@mixolydian said:

@23piper said:

Nazi comparisons have grown a bit tired. Hitler came to power during the height of the "eugenics" movement. He was fanatic about "inferior races". I see hidden or disguised racism but there's no longer any type of scientific cover for it. This is something else in that regard. As for the tactics of rounding people up based on... race and Nationality and sending them "away" to places where, contractually, nothing good can happen to them. That does seem a bit familiar, doesn't it?

OTOH, Eugenic lines of thought are far from dead. Gad Saad evokes them in his demonization of empathy, which has JD Vance's full attention.

See also Elon Musk's posts on X over the last 2 1/2 years. He has a real bad habit of quoting and upvoting eugenicists. The question isn't whether or not we should be comparing Trump/etc to the Nazis any more than we should be asking if that hand gesture at the presidential event on Inauguration night was a Nazi salute.

We all know the answer to both, despite some other specific but minor differences. Had people paid attention they wouldn't be driving cars they now wish they weren't driving.