Idaho Statesman | August 20, 2021 | By Scott McIntosh
(Excerpt) In a previous editorial, I spoke with the director of the Holocaust Center for Humanity about why these comparisons are so damaging to the effort to remember what the Holocaust was, so that we may learn from that atrocity and prevent it from ever happening again.
“I think what it does is it trivializes the Holocaust,” Dee Simon, executive director of the center, told me last year. “It allows us to think of it as not as unique as it was, the idea of the government murdering 6 million people ... with complicit individuals murdering millions of people.”