{"id":36267,"date":"2018-08-11T01:00:58","date_gmt":"2018-08-11T05:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=36267"},"modified":"2018-07-21T09:15:36","modified_gmt":"2018-07-21T13:15:36","slug":"qotd-reductio-ad-hitlerum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/08\/11\/qotd-reductio-ad-hitlerum\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: <em>Reductio ad Hitlerum<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The poverty of peoples\u2019 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.<\/p>\n<p>Ed West, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edwest.co.uk\/spectator-blogs\/its-absurd-to-compare-amber-rudds-immigration-speech-to-mein-kampf\/?doing_wp_cron=1478532651.9619519710540771484375\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;It\u2019s absurd to compare Amber Rudd\u2019s immigration speech to Mein Kampf&#8221;, <em>The Spectator<\/em><\/a>, 2016-11-07.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The poverty of peoples\u2019 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, &#8220;It\u2019s absurd to compare Amber Rudd\u2019s immigration speech to Mein Kampf&#8221;, The Spectator, 2016-11-07.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,53,41],"tags":[969],"class_list":["post-36267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-politics","category-quotations","tag-hitler"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9qX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36268,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36267\/revisions\/36268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}