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Re:Against Normalization: The Lesson of the “Munich Post” by Nokinside on Sunday February 12, 2017 @07:15AM (#13628013)
>The Holocaust is the reason everyone still talks about Hitler 70 years later,

That's vulgar comparison for uneducated people. If the only difference between Hitler and some other dictator is genocide, we haven't learned anything from history.

All fascist movements, Hitler, Mussolini, Franco etc. used similar methods that made fascism different from other dictatorships and authoritarian moments.

Suggested reading: The Anatomy of Fascism, Robert O. Paxton. In that book Paxton rescues the fascism as a concept from a insult into meaningful concept.

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Re:Against Normalization: The Lesson of the “Munich Post” by leereeves on Sunday February 12, 2017 @07:57AM (#13628123)
It easy to make such comparisons to fascism without invoking thoughts of the Holocaust: compare to Mussolini or Franco instead of Hitler.
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Re:Against Normalization: The Lesson of the “Munich Post” by Nokinside on Sunday February 12, 2017 @08:18AM (#13628189)
Trump kept a book of Hitler's speeches by his bed, not books of Mussolini speeches.
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Re:Against Normalization: The Lesson of the “Munich Post” by leereeves on Sunday February 12, 2017 @08:43AM (#13628270)
And here again you seek to imply something without actually saying it.

What do you mean to imply by that?

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