10-08-2020, 08:01 PM
(10-08-2020, 07:29 PM)Dill Wrote: Here is your chance for a serious response: What are the terms of the comparison?
I largely give serious responses, just not when the question isn't serious. In your case I am happy to reply as requested in the hopes that you follow suit. First off, my disdain for Nazi and Hitler comparisons is well known. They are so loaded that they automatically terminate any serious dialogue. By choosing to make a direct comparison to Hitler you are indulging in this behavior. Of course no one with any knowledge of Hitler, with the benefit of nearly 100 years of hindsight and analysis, would read anything into his comments on this topic as anything other than what it was. Even back then Hitler made his intentions largely known. Contrast that with Trump. Is Trump definitively stating that Scandinavian Caucasians have superior genes? Is Trump even definitively saying that white Minnesotans have superior genes? If so superior to what?
He's addressing a crowd. He stated people in Minnesota have good genes. He did not exclude any groups living in Minnesota from that statement. He did not precede his statement with a chapters long diatribe about the superiority of the "Aryan" race compared to the "subhuman" Jew or "insert ethnic minority here". So while you, and rational others such as Hollodero, can find his comments disturbing and flirting, at best, with the concept of eugenics, a direct comparison to Hitler's statements in Mein Kampf is wholly inappropriate because of what Trump did said, but far more so because of what he did not. So, insanely inflammatory comparisons to Nazis and Hitler aside, the direct comparison doesn't even withstand scrutiny without those loaded comparison.
Quite simply, and I honestly ask that you not give me a two page answer to this because I find them ponderous (no insult here, I'm being honest), comparisons to Hitler or the Nazis will almost always be met with disdain on my part because of what they represent and how insanely prejudicial they are.
