Kim Du Toit has a very moving post about his visit to Dachau. It is incredible to think that humans can do that to other people. Even wild dogs don't treat their fellow species with such hatred, torturing, killing, raping, and destroying lives.
I cried when I saw Schindler's List. It was a incredibly moving motion picture. But sitting here in a warm movie theater, or house, eating popcorn and emphathizing hardly seems right. The subject matter of the story is so hard to accept as reality, but reality is was. There was a man called Hitler, and he did terrible things.
One thing that Kim says, and I never really thought of it this way, is how beliddling it is to call Bush, Hitler. You've probably heard it. The hateful left loves to equate Bush to Hitler.
Kim says it better than I could:
What I care about is that by trivializing the issue, by using your absurd hyperbole, you dishonor the suffering and the loss suffered by the people who were victimized by the real Hitler. Your own illusory suffering at the hands of this Republican president is not only trivial, it is non-existent, and do not even think you can begin to equate the two.
I can take it further. Your grotesque equation of the two leaders is a profound exaggeration: and it's the same kind of gross exaggeration used by Hitler and his henchmen to inflate the "Jewish problem" into a manifest danger, whereby people could ignore the excesses of places like Dachau as being justified. In case that isn't clear enough to you, let me connect the dots. George W. Bush isn't using Hitlerian tactics, you are.
