Anyone else notice that the Wiesenthal Center always comes down against free speech? I believe comparing Arizona's fascist "your papers please" law is completely appropriate. When one compares something to the Nazis, why assume that the comparison is to everything the Nazis did? The Nazis didn't start off tossing people into ovens. What Arizona is doing is similar to what the Nazis started off doing and, on that basis, the comparison holds. Finally, why does one group of Americans think it has the right to tell all other Americans what language they use and what political means they should use? I think it is time for that community to STFU.
BTW, I think we should also start comparing Arizona's stand to Israeli apartheid.
RE: Jews: Stop Arizona-Nazis comparison
LOS ANGELES - Arizona's tough new law against illegal immigration has prompted furious protests and boycotts but Jewish groups say opponents who compare it with the rise of Nazi Germany are going too far.
"It diminishes the Holocaust," said Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder and dean of the Wiesenthal Center, an internationally known Holocaust studies center based in Los Angeles.
"Survivors and others are very upset about this," he said Friday. "When you exaggerate, it's very harmful to them when they know that their mothers and fathers were taken to the gas chambers without any recourse to the law. They lost children...
Up yours, Marvin Hier.
Friday, May 14, 2010
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