A Reminder why you shouldn't equate the posiiton of Jews in Germany with illegal migrants.
Per Chatgpt...
Many people—including Jewish organizations and historians—argue that this comparison is misleading and can slide into antisemitic tropes, even when that isn’t the speaker’s intent. The concerns usually fall into several overlapping reasons:
1. It trivializes the unique persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany
Jewish citizens of Germany were:
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Native-born citizens with full legal status
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Systematically stripped of rights because of who they were, not what they did
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Targeted under a state ideology explicitly aimed at elimination, culminating in genocide
By contrast, migrants in the U.S.:
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Are not targeted for extermination
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Are subject to immigration law, which—however harsh or contested—is not based on racial extermination or biological ideology
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Have access to courts, advocacy, and constitutional protections (even if imperfectly applied)
Equating the two can minimize the unprecedented nature of the Holocaust and the ideology behind it.
2. It echoes a classic antisemitic inversion
A longstanding antisemitic trope is role reversal, where Jews are recast as oppressors and non-Jews as Holocaust-era victims. Comparing U.S. immigration enforcement to Nazi treatment of Jews can:
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Implicitly suggest that Jews (or a “Jewish state” or “Jewish interests”) are now doing to others what was done to them
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Flatten moral distinctions in a way that fuels resentment rather than understanding
This kind of inversion is widely criticized by Jewish scholars and groups because it repackages antisemitic narratives in contemporary language.
3. It erases citizenship and legal reality
German Jews were citizens first, Jews second—and were persecuted despite compliance with the law.
Migrants, by definition, are defined by cross-border movement and legal status, not ethnicity or religion. Treating these situations as analogous:
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Obscures the difference between identity-based persecution and status-based regulation
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Misleads audiences about what actually happened in 1930s–40s Germany
This historical flattening undermines serious discussion of both immigration policy and antisemitism.
4. It instrumentalizes Jewish trauma for political argument
Many Jews object not only because the analogy is inaccurate, but because it:
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Uses the Holocaust as a rhetorical weapon rather than a historical reality
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Treats Jewish suffering as a universal metaphor, detached from Jewish history
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Encourages “moral shock” instead of careful reasoning
This can feel exploitative, especially when Jews themselves object to the comparison.
5. It discourages honest critique of immigration policy
Ironically, the analogy can weaken legitimate criticism of U.S. immigration enforcement by:
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Inviting backlash and dismissal
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Shifting focus from concrete policy harms to Holocaust debates
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Alienating Jewish allies who might otherwise support reform
Strong arguments about migrant treatment stand on their own without invoking Nazi analogies.
Bottom line
Comparing Jewish citizens of Nazi Germany to migrants in the United States is misleading because it:
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Confuses genocide with law enforcement
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Citizenship-based persecution with immigration regulation
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Identity with legal status
It is often seen as “kind of antisemitic” not because it criticizes U.S. policy, but because it distorts Jewish history, repurposes Jewish trauma, and echoes antisemitic narrative patterns, even if unintentionally.
If you want, I can also explain how to criticize immigration policy forcefully without triggering these concerns, or point to statements from Jewish organizations explaining why they reject Holocaust analogies.
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Jews in Germany were not citizens, not criminals there illegally. Conflating the two minimizes the horror of what the German government did.
I can't wait for the explanation on this one...
Yes, it is good to remind people that what is happening is not a Holocaust, genocide, or even a diaspora. Some of the overwrought left-wing rhetoric is not anchored in reality. By the same token, overblown national security claims are not less fantastical than claiming a Holocaust.
We have been forced to defend diametrically opposing positions: keep them all out - or - let them all in. Forest Gump would tell us "stupid is as stupid does". Rational people understand there is a middle ground and that is what we should be striving for.
At this point rational people can agree that immigration laws of the United States have been abused. We may differ in opinion about the degree of abuse or purpose of the abuse but nevertheless rational people cannot ignore the abuse. We can no longer deny that our immigration system is broken. And abuse of that broken system is causing as much harm to the US as it provides benefit.
We should also be keenly aware that our political system is attempting to use immigration to concentrate authority in the Federal government and divide the American people. Enforcing immigration laws has now become a weapon used against political opponents. The political power struggle has resulted in violence on our streets (by both sides), inhumane treatment of people (immigrants and citizens), and an expansion of unfettered Federal authority granted immunity. The politicization of law enforcement is un-American. Paramilitary forces with unlimited authority deployed to neighborhoods violates the founding principles of the Constitution, Bill of Rights, and American ideals.
What is happening is TRUMP's full-on assault on the United States Constitution, our government, and its history, which he never reads, is his pathway to CHAOS, for this LUNATIC to become KING OF AMERICA, CANADA, GREENLAND, and let not forget his plan for CUBA!
Trump must go!
"We are not bad as Nazis", is not a selling point!
Trump, or as I prefer to call the Orange Pig, as "Dirty Diaper Donnie" because he SHAT his Depends constantly, stinking up the place, any place, wherever this MONSTER may be.
Comparing favorably to the Nazis is a poor endorsement. Brutality is still wrong. Ignoring our Constitution is still wrong.
Are we doing better than the Nazis? So far, yes, on the whole. But the similarities are enough that we at least have debates over it. That should, at minimum, be a cause for concern and reflection, but so far, that has not been the result.
The defenders of the Trump regime are more than happy to say that people who oppose him are guilty of comparing the administrations tactics to Nazism. It gives them hope so to speak.
I have not seen anyone of any note compare immigrants in America to Jews in Nazi Germany, although I'm sure there are some unimportant people saying so.
We have a guy on here regularly saying that progressives support what Communist dictators from the 20th century did.
I have not seen anyone of any note compare immigrants in America to Jews in Nazi Germany, although I'm sure there are some unimportant people saying so.
Being sent to Cecot is pretty damn close. It’s a death camp by any reasonable standard.
Are you sure it's only ONE guy? If so, the votes up of such a guy would indicate that there really is MORE than "ONE".
Whether it is one or 30 million, Trump must be IMPEACHED. Our rich REPUBLICAN SENATORS have been kissing the ring of the ORANGE BEAST, so they too might become uber rich by cuddling up to the WORST PRESIDENT, AND THE WORST PERSON ON THE FACE OF AMERICA.
Trump is no one's friend.
He is a sick, self-obsessed, vindictive "Wannabe Dictator"!
Be careful, Donnie is halfway there! He is a DICK!
It is a foreshadowing! But, if we do not clip the ORANGE BEAST desires, we are a cooked and finished NATION of Cowards.
CALL YOUR SENATOR & REPRESENTATIVE and demand, do not ask, that they dare to SAVE AMERICA, OR GO DOWN WITH THE SHIP!
FOLKS, it is time to save yourself, your loved ones, and this NATION from the most defyal POS that ever walked the EARTH!
Trump is only interested in himself!
You, and your loved ones, are many times more likely to be killed by an illegal alien than ICE.
But of course, progressives won't care about you or your loved ones if that happens......
Illegitimate comparison. You, and your loved ones, are more than twice as likely to be killed by an American citizen as an undocumented alien. But still, by all means, continue to gaslight the community.