In the past couple weeks on social media, Canadian PM Justin Trudeau has been referred to as Vladimir Poutine, Mooselini, and even North Pol Pot. Additionally, David Frum is among those who think comparing Trudeau to Adolph Hitler are completely out of line:
If you're comparing Justin Trudeau to Adolph Hitler … well congratulations to you on leading a life so safe, so pleasant, with such abundant meals and comfortable beds that you have lost the ability even to *imagine* what fear, persecution, suffering, and pain would feel like
— David Frum (@davidfrum) February 17, 2022
Seriously? Allow Glenn Greenwald to roll his eyes a bit:
From the person who wrote a cover story in the Atlantic strongly implying that Trump was the New Hitler.https://t.co/YeQTNQn0Wq https://t.co/WG8ajaiClW
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) February 17, 2022
https://twitter.com/GenBiotics/status/1494351557235781635
We don’t recall Frum’s explanation being used to explain why it’s wrong to compare certain Republicans to fascists, Hitler or any other horrible totalitarians in history.
You said the same about those comparing Trump, Romney, McCain and Bush to Hitler, right? https://t.co/sNNoI5fFTb
— Mark Noonan (@Mark_E_Noonan) February 17, 2022
No, not really:
Bruh. pic.twitter.com/NiJt3hHTv3
— Blame Big Government (@BlameBigGovt) February 17, 2022
— Max (@MaxNordau) February 17, 2022
Shot // Chaser
h/t @BlameBigGovt pic.twitter.com/RCV8a3oU51
— Fusilli Spock (@awstar11) February 17, 2022
— Sean Medlock (@Sean_Medlock) February 17, 2022
Is this you? https://t.co/7XmHVUSW3N pic.twitter.com/Y4BtmtBreZ
— Noam Blum (@neontaster) February 17, 2022
Comparisons the other way around are apparently perfectly acceptable:
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Justin Trudeau equating truckers to Nazis is cool though. https://t.co/EIMmIekIP6
— Jon Gabriel (@exjon) February 17, 2022
Yesterday Trudeau even said a Jewish member of Parliament was among conservatives who “stand with people who wave swastikas.”
Sure thing, hack. https://t.co/aV6k2X35zD
— Physics Geek (@physicsgeek) February 17, 2022
I smell a @DefiantLs tweet…
— NewEnglandDevil (@NewEnglandDevil) February 17, 2022
It’s certainly worthy of some attention from Defiant L’s!
And of course it’s not just Frum:
— sarainitaly 🌷🐰🐥 (@sarainitaly) February 17, 2022
— sarainitaly 🌷🐰🐥 (@sarainitaly) February 17, 2022
— sarainitaly 🌷🐰🐥 (@sarainitaly) February 17, 2022
— sarainitaly 🌷🐰🐥 (@sarainitaly) February 17, 2022
The Left loves to compare everything to Hitler, until they don't… and let's not forget the non-stop 'Bushitler' comparisons, especially from msnbc. https://t.co/u943mqTG1W pic.twitter.com/gc2uAIHYtW
— sarainitaly 🌷🐰🐥 (@sarainitaly) February 17, 2022
It’s OK when they do it.