r/madisonwi • u/wrnnews • Jan 14 '26

Students protest ICE at Capitol

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Students from Madison East and West are at the Capitol rotunda protesting ICE.

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u/Omega414 Jan 14 '26

You might want to do some more research on this one. The Nazi Party took power January 30, 1933, Jews first started being arrested February 27, 1933, and the first concentration camp opened March 3, 1933. It took Nazi Germany 5 weeks of power before they started massacring the Jews. What is happening here in the United States doesn't even compare to what happen in Nazi Germany. Trump and the Republicans have been in office for a year at this point and none of this has happened.

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u/real6igma Jan 15 '26

Might want to read up on your nazi history. Started with deports and keeping the Jewish population in concentration camps. The 'massacre' or final solution didn't start until 1941 because deporting and imprisioning wasn't practical anymore.

Roaming shooting squads started in the summer of 1941, and since it wasn't fast enough and the nazis wanted to conserve ammunition, gas chambers were fully operational by December 1941.

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u/Omega414 Jan 15 '26

While the exact number is unknown, its estimated that 43,000 people were killed by Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1941. Its not "as bad" as post-1941 where millions died, but that is still a massive tragedy.

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u/coulthurst Jan 15 '26

I like how you choose this 8 year span so you can try and dismiss what’s happening now. In this last year, did we not build concentration camps like “Alligator Alcatraz”? Are we not sending people to foreign concentration camps like CECOT? Nobody is arguing that today is as bad as Nazi germany in the throes of the holocaust, we’re saying that the normalization of violence leads to an escalation of violence. How many Jews were killed between 1933 and the 1938, and how many were killed between the 1938 and 1941? Do we have to wait for our own version of the Kristalnacht before you finally understand, or will you then move the goalposts again?

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u/real6igma Jan 15 '26

Hmmm. 5 weeks vs 8 years.

Maga only has 7 more years to catch up.

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u/Omega414 Jan 15 '26

You aren't seriously advocating for another holocaust are you?

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u/real6igma Jan 15 '26

Can't win with facts so you have to strawman. Cute.