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> People are saying he's hitler UNIRONICALLY Like the Tea Party people from a few years ago claiming that Obama was Hitler "unironically" and that Obamacare wa

by pyre 10y ago

> People are saying he's hitler UNIRONICALLY Like the Tea Party people from a few years ago claiming that Obama was Hitler "unironically" and that Obamacare was a "Nazi program"? {edit} I'm curious why you didn't see things like this: http://www.wataugawatch.net/uploaded_images/Tea-party-2-712911.jpg http://www.wataugawatch.net/uploaded_images/Tea-party-2-7129... as "going way past the line?"

omonra 10y ago
Citation please.
- pyre 10y ago
  This comes up on the first page of a Google search... It's almost like you didn't search for anything yourself... http://americablog.com/2013/02/tea-party-obama-is-hitler.html http://americablog.com/2013/02/tea-party-obama-is-hitler.htm... or there is this: https://kristiann1.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/hitler-t-4-obamacare-nazi-socialist-barack-hussein-obama-1.jpg?w=777&h=501 https://kristiann1.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/hitler-t-4-ob...
  - omonra 10y ago
    Right - but I don't think anybody took that seriously. Even the tea partiers saying it most likely only meant it as a 'Obama is a very bad guy and the worst name we can call him is Hitler'. On the other hand the many liberal journalists prognosticating Trump to become a totalitarian like Hitler really meant it (for example see https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/09/28/this-new-york-times-review-of-a-hitler-book-sure-looked-like-a-thinly-veiled-trump-hitler-comparison/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/09/28/th...)