Johanna Saunders writes:
"1930s Germany was all about rhetoric, ideology, othering, removal of rights, intimidation, propaganda and finger pointing which focussed on minorities/disabled /religion/sexual orientation etc.
War itself (1939) and the horror that followed (Wannsee / Holocaust 1942 etc) came later.
it’s about preventing future Holocausts from happening, and if the language you use is reminiscent to language used before the Holocaust, then it’s a moral duty to point it out."
@DTJackson
Consider adding “political conformity” to the list.
I don’t know how this would look like in the UK but, in the US, a favourite Republican epithet is to call someone a RINO (republican in name only). Which exactly the same concept around “ideological purity” that the Soviets had.
IMO Linekar got this wrong.
The language is the same as that used by Nazi Germany that's a fact.
But it's also the same as the Tory party themselves used to describe Jewish migrants (1920s), black migrants (1950s), Irish migrants etc...
It's also similar language they are now using to demonise trans people, that they also used in the past to demonise gay people.
You get the point.
The Tories are awful people, we shouldn't be surprised when they act that out from time to time.
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