"Nazis" and "Hitler" -- the Right's casual, trivializing political insults
Oct. 01, 2007
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One of the rules of political discourse that we had until quite recently -- enforced most vigorously by groups such as the Anti-Defamation League and The Simon Wiesenthal Center, among others -- was that nobody was allowed to invoke Hitler and Nazis as a political insult. To do so, we heard constantly, was to trivialize Nazisim and the Holocaust and exploit that imagery for cheap political gain.
Jewish groups which in the past righteously protested the exploitative use of the terms "Nazi" and "Hitler" now sit by silently as Fox News routinely spews those terms against political opponents.
Glenn Greenwald
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One of the rules of political discourse that we had until quite recently -- enforced most vigorously by groups such as the Anti-Defamation League and The Simon Wiesenthal Center, among others -- was that nobody was allowed to invoke Hitler and Nazis as a political insult. To do so, we heard constantly, was to trivialize Nazisim and the Holocaust and exploit that imagery for cheap political gain.
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