Trivializing Holocaust Insults

An excellent post up by Glenn Greenwald regarding the silence of the "holocaust" and "Hitler" language police when those insults are thrown by the Rightwing.

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"Nazis" and "Hitler" -- the Right's casual, trivializing political insults

.."Nazi" and "Hitler" comparisons have become, by far, the most common political insult on the Right, and these same Jewish advocacy groups are defeaningly silent. It is not merely that every new country on which the Right's war-crazed faction wants to wage war is "Nazi Germany" and every new leader -- or even every political functionary -- that does not submit completely to America's will is "Hitler." That is true, and it provokes no protests. But the casual, indiscriminate use of "Hitler" and "Nazism" as political exploitation is much more pervasive even than that.

Just in the past few months alone, there is virtually no prominent anti-war or liberal group that has not been branded as Hitler and Nazis by the most influential factions on the Right. If one's goal were to trivialize Hitler and Nazism and the Holocaust, one would do exactly what the Right is doing -- brand every political opponent as Hitler and Nazis on a virtually daily basis. Yet the groups that have anointed themselves proprietors of those terms, and which have in the past expressed such righteous outrage when those terms were used against the Right, sit by meekly and silently.."

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"..Now, one need merely express liberal views and criticize those on the Right and one is now indistinguishable from German Nazis. Hence, Markos Moulitsas and Media Matters and Jane Hamsher and MoveOn.org -- despite not actually advocating, let alone engaging in, genocide, the mass slaughter of Jews, and aggressive, unprovoked wars -- are all Adolf Hitlers, all Nazi Gestapo agents, and are all continuously branded as such by Fox News and right-wing radio.."

Link.

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