As As you may or may not have noticed by the headline, I'm rather perturbed. It seems that the illustrious James Dobson has been called down by Jews for referring to the destruction of embryonic stem cells in comparison to the Jews killed in the Nazi holocaust.

Dr. Dobson is a good man. I'm sure his heart's in the right place. And I agree with him about the fetal stem cells, albeit not necessarily for the same reasons. But I do have a problem here. Everyone is referring to everyone else as a Nazi. Or they're referring to something as being as horrible as the holocaust. And maybe they're right. Certainly killing millions of children every year is a horrendous tragedy. What is currently happening in Dafur is an atrocity. The things that Hussein did are nearly universally accepted to be horrible.

But we have GOT to start laying off the whole Nazi/holocaust comparison. Jewish people are still fairly sensitive to it (with good reason), and the ONLY thing it does in this day and age is cause backlash against whatever cause you're trying to potray as NOT being Nazis. You mention the Nazis, and suddenly EVERYONE'S up in arms against you. Nothing good comes out of it when you refer to someone else as a Nazi.

So, people on the right AND people on the left, please listen to my plea and stop calling each other Nazis. Stop referring to Auschwitz unless you are talking about your history paper. Stop comparing how many of your people were killed to how many of the Jews were killed. And then, maybe we can get over being offended and start moving in the right direction.

Oh, and as a final note, from the way they run their blogs, I suspect the following people of being Nazis:

Glenn Reynolds
Ace
Rusty Shackleford
Bill Indrolino
Hugh Hewitt
The Entire Staff at Wizbang Blog

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