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"This is him funding smear campaigns for a fascist." This sort of "Trump is literally Hitler" rhetoric is anything but constructive. I'm sad to see that so man

"This is him funding smear campaigns for a fascist." This sort of "Trump is literally Hitler" rhetoric is anything but constructive. I'm sad to see that so many in the tech community are willing to operate at this level. Republicans are not Nazis. Good people support Trump. They are your neighbors and colleagues. You're behaving like the fear-mongering oppressors you claim to despise.

jhayward 10y ago
Good people supported Hitler too. He had about the same level of support that Trump does. Hanna Arendt documented "the banality of evil" quite well. That nice neighbor who always smiles and says hello, but votes to ship Muslims to a concentration camp? They're evil.
- leurfete 10y ago
  No one has called for Muslims to be shipped to concentration camps. Frankly, the most intolerant voices I've been hearing this election cycle come from the left -- calling for conservatives to be purged and blacklisted at every turn. Progressives seem to have whipped themselves up into a moral panic. Sad times.
  - jhayward 10y ago
    Trump has praised Roosevelt's internment of the Japanese, as well as restrictions on movement, property ownership, and possesion of radios as an appropriate model for how to deal with Muslims.
    - leurfete 10y ago
      You're spinning what he said. I'm not voting this election, but I'm 100% against outrage culture. 'When asked whether he would have supported Japanese internment camps, Trump told Time that he could not say for certain. "I would have had to be there at the time to tell you, to give you a proper answer," he told the magazine. "I certainly hate the concept of it. But I would have had to be there at the time to give you a proper answer."'[1] 1). https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/12/08/trump-on-internment-camps-i-certainly-hate-the-concept/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/12...
      - mikesickler 10y ago
        He's praised Eisenhower's Operation Wetback. Many, many times.

jhayward 10y ago

Good people supported Hitler too. He had about the same level of support that Trump does. Hanna Arendt documented "the banality of evil" quite well. That nice neighbor who always smiles and says hello, but votes to ship Muslims to a concentration camp? They're evil.

leurfete 10y ago
No one has called for Muslims to be shipped to concentration camps. Frankly, the most intolerant voices I've been hearing this election cycle come from the left -- calling for conservatives to be purged and blacklisted at every turn. Progressives seem to have whipped themselves up into a moral panic. Sad times.
- jhayward 10y ago
  Trump has praised Roosevelt's internment of the Japanese, as well as restrictions on movement, property ownership, and possesion of radios as an appropriate model for how to deal with Muslims.
  - leurfete 10y ago
    You're spinning what he said. I'm not voting this election, but I'm 100% against outrage culture. 'When asked whether he would have supported Japanese internment camps, Trump told Time that he could not say for certain. "I would have had to be there at the time to tell you, to give you a proper answer," he told the magazine. "I certainly hate the concept of it. But I would have had to be there at the time to give you a proper answer."'[1] 1). https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/12/08/trump-on-internment-camps-i-certainly-hate-the-concept/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/12...
    - mikesickler 10y ago
      He's praised Eisenhower's Operation Wetback. Many, many times.