Memo to people who use Nazi/Holocaust imagery for every perceived slight, issue, and event.

There are no valid comparisons/analogies that can be made to what the Nazis did and what the Holocaust was unless you’re actually talking about an actual government policy that led to the systematic death of an entire race/ethnic group/creed/sexual orientation because of who they were and what they represented. I’m talking about genocide and democide, as well as the systematic deprivation of all rights of the target group.

Abortion does not equal genocide or the Holocaust. Those who call for the access to abortion are not Nazis.

Moreover, those who call for equal rights for all people, including but not limited to women, minorities, and LBGT, are not Nazis because your rights are being deprived (and yes, I’m referring to the idiots who think that expanding marriage to gays and lesbians somehow reduces their own marriages or those who think that they should be allowed to not serve gays or minorities because of “religious freedoms” (which itself is code for being a hater).

Anyone who’s using the Nazi/Holocaust imagery for these kinds of issues is demeaning those words, which are necessarily powerful because they are so singular and unique in history - the systematic near elimination of an entire people across Europe in the span of a few years.

You know what are equivalents to the Nazi/Holocaust imagery? Genocides and democides in places like Rwanda, Congo, Cambodia, etc. Laws that eliminate rights of entire groups of people, such as the laws restricting gays from public activities in Uganda.

[deleted] How many times do we have to go down this route, and often with the same asshats - Barber being one who repeatedly goes there. It pisses me off to no end, and it’s extremely upsetting to those who actually lived through the Holocaust and those who know what the Holocaust and the Nazis actually did and not some warped worldview where everything is a Nazi/Holocaust waiting to happen.