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Nazi comparisons gibberish

Thu., Jan. 5, 2017

Since the presidential election, The Spokesman has published an avalanche of anti-Trump letters, including some that compare the president-elect and his supporters to Hitler and the Nazis, necessarily invoking the Holocaust.

Nothing the president-elect or his supporters has done or said compares to the Holocaust, one of the most horrific crimes in human history. The comparison of the president-elect or his supporters to genocidal murderers is histrionic gibberish and premeditated hate speech. It also trivializes the Holocaust, thereby insulting its victims.

Mike Wolfe

Spokane

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