Alec Baldwin has a suggestion for what to do with President Trump, and it isn’t subtle.
“Bury Trump in a Nazi graveyard and put swastika on his grave,” the actor wrote on Twitter.
As of this writing, the comment got a measly 2,000 likes from his 1 million Twitter followers, so many of his fans apparently don’t agree with the sentiment.
But here’s the point: comparing Trump to a Nazi is extraordinarily belittling to Holocaust victims, and it demonstrates a stunning ignorance of history. And the fact that Baldwin can casually make such an offensive, vile, and wildly flawed comparison without suffering blow back shows just how widely that kind of thinking is accepted by Hollywood and those on the Left.
Baldwin was not in the movie “Schindler’s List.” Maybe if he was, he would have more of an understanding of what life under the Nazi regime was like.
There’s also a lesson in the movie that Baldwin could learn. During the war, German industrialist and Nazi Party member Oskar Schindler becomes appalled at what is happening, and he works to thwart the war effort. There’s a scene at the end of the movie where Schindler, after having already given up most of his wealth to save hundreds of Jews from extermination, breaks down crying at the realization that he could have done more and saved more lives had he parted with more of his possessions.
There are literal concentration camps in China, today in 2020, where minority Uighurs are being detained and subjected to horrific human rights abuses. If Baldwin wanted to, he could use some of his immense wealth generated from playing make-believe in movies and on TV to help those who are being oppressed by an authoritarian regime, instead of just spouting off on Twitter.
Of course, there’s a next logical conclusion: if Trump is a literal Nazi, then his supporters must be Nazi sympathizers…
Comedian Jena Friedman calls Trump voters “Nazi sympathizers”
The day after the 2020 presidential election, comedian Jena Friedman wrote on Twitter that “I didn’t realize that roughly 1/3 of Americans are Nazi sympathizers” in reference to people who voted for Trump. It wasn’t a joke; her twitter feed was filled with disparaging remarks about Trump voters.
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The tweets have since been deleted en masse, but some can still be found on the Internet Archive:
(In response to a user who said that she was low-balling, Friedman explained that she was factoring in children and non-voters when she pegged the fraction at one-third.)
It’s one thing to disagree with or dislike a politician; it’s another to assail anyone who votes for that person as a literal Nazi sympathizer. Doing that shows complete disdain for fellow citizens.
A functioning democracy depends on citizens respecting one another even if they disagree politically, otherwise there is no reason for the losing side to peacefully accept an electoral defeat.
Jena Friedman’s characterization of 1/3 of America as Nazi sympathizers is an example of what’s wrong with America.
Friedman is a Daily Show with Jon Stewart alum and she was a writer on “Borat 2.”
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UNDERRATED MOVIE RECOMMENDATION:
HBO’s “Conspiracy” tells the story of the 1942 Wannsee Conference where high-ranking Nazi Party and government officials met to discuss the “Final Solution.” It stars Kenneth Branagh (Dunkirk, Murder on the Orient Express, Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, Valkyrie) and Stanley Tucci (Spotlight, The Hunger Games, Margin Call, The Lovely Bones).
Alex Alex you nitwit how is your golddigging Spanish wife Hilarious , well she fooled only you idiot ,as for a fascist and Nazi you and your act more the part , way to much hate Alex , oh talk to your kid ,or should i say scream at them. //////and as for Jena ,look in the mirror fraulein,it is people like you who are confused ,that back Nazi Marxist Communist .what ever you like to call your selves
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