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Every time I’m tempted to actually get involved in the left-wing causes I support, I read something like this.

You’re saying there’s no difference between my Mom and Dad, and the Nazis. There’s no difference between my sister and the Nazis. There’s no difference between my in-laws and the Nazis.

Seriously. This is why people hate the Democrats, even though they agree with them in most issues.

I don’t care if we agree on everything. I’d never vote for someone who said the things you just did about my family.

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Do you expect that the Nazis were uniquely evil? What trends in German society made them 'evil' that we lack?

Ordinary people are capable of great evil when they limit their sphere of empathy.

Most of the people are neither heroes nor monsters. The atrocities committed by the Nazis were committed by a minority of the population and ignored or tolerated by the majority of folks like your family.

I am deeply sorry that your family has fallen in line behind evil and hate because they simply cannot tell the difference between evil that tells them what they want to hear and decency that tells them things that make them uncomfortable. For you I hope that their innate quality as human beings enables them someday to see through the con and I hope you continue to love them regardless for the qualities they possess that are good and worthy. I don't hate you and I don't hate your family.

Your condescension speaks volumes.

How is that condescension? Odds are, iin Nazi Germany, everyone would have been a passive observer.

If your mom and your dad sincerely believe in the QAnon conspiracy, it doesn't make them inherently inferior people, but yes that's an absolutely abhorrent belief that is impossible not to compare to these situations.

But odds are most of us would be functionally the same by then.

I’m the only family who has heard of QAnon. They have no idea who she is.

You weren’t comparing QAnon supporters to Nazis. You were comparing Trump supporters to Nazis.

> There is little difference in my mind between Hitlers supporters in the 30s and Trumps supporters in the 2020s and in the modern day Republican party if you aren't a Trump supporter you aren't welcome near anywhere.

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