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Trump administration 2024-2028

Brad Sallows said:
No. I'm advocating toning down the rhetoric from the people crying "fascism!" or "Hitler!" in ways that incite others to consider violent attacks on targets of the rhetoric.
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When Nazism is a legitimate comparable to something, the solution is not to stifle speech nor to deny the legitimate comparisons. The solution is for that something to stop behaving in ways that are legitimately comparable to nazism.
 
My reaction when people start using words like Hitler,Nazi,Communist etc willy nilly is to ignore the person and their position saying it. Probably due to the fact that after having spent many years among Americans who tend to throw the word communist around as a lazy and incorrect catch all label for anybody and anything even 1 millimeter to the left of Atilla…..I consider it mental laziness and a dishonest attempt to denigrate the subject under discussion.
 
Genetk44 said:
My reaction when people start using words like Hitler,Nazi,Communist etc willy nilly is to ignore the person and their position saying it.
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The creator of Godwin's Law put it this way,

‘Trump Knows What He’s Doing’: The Creator of Godwin’s Law Says the Hitler Comparison Is Apt​

 
McG said:
When Nazism is a legitimate comparable to something, the solution is not to stifle speech nor to deny the legitimate comparisons. The solution is for that something to stop behaving in ways that are legitimately comparable to nazism.
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"Conservatives are fascists."

"Progressives are communists."

Those are both equally ridiculous statements, and neither is helpful to public discourse and the general political mood.

Who decides what the threshold is for "legitimately comparable"? I find that fascism and communism (as it turns out when attempted, not as it is idealized) have a lot of overlaps. Why aren't glimmerings of a police state evidence of incipient Stalinism? Ditto the idea of a government run by a favoured ethnicity (eg. Russian)? Is a military parade automatically redolent of Hitler, or of May Day?

What I see is this: people stretching comparisons to vilify people with whom they disagree. Period.
 
mariomike said:
The creator of Godwin's Law put it this way,

‘Trump Knows What He’s Doing’: The Creator of Godwin’s Law Says the Hitler Comparison Is Apt​

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The creator of Godwin's Law is just some guy with an axe to grind. He isn't an authority to which you can appeal.
 
Genetk44 said:
My reaction when people start using words like Hitler,Nazi,Communist etc willy nilly is to ignore the person and their position saying it. Probably due to the fact that after having spent many years among Americans who tend to throw the word communist around as a lazy and incorrect catch all label for anybody and anything even 1 millimeter to the left of Atilla…..I consider it mental laziness and a dishonest attempt to denigrate the subject under discussion.
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Except the people on here aren't doing it willy nilly. We're not throwing out the words Genocide or Nazi due to any one specific case, we're looking at the whole picture and basing it on a sum of numerous examples. In fact, very few times has anyone on here actually said "Trump/MAGA is/are Nazis", rather we've said they are fascists, and compared specific individuals to specific Nazis.
 
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