Stop comparing Trump to Hitler

[JWeinCom]

hershel_layton said:

JWeinCom said:
Do I think that Trump wants to kill millions of people or anything like that? No. I'm pretty sure he doesn't.

At the same time though, his rhetoric is dangerous. When a candidate wants to claim that a whole group of people is composed of rapists and drug dealers (and a few good people I assume), or that we should only be letting certain religious groups into the country, or that maybe we should register a group of people... Well, that's just stuff that we should be VERY cautious about.

Well of course. People here think I'm defending trump or something.

I'm not. It's the opposite. All I'm doing is pointing out that he currently is not as horrendous as Hitler. Can he? Quite easily. We've never had a president who was also one of the richest people on Earth. Any businessman would consider presidency as a dream. If Trump reaches it, he probably succeeded in his business quest to become one of the most powerful men to currently exist.

 

I just hope we don't need to see that day though. While he may not be as bad as Hitler, he's still a horrible man himself. Never said I support banning Muslims or Mexicans. All I said was that banning them would not be as terrible as killing millions of civilians and invading countries.

The thing is though, a lot of his policies are in line with some of the things Hitler had done.

Often people compare others to Hitler as a sort of generic insult... but that's not the case here.  Scapegoating a certain groups, extreme xenophobia, labelling people by religion... those are things Hitler did.  

So, why shouldn't we compare?