{"id":125697,"date":"2021-02-12T12:40:17","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T17:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=125697"},"modified":"2021-02-12T13:13:35","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T18:13:35","slug":"the-holocaust-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-holocaust-law\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u2018Holocaust Law\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">6<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-holocaust-law%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=125697&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-89277106-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>In terms of human loss, the Holocaust is \u2014 unquestionably \u2014 the worst event in the history of the Jewish people. Given its history, that\u2019s saying something.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Driven by the unimaginable evil of Nazi Germany, the Holocaust resulted in the systematic murder of an estimated six million Jews, including one million children, eradicating approximately two-thirds of the Jewish population of Europe. Often ignored are the additional three million ethnic Poles similarly murdered by the Nazis, amounting to between 6% and 10% of the total Polish gentile population. Three million of the six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust were also Polish.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In 1994, Mike Godwin first defined \u201cGodwin\u2019s rule of Hitler analogies\u201d \u2014 otherwise known as Godwin\u2019s law \u2014 which states, \u201cAs an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.\u201d This was then used to argue that the online discussion was effectively over once such a comparison was made.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Unfortunately, this Internet-based rule never seemed to make it into the mainstream, with <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/467148-orourke-compares-trump-to-nazi-leader\">comments<\/a> like Democratic presidential candidate Robert \u201cBeto\u201d O\u2019Rourke\u2019s \u201c<\/span><span>Outside of the Third Reich, give me another example of a Western leader who has called people of one faith inherently defective or dangerous or disqualified from being successful in that country<\/span><span>,\u201d barely causing a blip on our society\u2019s \u201chistorical hyperbole\u201d radar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Such absurd and historically ignorant hyperbole is the result of years of intentional association between conservatism and Nazism, as<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/10-famous-liberals-whove-made-the-nazi-comparison-but-werent-canceled\"><span>described<\/span><\/a> <span>by Larry Elder in 2016.<\/span> <span>However, the days of inaccurate comparisons to the Nazi party are slowly being replaced by one far worse \u2014 comparisons to the Holocaust.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In recent years, the Holocaust has become the standard fill-in for any \u201cbad thing\u201d while making a damning political comparison. In June 2018, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/06\/18\/politics\/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-concentration-camps-migrants-detention\/index.html\">compared<\/a> the detention of illegal immigrants at the southern border between the United States and Mexico to Nazi-era \u201cconcentration camps,\u201d directly invoking \u201cNever Again,\u201d the phrase used to summarize the Jewish community\u2019s attitude toward any threat of future genocide. Singer Linda Ronstadt compared Trump\u2019s immigration policies to that of Hitler under Nazi Germany,<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/linda-ronstadt-trump-hitler-history-same-1479845\"><span>saying<\/span><\/a> <span>\u201cIt\u2019s going to be like Hitler, and the Mexicans are the new Jews.\u201d MSNBC host<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/msnbc-host-invokes-nazi-comparison-to-describe-potential-trump-administration-deportation-policy\/\"><span>compared<\/span><\/a> <span>U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to Nazis in The Holocaust, casting immigrants as Jews: \u201cThey are running just like the Jews ran from the Nazis, just like so many other groups are running from persecutions for safety.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>While figures on the Left are free to make such comparisons without fear of consequence, conservatives who make the same assertions are immediately \u201ccanceled.\u201d The most recent example is Gina Carano \u2014 known for her character on Disney\u2019s <em>The Mandalorian<\/em> \u2014 who shared a screenshot on her Instagram account which read:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em><span>Jews were beaten in the streets, not by Nazi soldiers but by their neighbors\u2026even by children.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span>\u201cBecause history is edited, most people today don\u2019t realize that to get to the point where Nazi soldiers could easily round up thousands of Jews, the government first made their own neighbors hate them simply for being Jews. How is that any different from hating someone for their political views?\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>While she faces accusations of bigotry and anti-Semitism, it\u2019s important to see such comments for what they are \u2014 <em>overwrought and historically inaccurate hyperbole in the pursuit of political gain<\/em>. Notably, the same political gain sought by Leftists who compare conservatives to Hitler and immigrants to Jews as freely as they breathe or blink.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>With this in mind, we need a new Godwin\u2019s law, which informally legislates against the use of the Holocaust to make comparatively petty political statements. Let\u2019s call this the \u201cHolocaust Law:\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em><span>Unless the person or event being criticized is demonstrably guilty of enforcing the same physical \u2014 not rhetorical, metaphorical or hypothetical \u2014 actions as Nazi Germany, resulting in the forced detention or murder of millions of civilians due to personal characteristics, they are not to be compared to the Holocaust.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Following the \u201cHolocaust Law,\u201d the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s forced internment of a reported million Uighur Muslims in the Xinjiang province is \u201clike the Holocaust.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Preventing illegal immigrants from crossing the border is not.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Ian Haworth is an Editor and Writer for The Daily Wire. Follow him on Twitter at&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ighaworth\"><em>@ighaworth<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/em>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In terms of human loss, the Holocaust is \u2014 unquestionably \u2014 the worst event in the history of the Jewish people. Given its history, that\u2019s saying something. 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