Quotulatiousness

August 11, 2018

QotD: Reductio ad Hitlerum

Filed under: Britain, Politics, Quotations — Tags: — Nicholas @ 01:00

The poverty of peoples’ collective memory and imagination is such that the first minute any politician strays from the path of universalism, commentators reach for the most shocking (and only) historical comparison they can think of.

Ed West, “It’s absurd to compare Amber Rudd’s immigration speech to Mein Kampf”, The Spectator, 2016-11-07.

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