![]() ![]() When conducted with integrity and rigor, the study of history raises more questions than answers. ![]() This oversimplified approach to complex history is dangerous. Worse, it allows it to spread more widely and quickly. And the current environment of rapid fire online communication and viral memes lends itself particularly well to this sort of sloppy analogizing. evil it is the epithet to end all epithets. The Holocaust has become shorthand for good vs. This trend is far from new, but it is escalating at a disturbing rate in increasingly polarized times. The takedown is so common that it’s even earned its own term, reductio ad Hitlerum. American politicians from across the ideological spectrum, influential media figures, and ordinary people on social media casually use Holocaust terminology to bash anyone or any policy with which they disagree. I’m talking about folks being labeled as Nazis, Hitler, Gestapo, Goering - take your pick - by their political opponents. Edna Friedberg, Ph.D., is a historian in the Museum’s William Levine Family Institute for Holocaust Education. ![]()
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