Dear Focus on the Family |
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| By: Ari Friday November 7, 2008 3:03 pm | |
Please stop comparing people who aren’t Nazis to Nazis.
The spirit of Winston Churchill was alive and well on Tuesday night at Focus on the Family Action headquarters.
You may recall that in the most desperate days of World War II – when Great Britain was being pounded daily by Hitler’s Luftwaffe – that Winston Churchill called on his countrymen not to despair from danger but to rise to the challenge. […]
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Someone needs to explain this characteristic of fascism to the FOTF folks:
3. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause
The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a
perceived common threat or foe: racial , ethnic or religious minorities; liberals;
communists; socialists, terrorists, etc.
Perhaps this applies: “As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.”