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WarGamer

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10. FYI... the ADL think this kind of stuff is inappropriate.
Wed Oct 25, 2023, 11:01 PM
Oct 2023
https://www.adl.org/resources/news/inappropriate-comparisons-trivialize-holocaust

Another growing threat to the memory of the Six Million is when the Holocaust becomes grist for inappropriate Nazi and/or Hitler comparisons. Particularly in the United States, Holocaust trivialization has seeped into the mainstream.

It has become the political weapon of choice to roll out the Nazi and Hitler analogies. Take the debate in America over gun control legislation. In the past year we have seen a proliferation of remarks comparing gun control legislation in the U.S. to policies upheld by Nazi Germany during the Holocaust.

National pundits and others inside and outside of politics have compared the issue of gun control in the U.S. to actions taken by the Nazi regime. Earlier this month, for instance, rock musician and gun advocate Ted Nugent compared film producer Harvey Weinstein to a Nazi propagandist, staging that those who watch Weinstein's planned film about the National Rifle Association "will see that Joseph Goebbels and Saul Alinsky is alive in the form of a fat punk named Harvey Weinstein."


My own notes... no, MAGAT's are not NAZIS. They're a segment of a political party, no different than the German AFD or the Hungarian FIDESZ.

Reading a little history might help.

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