I work at a holocaust museum and I don’t think its in bad taste. I give tours and one of the big messages on my tour is being aware of the past and the events that let the holocaust happen so that it doesn’t happen again. So far, Trump is ticking a lot of the Hitler’s-Rise-to-Power boxes and we definitely should be…

I don’t think it was in bad taste at all. Trump has consistently been compared to Hitler for a while now, and if putting into context helps some people finally “get” it then so be it. Honestly , I don’t think it’ll affect most people though

Plan Aleph includes a nosh, I assume?

First and last time I ever voted Republican: Bill Weld and Paul Cellucci for Governor and Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts in ‘90.

I think if more people understood how the Nazi party rose to power they’d be a lot more concerned with Trump’s statements. In school, it always came across that WWI ended and things were fine until...BAM! Nazis everywhere and they’re exterminating the Jews. It isn’t something a lot of Americans learn that the rise was…

Jew here. Agreed. We know this shit. This is the same fucking rhetoric. Trump’s father is a klansman. He is being endorsed - and has accepted the endorsement of - white supremacists. Let’s not pretend this is a gross exaggeration anymore.

“You know Obamacare is really I think the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery. And it is in a way, it is slavery in a way, because it is making all of us subservient to the government, and it was never about health care. It was about control.”

I had the honor of speaking with some Holocaust survivors when I was an undergrad and I remember the rhetoric they told us that was used against them, and other Jews, is almost exactly the same that Trump uses now.

I wish I could say it was, however see angry yelling lady above.

May her memory be a blessing.

I’m not jewish, yet I can easily see the parallels to the holocaust in trumps rhetoric. You’ve got anger and vitriol being directed at a specific group. As if they are a collective instead of individuals. The troubles of the country are being blamed on them. The “solution” being given is to “remove” them from the…

My grandmother, who was British, was able to get her mother-in-law and her husband out of Germany in 1938, basically by being the angry lady who yells at everyone (which she was when I was a kid too), but she witnessed Kristallnacht as both a Jew and an outsider to Germany and she knew what was to come. If she was…

I agree. And i think its to our detriment that people are afraid to liken things like Trumps insane immigration policy to the beginnings of genocide. Sure, no one wants to be THAT guy comparing shot to slavery, but when it all starts looking like slavery, someone has to speak up.

Bullshit. I am a Jew and this rhetoric is literally straight from the fachist text book.

Strongly agree! It seems that people remember the Holocaust(images of death camps, stories of survivors) but not enough about how it came to fruition which is absolutely crucial to never letting it happen again.

My father, who is a survivor and lost most of his family in Auschwitz, has been saying that for months. That the way Trump is phrasing it and the way some people are frothing at the mouth supporting it sounds eerily like Hitler’s rhetoric and what set Germany on the path to the Holocaust.

Really don’t think it’s in bad taste, because for once the Nazi reference fits the bill.

I don’t think it’s even in bad taste. Putting the holocaust on some kind of “nothing will ever be that bad again” pedestal only serves to ensure that we won’t notice until after something is that bad again because all apt comparisons were considered to be “bad taste”.

The fact that Kristallnacht needs to be defined twice in this article is kinda proof enough that people have NO FUCKING CLUE how horrible shit got and how Hitler got started. So no, the language isn’t too strong. Trump is a fucking Nazi.

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