timschochet
Footballguy
So on that video over the weekend by Arnold Schwarzenegger, he invoked Kristallnacht to discuss the riots. I get what he was trying to do; he’s from Austria, but the analogy doesn’t really hold. (A better analogy would be the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch, though that doesn’t hold either.)
Then this morning Jeanine Pirro compared the deplatforming of Parler to Kristallnacht- no I’m not making this up, she actually did. I don’t want to forget a guy I support, Joe Biden, bringing up Josef Goebbels last week.
Pirro was the most ridiculous (as she usually is) but in terms of American politics it’s never a wise comparison to make. The Nazis were either the first or second most evil regime in history (Stalinist Russia always has an argument here) so the only purpose of such an analogy is to declare one’s opponent as not just wrong but evil.
Then this morning Jeanine Pirro compared the deplatforming of Parler to Kristallnacht- no I’m not making this up, she actually did. I don’t want to forget a guy I support, Joe Biden, bringing up Josef Goebbels last week.
Pirro was the most ridiculous (as she usually is) but in terms of American politics it’s never a wise comparison to make. The Nazis were either the first or second most evil regime in history (Stalinist Russia always has an argument here) so the only purpose of such an analogy is to declare one’s opponent as not just wrong but evil.