“I’m told evoking the Nazis is very dangerous talk, very polarizing. I’m told that evoking this is disrespectful to the millions who died, and such a radical rhetorical leap that it disqualifies my points. And perhaps so, though I think that the reason we all learned that the lesson of Nazis was to speak up when somebody started following their recipe before we arrive at the the industrialized systemic murder of millions, and that the true disrespect to those who died is if we ever allowed someone to do it again … but I’m given to understand that what’s far more dangerous and polarizing than the actual eliminationist rhetoric is pointing out that this is exactly what it is, as long as the slightest scrap of deniability exists to pull over the shame of it, as long as the slightest rationale exists to name that deniability “reasonable.””
https://armoxon.substack.com/p/they-know-exactly-what-theyre-doing
@nsarwark For most of my life, it was absolutely "disrespectful to the millions who died" to "[evoke] the Nazis". But it occurs to me that the reason why is analogous to why one should not falsely cry "Wolf".
Only now, the wolves are trying to convince us that the lesson of that parable was to remain silent even as they circle our homesteads, ready to strike.
