ADL: Stop Playing The Holocaust Card

Remember a couple weeks ago, when Mike Huckabee compared a woman's choice in determining their own medical care as a holocaust? And when I posted this over at The Right's Field, some of the more pointy-eared, living-under-a-bridge commenters claimed that Huck was just talking about any ol' holocaust, not THE Holocaust, and so making the comparison to mass genocide was completely in the bounds of political discourse?

Tell that to the Anti-Defamation League.

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) called on presidential candidate Mike Huckabee to refrain from invoking Holocaust imagery, following his recent use of the term "holocaust" to refer to abortion.

The former Arkansas governor was speaking at the Family Research Council's Values Voter Summit in Washington D.C. when he referred to the "…holocaust of liberalized abortion…".

In a letter to Governor Huckabee, ADL National Director Abraham H. Foxman said: "The Holocaust was a unique tragedy in human history – an attempt by the Nazis to exterminate the Jewish people that led to the deliberate murder of six million Jews. We find the use of analogies to the Holocaust in other contexts deeply painful, disturbing and offensive. Such analogies can only trivialize and diminish the horror, and cause further pain to Holocaust survivors and to those alive today who lost friends and loved ones."

Indeed, all of these analogies on the right to Nazism and calling the guy who runs the traffic in Tehran the next Hitler cheapen the deaths of millions. We have challenges in the world, but they are only exacerbated by such distortions.