Ben Smith calls attention to Hillary Clinton's comments in Indiana (as reported by the New York Times) analogizing outsourcing to genocide:
At the union hall in Gary, she grew so animated in describing the plight of old-line industrial workers that she described them in language from the oft-repeated poem, attributed to the German pastor Martin Niemöller, about the victims of Nazism. “First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out, because I was not a Socialist,” goes the version inscribed on a wall at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. After coming for the trade unionists, it continues, “they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out, because I was not a Jew.”
In Mrs. Clinton's version, she intoned: “They came for the steel companies and nobody said anything. They came for the auto companies and nobody said anything. They came for the office companies, people who did white-collar service jobs, and no one said anything. And they came for the professional jobs that could be outsourced, and nobody said anything.”
“So this is not just about steel,” she finished.
I know Nazi analogies have a long history, as Rick pointed out yesterday, but can't we just agree to retire them? Outsourcing is not genocide. Abortion is not genocide. Secularism is not genocide.
Genocide: the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group
--Dana Goldstein
