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Old 07-03-2016, 09:05 AM #1
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Default Comparing Trump to Hitler Is Worst Kind of Hate Speech

"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."

"he or she that resorts to a Nazi Germany or Hitler comparison loses the argument. "


"You see, for me, 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."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-...b_9334668.html



Excellent article and hopefully a read of it will put an end to the frankly silly and disrespectful comparisons?


Thoughts?

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