matt-schla
pp/no-donald-trumps-separation-immigrant-families-was/

6IXSTRINGJACK

Wednesday, June 20, 2018 9:53 AM

How many virtue signalling Democrats share the same sentiment while employing slave labor by paying illegals less than minimum wage under the table?

I wonder.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Wednesday, June 20, 2018 12:10 PM

So this is the Nazi Democrats calling Trump a Hitler? The Democrat Nazis consider Trump their leader? This is so confusing.

6IXSTRINGJACK

Wednesday, June 20, 2018 1:38 PM

When they're not busy calling anybody who isn't a Democrat a Nazi, they call them Commies.

Great arguments they have there.

Dealing with braindead children here.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

REAVERFAN

Wednesday, June 20, 2018 4:35 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
How many virtue signalling Democrats share the same sentiment while employing slave labor by paying illegals less than minimum wage under the table?

I wonder.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

I'm sure you'll find they're all Republicans.

REAVERFAN

Wednesday, June 20, 2018 4:36 PM

“In my work with the defendants (at the Nuremberg Trails 1945-1949) I was searching for the nature of evil and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants, a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”

Captain G. M. Gilbert, the Army psychologist assigned to watching the defendants at the Nuremberg trails

REAVERFAN

Wednesday, June 20, 2018 7:13 PM

4. DEHUMANIZATION: One group denies the humanity of the other group. Members of it are equated with animals, vermin, insects or diseases. Dehumanization overcomes the normal human revulsion against murder. At this stage, hate propaganda in print and on hate radios is used to vilify the victim group. The majority group is taught to regard the other group as less than human, and even alien to their society. They are indoctrinated to believe that “We are better off without them.” The powerless group can become so depersonalized that they are actually given numbers rather than names, as Jews were in the death camps. They are equated with filth, impurity, and immorality. Hate speech fills the propaganda of official radio, newspapers, and speeches.

http://genocidewatch.net/genocide-2/8-stages-of-genocide/

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