Thread: Fanning the Flames: Sarah Silverman Dresses as Hitler to Mock... Guess Who?

3.14.2016 Tiffany Gabbay

And we wonder why people are ready to riot over Trump.

Ah, right, we get it. Because you're "Jewish" you think it's perfectly fine to compare GOP presidential contender Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler, and to impersonate the fuhrer himself while attempting to pass it off as intelligent humor.

Alleged comedienne Sarah Silverman, dressed as Hitler, appeared on Thursday's late night show with Conan O’Brien in a failed attempt to capitalize on the media's obsession with equating the GOP frontrunner with the most evil man in history.

I have news for Sarah Silverman: it isn't fine to compare any lawmaker or presidential candidateoperatingwithin our U.S. political system to Adolf Hitler. You aren't funny. You are not even original. And the fact that you are Jewish does not give you a free pass.

As a rule, I tend not to skewer comedians (or alleged comedians). They are often political, and often unfunny. And that's fine. I don't have to agree with them. The greater issue here is the psychosis currently gripping media, celebrity, and even fellow conservatives when it comes to the topic of Donald Trump.

This is dangerous ground on which to tread and reminds me of the knee-jerk reactions leftists had in crying "Racist!" anytime a person opposed Barack Obama on the basis of substance. So now Trump can be smeared as Hitler in much the same way, and anyone who supports him can be shamed as a person who "would have helped Hitler carry out the Holocaust."

And this is part of what led to the riotous protests at the Trump rally in Chicago.

Does Donald Trump bear responsibility for the way he carries himself? Yes. But the media, along with the #NeverTrump crowd, conveniently leave out context and incite even more animus than was there to begin with.

During several Trump rallies, aggressive -- not peaceful -- protesters have showed up to heckle Trump, his supporters, and attempted to disrupt these gatherings. Trump was reacting not to peaceful protesters, but to rabble rousers. Were some of the things he said in response to these agitators presidential? Perhaps not. But context in reporting and refraining from comparing Trump to Hitler on every news broadcast and print article would have been essential to quelling the rising tensions.

The truth is that those who protested Trump in Chicago are the same kind of people who needed no provocation at all to riot in Ferguson and in Baltimore and just about every other time and place in which they've tried to shut down free speech with aggression and militancy. This is the real fascism on display, not Trump.

Conservatives, including other GOP candidates, who dislike Trump and wish to distance themselves from his rhetoric should think twice before embarking on the slippery slope of blaming Trump for the thuggery that occurred in Chicago on Friday. They should also look to their role in fanning the flames with every Trump-Hitler reference they make. This is not a road we want to go down. And if we do, there might not be a way of turning back.

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