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It goes to show that Cliff Mass has completely lost his framework of reference in his comparison (and so have you). As a German let me assure you that comparing riots among BLM protesters to the Kristallnacht is utterly unappropriate. Don't get me wrong - the rioters should be held accountable for their crimes. You compare a local, loosely organised group of somewhat indiscriminate rioters to a nation-wide, highly hi…
My feeling is that you are getting overly specific about requiring every detail to be an exact match for a similarity to hold. I don't think that is reasonable. Both the criminal subsets of BLM and the brownshirts created an atmosphere of fear. In Seattle, people are afraid to voice their political opinions freely, whether online or in social circles or at work or in political action or protests, because of the threa…
The point is:
> That is what makes this comparison valid
No it doesn't, the comparison is valid if the dissimilarities are less than the similarities. Which in this case, they aren't.
I've given you a simple order of magnitude argument, and you haven't given any evidence to the opposite.
> BLM is a nationwide (and global) organization
The fact, that you conflate BLM at large with a violent subgroup is concerting. Also you are assuming "they" are a (homogenous) group, are they? Who are "they"?
If you are really interested in discourse, take a different viewpoint for a second and make a list of dissimilarities. Wouldn't Cliff have been able to make the same point (condemn violent riots) by comparing "a house cat to an ocelot"? So why did he choose the tiger?