I love Rabbi Ari Hier. I just can’t help it. He’s such a mentch.<\/p>\n
From DailyCaller.com<\/a>: Rabbi Ari Hier \u2014 the Campus Outreach Coordinator at a Holocaust research human rights organization \u2014 had the perfect response to the New York University (NYU) professor who has claimed that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is a contemporary Adolf Hitler.<\/p>\n Arthur Caplan, a left-leaning Bioethics professor at NYU, co-authored an article on Poynter (as well as tweets incessantly) about the \u201cdangerous\u201d and \u201cproto-Hitlerite\u201d Donald Trump \u2014 jumping on the bandwagon of tax-payer funded educators who equate Republican presidential candidates to Germany\u2019s radical mass-murderer and dictator.<\/p>\n Caplan, also NYU\u2019s Director of Medical Ethics, predicted that while it\u2019s easy to say Trump is not likely to win the support of the American public, 1930\u2019s Germany felt similarly about Hitler and he wound up rising to power.<\/p>\n \u201cCan Trump win? It seems unlikely,\u201d the article says. \u201cOf course that is what the media said about a funny-looking spewer of hate with an odd mustache who was dismissed as an awful public speaker and not a serious candidate in Germany in the 1930s.\u201d<\/p>\n …\u201cUnless a person is mean and cruel in a genocidal way,\u201d Rabbi Hier, an executive at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, told The Daily Caller in an interview, \u201cI think making that comparison detracts and takes away from the cruelty of Hitler.\u201d<\/p>\n The Simon Wiesenthal Center is a global human rights organization based in Los Angeles that studies and teaches the Holocaust and anti-Semitism in a contemporary context to confront hared towards Jews.<\/p>\n Rabbi Hier says that drawing analogies between Nazi Germany and other genocidal mass-murders is valid and understandable, but to compare Hitler to GOP presidential candidates shows not only gross insensitivity to Jews, it also shows a lack of common sense.<\/p>\n \u201cIt shows a lack of sensitivity, a lack of rigorous logic, a lack of the ability to analogize properly, and it certainly detracts from the Holocaust,\u201d he stated. \u201cBut I\u2019m not ready to say that they\u2019re making these analogies because they really hate Jews.\u201d<\/p>\n The rabbi affirmed that the misuse of analogies to Hitler are a widespread phenomenon that extend to professional arenas other than just politics. But Caplan and Goldrick-Rab\u2019s Twitter antics are more indicative of the professors than of the candidates they\u2019re chastising.<\/p>\n \u201cLook, when you call Donald Trump Hitler, that is such an egregious misuse of hyperbole and says more about the professor than it does about Donald Trump,\u201d Hier told The Daily Caller. \u201cIt just tells me how crazy that professor is.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cUntil Donald Trump starts shipping people to concentration camps, that\u2019s just an outrageous misuse of analogy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I love Rabbi Ari Hier. I just can’t help it. He’s such a mentch. From DailyCaller.com: Rabbi Ari Hier \u2014 the Campus Outreach Coordinator at a Holocaust research human rights organization \u2014 had the perfect response to the New York … Continue reading