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DissidentRage wrote

Yes. We took our 13 year-old daughter to the holocaust museum in DC. She noted the similarities between the current political climate in the US to the rhetoric, images and actions precipitating the rise of German fascism. She compared book burning to the fight to dismantle the Internet and noticed how much the German government harped on its need for law and order. She also noticed that a lot of the first victims were political enemies, including leftists who openly fought them, and that the US was at best ambivalent toward the plight of jews, turning back many who came to our shores to escape. Toward the end she took a picture of Niemöller's poem and asked me to buy her a pin of a pink triangle, representing the badges the Nazis gave to homosexuals.

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