[ April 25, 2024 ]
The Washington Post describes the author of this appalling piece of hate propaganda, Waitman Wade Beorn, as a “Holocaust and genocide studies historian and lecturer at the University of Virginia.” The university should fire him immediately, but of course it won’t. It will more likely give him a reward. But in any case, it is clear that Waitman Wade Beorn has no idea what the Holocaust was, or what it involved. The Trump campaign has fired back here, pointing out the obvious: America is not a “totalitarian, hellish, genocidal state.” There are no camps being prepared for anyone. What is happening instead is full-on leftist hysteria. The left is so avid to destroy Trump, they’ll say anything. And it is likely only to get worse.
“It’s not wrong to compare Trump’s America to the Holocaust. Here’s why.,” by Waitman Wade Beorn, Washington Post, July 16, 2018 (thanks to Mark):
The Holocaust has endured more than enough abusive and absurd comparisons in American political life. Both ends of the spectrum too often seek to draw on its emotional and historical power to advance their completely unrelated agendas. Pat Robertson bizarrely invoked it, saying, “Just what Nazi Germany did to the Jews, so liberal America is now doing to evangelical Christians … It’s no different.” On the other side, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has consistently and shamelessly abused the memory of the Holocaust for its animal rights agenda. A video on its website includes what sounds like Holocaust survivor testimony and is introduced with the words, “From the factory farm to your plate, animals go through the same process that the Nazis put Jews and others through during the Holocaust.”
Story continues below advertisementWith such ignorant, irrational and offensive appropriations out there, it is not surprising that many are pushing back against current comparisons with the Trump administration. These rebuttals of the use of Holocaust comparisons in reference to the administration have come stridently from various quarters. The columnist Daniella Greenbaum would prohibit us from “comparing all wrongs, even the ones that Trump carries out, to the evils of Nazi Germany.” She claims such comparisons are “dressing up” current events in “another (significantly crueler) disaster.” A writer for the conservative American Spectator called comparisons “despicable” and “cheap.” American Jews are themselves divided. Some have seen “parallels” between the administration and Nazi policy while others, such as Morton Klein, president of the Zionist Organization of America, called such comparisons “morally bankrupt” and then doubled down, suggesting that they even “border[ed] on denying the Holocaust.” Nobel Laureate and Auschwitz survivor Elie Wiesel, who died in 2016, once said, categorically, “I don’t compare anything to the Holocaust.” Indeed, some scholars have suggested that the Holocaust as a historical event is unique and therefore incomparable to any other events, past or present.
Is it, though? Can we truly never compare the Holocaust to events in modern politics? The scholarly community has a duty to engage the question. If we truly adhere to the oft-intoned “Never Again,” then we also bear the responsibility of helping others recognize when “again” is now. Shunning comparisons misses an opportunity to mobilize important history for the public good….
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16 Comments
5 years ago
On the other side, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has consistently and shamelessly abused the memory of the Holocaust for its animal rights agenda.
Alex Hershaft, Polish born Holocaust survivor with a stenciled number on his arm also draws that analogy. Both the Holocaust and the meat industry involve[d] mass mechanized killing of sentient beings amidst great cruelty.
5 years ago
Pro-jihadi have become unhinged because Trump wants to protect America ! How dare he ?
And UN Supports Jihadi Invasion and Islamic Takeover of Non-Muslim Lands after rejecting Trump’s Nominee
https://tinyurl.com/yc88lljq
So why are we funding these scumbags ?
5 years ago
Reply to
Suresh
Trump is bucking their globalist agenda.
Trump has withdrawn form their human rights anti Israel program and the U.N.’s people trafikking er refugee program.
5 years ago
Enforcing ILLEGAL immigration rules that have been on the books for decades is like the holocaust?
We don’t want OPEN BORDERS and MASS ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION!
5 years ago
They’re not making any concessions to logic–merely doubling down on their idiocy hoping to brainwash all the feeble minded out there. Of which there are many; we all know a few.
5 years ago
Reply to
Nabi Rasch
They truly are amazing! Their utter stupidity and irrationality there for all to see and yet these imbeciles feel no shame. Why? Because ‘shame’ requires a modicum of intelligent thought. Meanwhile to outsiders these fools are making America look astoundingly stupid.
5 years ago
Reply to
Rob Porter
I don’t care about ‘outsiders’. Most of them are just as screwy–sanctimonious, virtue signalling hypocrites who need to have a hard look at themselves.
5 years ago
Reply to
Nabi Rasch
They truly are amazing! Their utter stupidity and irrationality there for all to see and yet these imbeciles feel no shame. Why? Because ‘shame’ requires a modicum of intelligent thought. Meanwhile to outsiders these fools are making America look astoundingly stupid.
5 years ago
Erm – America, I think you have a problem.
Is there any chance someone could stick their winkey in his ear and erm, er, “inject” some wisdom into the echoing void where that little chaps brain used to be ?
Who pays his wages ?
Get your money back son, you’ve been had.
5 years ago
WHY do all these uckers look like LITTE BOYS with weird ears, even? Must be in their DNA, I swear.
Check to see if this MORON is FATHERLESS, will ya???
5 years ago
In his “Crusade in Europe”, General Eisenhower states that upon discovering and liberating the Nazi death camps he paused long enough to allow Army photographers and film crews to document everything that was found. He believed, and rightly so, that the human mind would be incapable of embracing the harsh truth otherwise.
By the same token, the entrance gates at Auschwitz and the ovens at Buchenwald were left in place as constant reminders. As stated, there is no basis for cheap comparisons.
5 years ago
The now clinically insane ideology of Progressive liberalism in America has no moral authority to compare anyone to Hitler other than themselves. They have intellectualized the murder of 61 million unborn human babies, with the sick justification that a baby is not a baby if the mother doesn’t want it. Possibly as insane as that is, conservatives and Patriots contrary to World War II, acccept their right to murder 4, 000 babies per day and even sell their body parts. In addition, while accepting their other premise that the infanticide is just another political issue, also fund it to the tune of 500 million dollars a year.
5 years ago
Reply to
byronmullet
You should have, a few years back, read about the Supreme Court of Canada discussing abortion. With astounding stupidity these supposedly wise judges couldn’t bring themselves to describe the child in the womb as a “child” or “fetus”, so these geniuses resorted to calling it a “thing” – and other things I no longer recall. It never seemed to occur to them that they had once been “a thing”. What they were desperately trying to avoid was saying something that acknowledged that this “thing” was life, a living being and that destroying it was a form of murder, so they indulged in mental acrobatics made them look remarkably stupid.
5 years ago
I can’t believe this is happening.
5 years ago
Waitman Wade Beorn is a total idiot. I have collected memorabilia from the Holocaust for years. I have read extensively and have visited the death camps. I have even read the Holocaust Deniers books. I will only claim to be an amateur. With that said I know more than this idiot and truly understand Israel’s statement “Never again.” Godspeed Israel.
To claim Trump’s America is a Holocaust is an INSULT to the 12 Million + that were killed because of the Holocaust. Insulting the dead does no one any good. This idiot doesn’t get that.
5 years ago
Just another clueless, asshat snowflake…
