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by 0des 1492 days ago
I think they mean that Canadians are usually more demure and polite than to stoop to the level of trivializing one of recent-history's worst atrocities to express political/ideological discontent.

tbh, I can't stand callout culture, but I wish this would get called out more often. What type of psychological damage is being done to jews by turning their painful history into a talking point, or conversational force multiplier? You don't see people do that about African slavery or other atrocities, so why compare everything to Hitler? It's ugly.

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“Modern Jim Crow” is an unfortunately regular occurrence in American political dialog.
> You don't see people do that about African slavery or other atrocities

Sort of simultaneously trivialises all those too though, by implication - 'I mean sure they're bad, but no Hitler'.