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Originally Posted by Oliver_W
yeah but Trump is #LiterallyHitler and detaining people in (physical) safety who are trying to break into another country is exactly the same as rounding up citizens and placing them in death camps.
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This is the sort of excuse making that allows the latter to develop, though. If you actually take a look at history, nobody just suddenly springs up committing the worst atrocities. Things start small, and seemingly justifiable, and people let it slide. And then they escalate a little, and people let it slide. And then kids and their parents are separated, but people let it slide. Small, creeping changes. The slow, but continuous, removal of little rights and freedoms so that no individual change "seems all that big or bad". Until one day people look at the bigger picture and realise that it's ****ed up.
People are quick to make Nazi analogies, yes, that's true. But the REALLY important part of the rise of Nazi Germany and WWII is that
the German people who supported that government, and fought in its armies, were not "evil" people. The German army wasn't a horde of monsters. It was just an army. They weren't funded, fed and equipped by cackling goblins in caves... the German civilians were just... people. Who fell for a tonne of propaganda hook, line and sinker.