Originally Posted by
stockmanjr
When people are getting rounded up and being put into labor camps or when others are sent to special security lines because of their race/religion then your argument is valid. I'm Jewish and I am completely and utterly offended by your comparisons. I know your going to say that it's about the attitude but let's face it you can complain to your airline or the TSA directly. The people in you used in your comparison had no voice..
Do you think it was suddenly, one day, someone woke up, and said "wow, let's send all the people to concentration camps!" and it became so?
No, it was a slow, methodical and long process of people not caring about justice, freedom for all, and the authorities slowly eroding people's rights before this was possible.
When you forget that it was decades of indifference from the populace, and the slow erosion of people's rights, that led to the tragedies of the Holocaust, you have done your people a huge disfavor.
You allow yourself to be moved by arguments that "nothing equates to the Holocaust", which while true, it is also not irrelevant to note that the current erosion of freedoms to travel and rights to be free of abuses of government can lead to future tragedies.
It all happens one step at a time. Or will it be only valid once we are stripped of some important freedoms, such as the "redefinition of privacy" as recently noted by a government official, and once we are powerless to prevent tragedies, will you agree that the comparisons are somewhat valid?
I too have Jewish relatives, and I am offended that you're indifferent to the steps and attitudes that led to the Holocaust in the first place. That is very tragic in my view.