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Originally Posted by Charlatan
I think Bush is has been using a lot of the tactics of someone like Hitler BUT, the USA in this day and age is a very different place from Wiemar Germany.
Not only are people much more media savvy they are much more versed in democracy... I think the teacher made a very facile comparison when it comes down to it.
I don't think it was a suspension offence. His principal should have taken him to task about balance in his lectures but that's about it (unless he'd been warned before).
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My grandfather actually lived through WWII as a young man; he was imprisoned by the Nazis in a work camp in Germany where he welded locomotives for the war.
Yet even he, who had been directly affected by Hitler's regime, compared Bush's actions to some of those Hitler took--especially the PATRIOT Act. He was deeply concerned about the path the United States was taking when George W. Bush came to power. Yet I think as time went on he came to realize the United States was not as weak as Weimar Germany.
A free press, freedom of speech, and freedom of assembly can make all the difference.
I don't think it trivializes what Hitler did. I don't think anything could though.
As for the teacher--I think he must have been on his second warning if he did get suspended. Given the fact that most school districts have the unions breathing down their necks, most do not suspend lightly.