I don’t believe that Sean Spicer actually meant to be a holocaust denier, although I’m not sure. I think it far more likely that he said ‘holocaust centers’ instead of concentration camps because he’s just a complete fucking idiot and he forgot the words ‘concentration camp.’ I guess Schindler’s List wasn’t as great as everybody all thought.
The statement that Assad was just as bad as Hitler because ‘Hitler didn’t gas his own people’ is a lot more troubling. Sure, the Cleveland police killed a 12 year old child holding a squirt gun (admittedly, it was a supersoaker, and they look like some kind of anti-tank rocket launcher, except sometimes in bright green and yellow plastic), but it wasn’t THEIR child. Sure, the pharmacies are withholding lifesaving drugs from all but the rich, but hey, it’s not THEIR grandparents.
There is also, of course, the fact that many of the Jews to die in concentration camps (NOT holocaust centers, you fucking moron) were, indeed, German citizens. Born in Germany, spoke German, attended German schools, all that.
But how could Sean Spicer have been expected to know that? He wasn’t around.
So, he criticizes Assad, and says he’s the same as Hitler. Did Assad invade Poland, or even any of the nations adjoining Syria? No, he did not. Did Assad design and build a whole new class of killer submarines? No, he did not. Did Assad start a world war which killed cca. 18 million, give or take about 5 million? No, he did not.
So, shut the fuck up on the holocaust remembrances, Stupid Spice. That all happened before you were born, and you obviously are no student of history.