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In reply to the discussion: NYT covering Hillary Clinton's "deplorables" remark vs NYT covering Donald Trump's "vermin" remark. [View all]LetMyPeopleVote
(152,277 posts)97. How Trump's rhetoric compares with Hitler's
TFG is evidently a big fan of Hitler. The use of Hitler's terminology by TFG was intentional.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/11/13/how-trumps-rhetoric-compares-hitlers/
Trump not only likened his political opponents to vermin but suggested they represent a threat from within that is more dangerous than threats from beyond our borders. Both are themes seized upon by strongmen to foment populist movements.....
Hitler used the construct to justify the extermination of Jews and to attack Marxists, while Trump has used it more broadly to suggest that his opponents are subhuman.
Should I not also have the right to eliminate millions of an inferior race that multiplies like vermin? Hitler said, according to Joachim C. Fests biography.
The rats that poison our body-politic gnaw from the hearts and memories of the broad masses even that little which distress and misery have left, Hitler wrote in Mein Kampf, according a translation published by Project Gutenberg.....
As Hitler historian Max Domarus recalled in his book The Essential Hitler:
Hitler used the construct to justify the extermination of Jews and to attack Marxists, while Trump has used it more broadly to suggest that his opponents are subhuman.
Should I not also have the right to eliminate millions of an inferior race that multiplies like vermin? Hitler said, according to Joachim C. Fests biography.
The rats that poison our body-politic gnaw from the hearts and memories of the broad masses even that little which distress and misery have left, Hitler wrote in Mein Kampf, according a translation published by Project Gutenberg.....
As Hitler historian Max Domarus recalled in his book The Essential Hitler:
Hitlers argument for this monstrous crime was quite simple: Jews, like Russians, were not human. They were animals and beasts. If valuable men had to die each day at the front, then it was really of no consequence if such vermin like the Jews were killed. They were no different from tuberculosis bacilli. If such innocent natural creatures as rabbits and deer had to die, then why should the beasts, who want to bring us Bolshevism, be spared?
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NYT covering Hillary Clinton's "deplorables" remark vs NYT covering Donald Trump's "vermin" remark. [View all]
tenderfoot
Nov 2023
OP
u forgot one thing if it blows up coverup , lie , cheat , steal . distract. go sputter sputt sputt
AllaN01Bear
Nov 2023
#66
If a Democrat pol is speaking and there are no media types listening or paying...
thenelm1
Nov 2023
#77
FWIW, I've lived long enough to agree with you 100% about the NYT. It's always the "Judas" of the 'liberal' media.
keopeli
Nov 2023
#30
As you suggest, the NYT has a history of blindering the reading public, e.g. during the holocaust
PTL_Mancuso
Nov 2023
#67
Oh Yeah, NYT? Why the Hell Don't you Tell Us What "Direction" that ii is and What he said Or
Cha
Nov 2023
#53
And here's the New Republic also calling out Trump's use of the term and pointing out how it's "straight-up Nazi talk."
LetMyPeopleVote
Nov 2023
#52
Twitter is a platform that distributes content, not a content creator like the NYT
Celerity
Nov 2023
#57
The Washington Post has the correct headline while the NYT tries to protect TFG
LetMyPeopleVote
Nov 2023
#48
Jarringly illogical: You blame the DNC for NYT's blatantly biased headlines.
Hermit-The-Prog
Nov 2023
#73
Thank you for the laughs. Laypersons are amusing when they attempt to argue
LetMyPeopleVote
Nov 2023
#90
If this is how you operate in the "real world", I would be curious what world that is.
NCIndie
Nov 2023
#92
Both headlines appear accurate to me. Are we suggesting the Times should have reported that the DNC "pounced" on
Martin68
Nov 2023
#21
The Washington Post makes the original header at the New York Times sound almost surreal
LetMyPeopleVote
Nov 2023
#42
Trump calls political enemies 'vermin,' echoing dictators Hitler, Mussolini
LetMyPeopleVote
Nov 2023
#49
"Vermin". That is one of the same words that Hitler used against the Jews...
DemocraticPatriot
Nov 2023
#50