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Buckeye_Democrat

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6. Given that antisemitism was in German media for years...

Reply to IsItJustMe (Original post)

Tue Jan 12, 2021, 12:42 PM

Jan 2021

... and silently tolerated before Hitler and the Nazis seized power, I've thought about the similarities even before Trump was President.

I heard local hate-talk radio callers openly declare that all Democrats needed to be killed, with the radio host permitting it with a lame "now, now" response, many years ago. If they had replaced "liberals" and "Democrats" with "Jews", perhaps it would have received more attention because of the greater similarity to pre-Nazi Germany?

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Letters to the Editor: It happened in Germany in the 1930s, and it's happening in America now [View all] IsItJustMe Jan 2021 OP

That's their hope C_U_L8R Jan 2021 #1

Accountability for EVERYONE in that crowd Bluethroughu Jan 2021 #2

This has always stuck with me and how it seems to be happening here. I still can't catbyte Jan 2021 #3

No it is not. This is a handful of dropouts and freaks pwb Jan 2021 #4

I am sure that is exactly what the Germans thought when it first started happening in their country. IsItJustMe Jan 2021 #7

Exactly. They thought it was a small fringe group that would be stopped... CaptainTruth Jan 2021 #9

We are headed down that road.. Permanut Jan 2021 #5

Given that antisemitism was in German media for years... Buckeye_Democrat Jan 2021 #6

There has to be a reckoning with media in this country, appalachiablue Jan 2021 #8