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Originally Posted by Livia

The comparison of the USA with Nazi Germany is an insult to everyone who suffered and died.

Anyone who knows anything about German history, not just WW2/Hitler but the class divides and rising tensions that lead into both WW's, can make clear and distinct comparisons to the current class war (and it is primarily a class war, not a race war) that has been bubbling up in the US (and in slightly different ways, the UK) in recent years. The comparisons are there to be made. Not to the war and Nazi rule itself, but to the socioeconomic conditions that people with other agendas exploited in order to gain positions of power and influence, and encourage the compliance, that made those atrocities possible.

It might be "offensive", but making analytical comparisons of history in order to identify and hopefully swerve the same issues is the whole point of studying history and politics . If people find these topics too personally offensive/uncomfortable to engage with then it's that individuals prerogative to not engage, but to claim that "no one should do it" because some people might overhear and not like what they're hearing? Meh. Unacademic, illogical and damaging thinking.