If you have recently compared what's going on in America to Nazis, the Khmer Rouge, Darth Vader, whatever, please take a moment to recalibrate. In 1967, we had 100,000 people storm the Pentagon and riots in a dozen American cities. Political bombings were routine in the 1970's.
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The challenge for the American left is how to turn callous, inhuman provocation (like the treatment of families at the border) into something that harms Trump instead of helping him. Losing the election will really harm Trump, so how do we get there? How do we persuade people?
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Regardless of if you agree with the holocaust etc analogies the fact of the matter is the government is setting up the machinery for what becomes genocide. Whether they plan on using it or not is NOT the issue. We must end even the possibility
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When the Nazis had recently come to power, half the country was happy with the Nazis coming to power, and the political drama was concentrated in a very few targeted places, wasn't it? I mean it wasn't for several years that they started invading, and they never reached Yemen
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This parallel is not even wrong, and I think you know this. It's more of a perpendicular than a parallel.
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Half the country is happy because they're ignorant. Hyperbole cuts through the noise and brings awareness, outrage is how you motivate people to get their asses in the voting booth. Anger, when focused on a goal, gets shit done.
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I understand being uncomfortable with the outrage. People aren't being literally gassed but they are being separated, their personal effects confiscated, medicated, and tortured physically and mentally. The parallels are real the difference is genocide vs. normalizing prejudice.
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It's not about hyperbole. It's about hyperbolic *metaphors.* Maybe the solution is just to talk about what's happening, without analogizing it to anything else. What's happening to migrant children isn't "like" the Holocaust. It's bad, for its own unique reasons.
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