In Germany we call what he did a "Nazivergleich". I cannot remember one as bad as his being uttered by a public figure over here in the last few decades and qui

In Germany we call what he did a "Nazivergleich". I cannot remember one as bad as his being uttered by a public figure over here in the last few decades and quite a few public figures had to apologize/step down because of Nazivergleiche that were way weaker. I don't want to reiterate everything I vented in the previous discussion of this incident[1], but the point is: You DO NOT invoke the Holocaust to draw attention on something else. The holocaust is of central importance to the history of the western world. A Germany that, at the turn of the century, was a beacon of science, industrialization and even free thought, took only fourty years to transform into a state where it was possible to conduct industrialized genocide without much opposition. This is not to be taken lightly, but to be contemplated and internalized. It is not to be invoked just to make a conversational point. AND YOU DON'T USE IT TO DRAW ATTENTION TO YOURSELF. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7121533 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7121533