Posted on 12/25/2020 3:33:05 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
In a Washington Post editorial published Wednesday, authors Deborah E. Lipstadt and Norman Eisen argue for the radical comparison of challenging recent election results with denying that a Nazi Holocaust, the “best-documented genocide in the world,” ever occurred.
The essay, titled “Denying the Holocaust threatens democracy. So does denying the election results,” makes several comparisons while suggesting how to combat such “denial.”
Claiming to have “learned the hard way” to take Holocaust denial seriously, the authors state they have “watched with alarm the birth of another powerful disinformation mythology,” referring to the “false conviction pushed by Trump and his enablers” that the recent election was “stolen.”
“Call it democracy denial,” the editorial suggests.
Noting that such a comparison is highly extreme, the authors assure readers that it was not made “lightly.”
“As students of history, we do not make this comparison lightly,” they wrote.
The pair also sought to associate the president’s challenge of election results with racism, claiming that “[the president] and his cohort are openly targeting strongly minority jurisdictions with their false claims.”
Another comparison to Holocaust denial is presented in the magnitude of “falsehoods.”
“Also like the denial of the Holocaust, the sheer scale of Trump’s electoral falsehoods is staggering,” they wrote.
After assuring the reader that “Trump is not, of course, Adolf Hitler,” the authors state that both “adopted the propaganda technique of the big lie” before quoting Hitler to prove so.
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if you’re an election judge in a suspect swing state, you would seem to be uniquely situation to expose the fraud mechanism.
The Washington Post bunch claim to be “journalists”. I vehemently deny that they are journalists. BTW, did the WaPo cover the Holocaust as well as their cohorts at the NYT?
Correction. The NYT denied the Holodomor in the 1930’s. That was the murderous campaign against the peasantry in the Ukraine. The Holocaust against the Jews did not start until about 1940.
Truth.
Wonder how long before “president” CGWhore signs legislation making it a Federal felony to deny the 2020 “election”...
Does the Post realize how much integrity they have lost?
Does the Post realize how much integrity they have lost?
Hard to lose what (you) never had.
I recall one side claiming the russians hacked the elections for last 4 years. So forgive me if I don’t take their opinions seriously when it comes to Trump talking about obvious election fraud.
Yeah, it’s just like the holocaust./s
Yep. More like denying election fraud is like denying the holocaust.
He served as a counsel for the Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee during the impeachment process of President Donald J. Trump in 2020.
mystery note passed to Pence
https://twitter.com/hollyjayewiley/status/1340896174031724546
L lin wood is calling pence a traitor for some reason
From 2007 to 2009, Eisen was active in the presidential campaign of his law school classmate Barack Obama before joining the transition team of then-President-elect Obama as deputy counsel.
On January 20, 2009, Obama named him Special Counsel for Ethics and Government Reform in the White House.
Eisen joined the Brookings Institution as a Visiting Fellow in September 2014. He is now a Senior Fellow in their Governance Studies program. At Brookings he has contributed to reports on open government, the emoluments clause, presidential obstruction of justice, and anti-corruption efforts in the natural resource sector. A prolific writer, he often contributes [lefty] op-ed pieces to The New York Times, The Washington Post, Politico, USA Today, and other national publications.
Your post has nothing to do with this thread.
[drinking again?]
this thread is about the election
so yes, it does have to do with this thread
so who are you backing
Pence or L Lin Wood?
They never stop the propaganda BS. I guess all the RATS and Hillary denied the Holocaust the last 4 years.
oopsies, they forgot all about that didn’t they?
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