Donald Trump is controversial, but never belittle the evil that was done by Hitler by comparing him to US President Donald Trump. 

I really don’t love posting about politics. It’s something I usually refrain from doing at all costs. But in recent events, there’s been a certain issue that keeps popping up that as a Jewish girl hits really close to home for me.

Donald Trump is a massive controversy. Not everyone you meet is going to hate him, and not everyone is going to like him. Each individual is entitled to their own opinion about him.

And you can disagree with Trump. It’s your prerogative to find his ideals and past statements to be shockingly offensive and utterly repulsive. You are free to spend every waking moment fighting for the feminist movement.

But to have the audacity, to have such pure, blind, and unadulterated hatred for a man, to compare him and his political campaign to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party? That is where the line is finally being crossed.

Hitler, the man responsible for organizing the deaths of over 12 million people. The man responsible for unspeakable atrocities committed against so many ethnic groups. The man who’s goal was to rid not only Germany but the entire world of anyone who did not fit his picture of a perfect human. The man who executed hundreds of thousands of innocent men, women, and children, for being mentally ill, gay, Jewish, a gypsy, being in his way, or for having the slightest resemblance to any of the above.

For a person to dare compare Donald Trump to that man? To equate them and place them on the same level as if they were the same? To suggest that Trump and Hitler are at par with their sins?

By doing this, you are disrespecting each and every murder, each heinous crime that Hitler committed. You are reducing the pain and suffering of something as large as the holocaust to that of hearing a man make mere statements. The horrific events that took place in the holocaust are being weighted against a man who has no concrete and undisputedly factual crimes for which he should be held responsible except for the impact of his words.

He has not taken any lives. He has not tortured, nor maimed. And yet you put these men up against each other, as though they are equally atrocious.

Are his words really as heinous as the mass murder of millions to you?

Would those who had witnessed, suffered, fought, and survived the unforgivable actions of Adolf Hitler, agree that Donald Trump is comparable to that man?

Do They Understand the Magnitute of their Accusations?

I hope that those who are likening Trump to the leader of the Nazi Party have never suffered the aftermath of Hitler’s time in power. That they did not have grandparents or great grandparents that died or suffered at the hands of the Germans. That they have not known annihilation and suffering in its ugliest and fullest forms. Nor do they understand what it is like, when someone attempts to wipe you and your people off the face of this earth and out of existence. Their brothers and sisters, their nation, were not executed mercilessly, shaved bald and shoved up in barracks to starve, stripped down to their skin and bones robbed of everything they had and sent to die, and their legacy and life reduced to a number, not even a name.

I’m going to hope that they do not understand the magnitude of their accusations. That they do not understand that with each time they liken Donald Trump to that man, they are desecrating the names of my family that had the misfortune of living in the time of Hitler. My family who died and suffered endlessly at his hands.

There are those that argue that he is on the same path. They say that Trump is exhibiting the same kind of behaviour as Hitler in the early stages. Their justification for the comparison is that they hope to prevent a similar outcome.

So powerful is your hate that you forget a key point in the universal declaration of human rights: innocent until proven guilty. Until Donald Trump begins issuing official instructions to start rounding up men and women and children and hauling them off to their deaths; Until Donald Trump declares he wishes to rid the earth of impure human races; Until he has erected ghettos and death camps and gas chambers – Donald Trump does not warrant a comparison to Hitler.

Hate the new president all you want. Call him a misogynist, a bigot, disrespectful, ignorant, sexist, offensive. Protest as loudly and as boldly as you please. Beat your chests, be nasty women, be indignant and outraged at your lack of inequality. If that is what you feel must be done, then go ahead and do it.

But do not belittle the evil that was done by Hitler. Trump, a man who has been in the public eye for decades and who has not committed any proven criminal offences is not equal to the man who organized a genocide of millions, the man who made it his mission to purge the earth of those who are different. His supporters are not the Nazi officers who oversaw my people digging their own graves and shooting them so they can lay in it. Until Donald Trump rounds up tens of millions of people, dehumanizes, starves, mutilates, and murders them, he will not in any way shape or form, be the new Hitler. Until anyone commits the same outrageous crimes, they are not akin to Hitler.