“What is going on in this country is giving me chills. Trump is not like Hitler. Just because a leader wants order doesn’t mean they’re like a dictator. What reminds me more of Hitler than anything else isn’t Trump, it’s the destruction of freedom of speech on the college campuses — the agendas fueled by the professors. That’s how Hitler started, he pulled in the youth to miseducate them, to brainwash them, it’s happening today.” America needs to grow up. The young people who are rioting and destroying property, who have no respect for elders and freedom of speech, I was so proud to become a citizen of this country. Professors shouldn’t be telling their students to go after freedom of speech. They should be telling them that this is the greatest country in the world. The demonstrators can’t tell you why they’re demonstrating. I’m not a Republican. I’m not a Democrat. I just want the country to be at peace. I see what is happening here reflecting some of the things we saw in Germany, and it’s terrifying. It’s sad. But it’s not because of Trump. It’s because of poor education. Trump is not like Hitler. The theory that he is is propaganda. Yes, I lived through some of Nazi Germany, but all you have to do is read some books about that period to see how wrong that theory is.” She went further, slamming the self-entitlement of today’s millennials compared to what her generation had to endure...." Andrews survived the war before making it to the United States after her mother married an American, but not before undergoing extreme vetting at a number of different U.S. military camps. “So we had a vetting process like what we are going through now because you have to have this to make the country safe,” said Andrews. Although she encountered difficulties learning English, Andrews said she would always try to speak English rather than German when in public, “Because we believed we needed to honor the country that opened its doors for us. It was rude to do otherwise.” Andrews concluded by warning that “we will repeat history” if Americans sacrifice the ability to think freely and unquestionably swallow media propaganda about Trump. http://www.infowars.com/woman-born-in-nazi-germany-trump-isnt-like-hitler-rioting-leftists-are/
Interestingly enough my extended family of older in-laws from Germany who were children in the WW2 era are saying the same thing (on both sides of the ocean) about the protestors & Trump. None of them are Trump supporters. But their biggest memories of the Nazi era were brownshirts (and other political party protestors in the 20s/30s) doing violence to others in the street, and the protestors in the U.S. remind them very much of the brownshirts. Trump reminds them more of President Paul von Hindenburg (a fumbling, right-wing blowhard with no understanding of politics or economics) of Germany (prior Hitler) than of Adolf. Their fear is that the policies and rulings driven by Trump will open the door to a dictatorship (post Trump) rather than Trump acting as a dictator. Similar to what happened in Germany with President Paul von Hindenburg.
I don't know why you think that's such a stretch. Protesting people's right to speak (like Milo and Berkeley) is very similar to authoritarianism.
So, according to you, it is not a stretch to conclude that protesting against authoritarianism will spark a move to authoritarianism. Does this mean, by extension, that supporting authoritarianism will, therefore, prevent it? I'm just trying to get a handle on the pretzel.
What authoritarianism? They trashed U.C. berkley because a gay jew wanted to speak, and supposedly they are protesting Fascism, lol. Any bipartisan person looking at this from the outside would automatically assume the people destroying property, and assaulting people because they didnt want a gay jew to speak were the nazis, its pretty clear cut.
the protests are being funded by those who desire authoritarian rule. Soros does not like our freedoms in America.
Actually it is disorder in the streets that leads to authoritarianism. At some point the mass of people are tired of the disorder and are perfectly willing to accept more authoritarianism to end the chaos. May I also point out that Trump is hardly an authoritarian compared to the dictators of the 1930s. He is more akin to a bumbling politician if you want to make a comparison (based on complaints about his behavior & policies).
My original comment was in response to gwb-trading, and then the specific comment by Tsing that I quoted. I don't know the details regarding the case you are referring to.