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[Jeremy Portzer <jeremyp AT pobox.com>]

On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 15:52, quack AT ibiblio.org wrote:
> > Why should I not react a little strongly when people make the comparison
> > that Bush is a Nazi?  What can I do to debate this characterization
> > politely?
> 
> You're looking at the wrong timeframe; the correct timing of
> modern-day-Bush to ?-day-Hitler isn't 1945, but closer to 1934.
> 
> People are not concerned about what Bush has done; these comparisons are
> because what the Bushites are saying sounds a lot like what Hitler said
> before he did what he is now reviled for.
> 
> Naturally, the comparisons are more popular than accurate, but they may
> yet prove to house a grain of truth.  (If you're honest with yourself, you
> already know this.)  Consider the phrase, "those who do not study history
> are doomed to repeat it".
> 

Your point is well taken about the comparison being better made toward a
1934-era Hitler.  However, with the word "Nazi" comes the emotional
punch of the 1945 Nazis and all their "accomplishments."  So I think I
would have been much less "struck" if a caveat such as yours had been
mentioned.

Thanks Paul for the reference on modern Fascism.

Jeremy

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