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DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts) Sat Jul 11, 2015, 02:47 PM Jul 2015

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At the risk of invoking Godwin's Law

Donald Trump is about to speak in Phoenix. I am a matrilineal Jew. I was telling my girlfriend that if I were a Latino seeing Donald Trump on the television would fill me with the same dread is if I were a Jew in 1930s Germany and hearing Adolf Hitler on the radio.

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At the risk of invoking Godwin's Law (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Jul 2015 OP

Shades of George Wallace. haikugal Jul 2015 #1

+1/nt DemocratSinceBirth Jul 2015 #2

Godwin's Law? SheilaT Jul 2015 #3

When you compare someone Hitler you have already lost the argument DemocratSinceBirth Jul 2015 #4

haikugal

(6,476 posts)

1. Shades of George Wallace.

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Sat Jul 11, 2015, 02:49 PM

Jul 2015

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)

2. +1/nt

Reply to haikugal (Reply #1)

Sat Jul 11, 2015, 02:50 PM

Jul 2015

SheilaT

(23,156 posts)

3. Godwin's Law?

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Sat Jul 11, 2015, 03:24 PM

Jul 2015

I must confess total ignorance here.

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)

4. When you compare someone Hitler you have already lost the argument

Reply to SheilaT (Reply #3)

Sat Jul 11, 2015, 03:48 PM

Jul 2015

Godwin's Law states that when you compare someone Hitler you have already lost the argument.

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