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Appearing in the dictionary under “Banality of evil”:
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To those who are not familiar with the term "banality of evil":
Jewish philosopher Hannah Arendt coined the term after watching the trial of Adolf Eichmann, a Nazi SS officer who had shuttled millions of Jews to their deaths during World War II.
Now the label has been reassigned to the Jan-6 events.
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"The Reichstag fire was an arson attack on the Reichstag building, home of the German parliament in Berlin, on Monday 27 February 1933, precisely four weeks after Adolf Hitler was sworn in as Chancellor of Germany."

Jan. 6 is quite comparable to the Reichstag fire - a direct attack on the national seat of government by partisans, a five-alarm fire for democracy. Did the Reichstag fire wake Germans up to what was happening in their country? Evidently not, or not enough of them. Hitler continued to consolidate power. Similarly, although he was defeated in the 2020 election (barely), Trump's grip on the GOP is as tight as ever.

It still took several years for Germany to progress from the Reichstag fire to extermination camps. We're not at the Holocaust in America, yet, but a catastrophe like Jan. 6 is one step on the journey to decay of democracy and the erosion of civil rights and political freedoms.
5 ups, 3y
For those not familiar with history:

The Reichstag fire was an arson attack on the Reichstag building (the German Capitol).
On Monday 27 February 1933, precisely four weeks after Adolf Hitler was elected Chancellor of Germany, the Reichstag was set on fire.

Nazi Party used the fire as a pretext to claim that communists were plotting against the German government by issuing mass arrests of political opponents and suspending most civil liberties, including habeas corpus, freedom of expression, freedom of the press, the right of free association and public assembly, and the secrecy of postal services and telephone by decree.
Hitler, after having obtained his emergency powers, announced that it was the start of an insurrection to take over Germany. Nazi Party newspapers then published this fabricated "news".[18]

Some lone nut (Van der Lubbe) being responsible the Nazis sought to make it appear to be insurgents that set the fire.
The responsibility for the Reichstag fire remains a topic of debate and research. Some historians believe, based on archive evidence, that the arson had been planned and ordered by the Nazis as a false flag operation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_fire
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So since the Holocaust was evil nothing less that the Holocaust is evil?
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No. That'd be disparaging the victims of the Holocaust.
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A blind man can see that the events unfolding in slow motion in the US today have a direct parallel to the past. Your diminishing of them because it hasn’t yet passed a ridiculously obscene threshold is the height of either naïveté or ignorance. Possibly both.
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