Nope. No similarities that I can see.
[ original interview ]
we watched cnn last night at my house and they showed a segment of this guy’s interview, where the interviewer (Wolf Blitzer, whose parents were Jewish refugees from Auschwitz, btw) kept pressing him on the question of “is this policy humane? In your opinion, is the policy humane?” and the guy just kept repeating, “It’s the law, and our job is to enforce the law.” And Wolf just kept saying, “but is it humane?” and the guy wouldn’t answer the question.
and after the segment, my dad turned to me and said that he couldn’t help seeing him as a nazi. my dad hates to throw that word around, but he said he could genuinely see this guy, standing at the front gate of a concentration camp, saying “it’s my job to enforce the law.”
That’s ‘cause they’re all Nazis. It doesn’t matter what the motivation is, but the action. People love to forget that chattel slavery, the Holocaust, pretty much all atrocities against humans have always been perfectly legal when they happened. That laws are created to *make* these atrocities happen. Legality means shit.
As an addition, not only were Wolf Blitzer’s parents survivors of the Shoah, he was born in Augsburg Displaced Persons Camp in Allied-Occupied Germany. Ironically Germany was the one of the safest places for Jews after the Holocaust. His parents met on a train from Poland to Germany while they were both searching for surviving relatives. Both of his parents’ parents (so all four of Blitzer’s grandparents) were killed in Auschwitz and he carries his paternal grandfather’s name.
