Reply #45: I thought it was much worse than usual. [View All]

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I might be biased. I studied African History and the history of the transatlantic slave trade. I read first-person accounts of the horrors of slavery and Jim Crow.

No matter how much a person might disdain Hillary Clinton, comparing her campaign to the systematic torture and murder of generations of people is totally over the line. It's a slap in the face not just to her campaign, but most of all to the millions of people who were victims of these horrors. It's a slap in the face to anyone who has ever fought against these horrors.

Such comparisons cheapen discourse to the point of meaningless. If Hillary Clinton is as bad as the Ku Klux Klan and her advisers are as bad as Nazis, then there must not be anything all that horrific in the world - the Klan and the Nazis are no worse than a Democratic campaign for president. That's the overall message and I abhor it.