[Inspired from an article written by Kathleen Parker, “It’s time to Retire Hitler”.]
I have noticed this happening a lot lately even before reading Ms. Parker’s article in my local paper.
Politicians are invoking the name of Hitler when they want to insult their opponents. His name is mentioned so much that you can Google it and receive quite a lot of responses! That’s how popular Hitler as become, even today.
Studying the rise and fall of Hitler is important because doing so will hopefully prevent another occurrence of someone like that (and there are many who want to be like him). However using the name as it’s being used right now should not be tolerated. Referring to him is not acceptable because he wasn’t a great leader who did good things. He wasn’t a hero, regardless of those out there who worship him.
Society should not be indifferent to his prior existence but his actions should not be held up as examples because he was an evil man!
His name, his cause, his actions should not be held up as examples as a metaphor for evil; making others look bad; comparing our President to him; comedians using him as a punch line…enough already!