2020 Dem Marianne Williamson: Trump's ICE raids 'no different' than what Jews faced in Nazi Germany

[DonViejo]

2020 Democrat Marianne Williamson: Trump's ICE raids 'no different' than what Jews faced in Nazi Germany

BY MORGAN GSTALTER - 06/20/19 07:56 AM EDT

Democratic presidential candidate Marianne Williamson on Tuesday said that the announcement by President Trump this week that Immigration and Customs Enforcement will begin mass deportations is "no different" than when Jews faced deportation in 1930s Nazi Germany.

Williamson was speaking at Southern New Hampshire University and said that, as a Jew, she was taught to say “never again” in reference to the Holocaust.

“It’s happening again,” the candidate said as the crowd applauded. “There are some people who would say to me, ‘now Ms. Williamson, I think this Jewish analogy, you’ve really gone too far there. This is not the same situation at all.’”

“But ladies and gentlemen some of those people will be deported to places so dangerous that it actually is no different,” she added.

The bestselling author told Vice News that she is cautious about comparing the Trump administration to the Nazi regime murdering millions of Jews but decried the president’s tweet about deportations.

“[Trump is] announcing it, he’s celebrating it like it’s something to be proud of,” she said of Trump’s tweet. “I don’t know about you, but I have visited the Anne Frank House. I’ve been to those places where people hid Jews in the basement. When I think of the fear that some people are going through right now after the president made that announcement, you know, where are they going to go?”

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[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. Correct statement.

The horror would be if many die as a result of their incarceration all because they want to live a life free of violence, poverty, and no hope for the future.

[crazytown]

2. The Jews were not deported in prewar Nazi Germany

[LanternWaste]

5. Merely displaced

As though that's a distinction with a difference relevant to the original premise...

[crazytown]

6. I think it is important to distinquish each individual step

that ended with cattle cars arriving at extermination camps.

[DavidDvorkin]

3. Way off; a better comparison is to the US in the 30s refusing to accept refugees and sending them

back to their deaths.

[bluewater]

4. K&R