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Meg Whitman compares Trump to Hitler
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Haven't you read about that happening during his rallies this year?
Really? I thought the parallels were obvious.
YmirGF
Bodhisattva in Recovery
I hardly think that "The Art of the Deal" is similar to "Mein Kampf".
Hell, I may as well say it...
I'm not a fan of Donald Trump. Please understand that.
However, I am beginning to think that he is just what is needed to shake up the world and the world of politics. Oddly, I can see him getting along just fine with the leaders of China and Russia. It might be interesting to have someone take out the double-talk from "diplomacy" and tell things like they are. Hillary sure aint gonna do it. Bernie might though. I think we can rely on Trump saying whatever is passing though his brain at any given moment....
In some ways, Bernie and Trump represent the same dissatisfaction with the status quo... albeit from different vantage points.
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Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
You mean Trump's security guards?
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Wonder who started it?
Yep.
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Where are the free speech zones? Looks like his security detail were not the instigators. They just responded.
Donald Trump is no Hitler. Nobody is like Hitler. Hitler attempted genocide and murdered one third of all Jews. He murdered and was responsible for tens of millions of other deaths.
Comparisons to Hitler are unwarranted and show desperation on the part of those making such allegations. They are hurtful and insulting to the memories of Hitlers victims. They mock the survivors of Hitler's infamous crimes.
Comparisons to Hitler are unwarranted and show desperation on the part of those making such allegations. They are hurtful and insulting to the memories of Hitlers victims. They mock the survivors of Hitler's infamous crimes.
Just comparisons are necessary to learn from the past. One way to get another Hitler is to forbid comparisons.
The parallels are obvious!
- They're both books.
- They're both in the writer's native language.
- Both are short on pictures.
- Both use words to say things.
But Trump isn't alone.
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There isn't a perfect match to the timeline. In some respects, we're pre-1921 (when Hitler was elected leader of the Nazi party) and in other respects we're in 1932 (when Hitler ran for the German Presidency).
When I say that I see parallels, what I mean is that when I think about everything that Hitler did after 1933 and look to see how it was foreshadowed in how Hitler presented himself before he took power, I see characteristics that are very similar to how Trump is presenting himself today.
metis
aged ecumenical anthropologist
I agree with you on that, but what I will say is that the NAZI tactics of stereotyping, labeling, and then demeaning various groups as being "not true Germans" is all too similar to what Trump has been doing here using a similar process, and Fox and other right-wing sources have helped to created this mess. It was entertaining to the masses, as it is here now, but we well know what happened next in Germany.
By chance, have you ever read copies of Der Sturmer?
Only select portions when quoted in other works.
And both of those quotes aren't far off that famous JFK quote ("My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country").The parallels are obvious!
- They're both books.
- They're both in the writers's native language.
- Both are short on pictures.
- Both use words to say things.
But Trump isn't alone.
I'm more interested in:
- advocating xenophobia against specific racial and cultural groups (in Hitler's case, Jews and Gypsies; In Trump's case, Muslims and Mexicans).
- calling for the segregation and expulsion of "undesirables" (in Trump's case, by banning immigration by Muslims and by building a big border wall).
- violence by supporters against opponents.
Aye, that one always struck me as quite Big Brotherish.
It should be followed up with....."Resistance is futile!".
Religious, national & cultural, but not "racial".
Source for his advocating segregation?
This is an overblown claim.
If a comedian says it then it must be true.
http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/louis-c-k-donald-trump-insane-bigot-dangerous-1201723679/
http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/louis-c-k-donald-trump-insane-bigot-dangerous-1201723679/
I wondered about the kind of person who'd say Trump is Hitler.
Then I remembered there's the internet!
I searched.
I found.....
http://www.femisex.com/content/louis-c-k-outed-misogyny-and-bigotry-the-new-agenda
http://www.femisex.com/content/time...bigot-louis-ck-fails-mention-his-hatred-women