The post wasn't anti-Semitic in so much that it showed disdain for Jews, it was anti-Semitic in that it trivialized the Holocaust: "I act like an ass and say horrible things. People shun me for it, therefore I'm like the Jews and they're like the N*zis". (had to get around the lameness filter)
That is abhorrent. It's something both the right and the left do, but the right and the left also have instances where they make legitimate comparisons based upon their point of view. If you see Republicans putting children in cages, think they're making those children suffer, treating them like animals, then shipping them off to the very countries they fled for their lives, then yes...the comparison is legitimate. If you believe a fetus is a baby, think abortion is killing millions of babies, then yes, the comparison is legitimate. If you compare the Rwandan genocide to the Holocaust, that's a legitimate comparison. But, "I say things that offend people, so they're upset with me and that makes me a victim just like the Jews in the Holocaust", that's repugnant.
If you compare the Holocaust to the normal, every day it shows you don't really understand the depravity of the Holocaust. You're attempting, whether consciously or not, to belittle the victims of the Holocaust and their suffering. Now, in both of the cases I stated above, someone can make the mistake that they are dead wrong - that there is a lot missing from the equation, etc. and that is nothing like the Holocaust. But, in both those cases the person is taking what they believe to be a case of great human suffering and comparing it to what they know to be a former case of great human suffering. But, "I face consequences for the things I say and the way I act" ? No. That's completely belittling the holocaust.
So, constantly calling Trump Cheeto Hitler and laughable comparisons of his policies to fascist states' in 1930s and 40s isn't trivializing jewish genocide (and other awful things of the period)? If it is, why hasn't anyone been fired for *that*?
If you compare the Holocaust to the normal, every day it shows you don't really understand the depravity of the Holocaust.
Perhaps it shows how much the Holocaust depended on the careful guiding of grass roots support in the community to carry out its depravity. Had public opinion not been carefully molded, it is unlikely that the brown shirts could have carried out their pogroms at the level they did. The Holocaust was bad, but there are those that don't want these tools taken away from them or blunted should they need them to craft their own popular uprising.
This attack on Carano is just saying "Don't hate the haters. Becaus
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Wasn't hating, was belittling (Score:2)
The post wasn't anti-Semitic in so much that it showed disdain for Jews, it was anti-Semitic in that it trivialized the Holocaust: "I act like an ass and say horrible things. People shun me for it, therefore I'm like the Jews and they're like the N*zis". (had to get around the lameness filter)
That is abhorrent. It's something both the right and the left do, but the right and the left also have instances where they make legitimate comparisons based upon their point of view. If you see Republicans putting children in cages, think they're making those children suffer, treating them like animals, then shipping them off to the very countries they fled for their lives, then yes...the comparison is legitimate. If you believe a fetus is a baby, think abortion is killing millions of babies, then yes, the comparison is legitimate. If you compare the Rwandan genocide to the Holocaust, that's a legitimate comparison. But, "I say things that offend people, so they're upset with me and that makes me a victim just like the Jews in the Holocaust", that's repugnant.
If you compare the Holocaust to the normal, every day it shows you don't really understand the depravity of the Holocaust. You're attempting, whether consciously or not, to belittle the victims of the Holocaust and their suffering. Now, in both of the cases I stated above, someone can make the mistake that they are dead wrong - that there is a lot missing from the equation, etc. and that is nothing like the Holocaust. But, in both those cases the person is taking what they believe to be a case of great human suffering and comparing it to what they know to be a former case of great human suffering. But, "I face consequences for the things I say and the way I act" ? No. That's completely belittling the holocaust.
Re:Wasn't hating, was belittling (Score:5, Insightful)
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Because it's trivializing and definitely not complimenting him?
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If you compare the Holocaust to the normal, every day it shows you don't really understand the depravity of the Holocaust.
Perhaps it shows how much the Holocaust depended on the careful guiding of grass roots support in the community to carry out its depravity. Had public opinion not been carefully molded, it is unlikely that the brown shirts could have carried out their pogroms at the level they did. The Holocaust was bad, but there are those that don't want these tools taken away from them or blunted should they need them to craft their own popular uprising.
This attack on Carano is just saying "Don't hate the haters. Becaus