@tristansnell Not all fascists have to be compared to Nazis. The Nazis were fascists, for sure -- but fascism is bad enough on its own.

Kids aren't learning just how fucking evil the actual Nazis were. They aren't learning about actual fucking traincar loads of people, with 13 million of them shipped to camps where they were systematically incinerated or shot to fall into mass graves they had dug themselves at gunpoint.

Let's save the Nazi comparisons for actual fucking nazis.

@alper @FirefighterGeek @tristansnell I replied separately about the same thing with a story from my visit to the Holocaust Museum in DC, but that museum also gave me a lesson in the power of dehumanization.

At one point, you can go through or around a train car. I went through. The plaque outside had said how many people were stuffed in so I stopped in the middle and tried to picture putting that many people in. I couldn't.

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@alper @FirefighterGeek @tristansnell Then I realized my problem. I was trying to fit PEOPLE in the train car. Even with imaginary people, I was giving them basic human dignity. I switched to fitting human shaped luggage in the car & was able to do it easily.

It was a lesson in the power of dehumanization. Without dehumanizing Jews & other groups, the Nazis wouldn't have been successful. When Trump & the Republicans dehumanize people, I flash back to that train car & it scares me.

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@TechyDad @alper @tristansnell That's my point. Some similar language from someone we already know is a fascist, using language that's a common as dirt for fascists and populists, doesn't rise to the level of stuffing human beings into train cars like lumber and moving them en masse to literal death factories.

Making those links just reinforces the lack of education in schools about just how fucking evil these people were.