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Trump copies Hitler [ From World Socialist Web Site ]
[ When Hyperbole Is Dangerous - EXCERPT from Internet Opinion ]
[ Author James Crotty is no fan of Trump. But he’s also against “rhetorical desensitization” and the havoc it can wreak in the public forum. That’s why he has spoken out so strongly against the Trump-Hitler parallels that have flooded the media during the Republican candidate’s campaign.
In a piece for the Huffington Post, Crotty argued: “When we apply a Nazi comparison to someone or something that does not fit that comparison, then Nazism and the Holocaust lose their power to shock us.” And that’s when hyperbole becomes extremely dangerous.
Crotty shares this viewpoint with many other opinion leaders. Writer, producer and Hitler humor historian Rudolph Herzog told The Hollywood Reporter’s Seth Abramovitch that such comparisons were “very, very problematic.” Jewish-American author Shalom Auslander concurred, writing in a column for the Washington Post, “Don’t compare Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler. It belittles Hitler.”]
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