Is ICE like the Gestapo? Only in leftworld. By Average Person in NY.

Unbelievable how the only historical analogies the left seems capable of reaching for come from the Holocaust. It’s not just lazy, it shows a complete inability to articulate an argument without jumping to the most extreme moral comparison imaginable. When you cannot explain why a policy is wrong on its own terms, you grab the biggest historical evil you can think of and hope the shock does the work for you.

The Gestapo was a central instrument of a genocidal state. Its purpose was not law enforcement. It was ideological cleansing. Gestapo agents moved across Europe identifying Jews who were legal citizens of their countries, people who had lived there for generations, people who posed no threat and committed no crime. They were arrested not for what they did, but for who they were. Millions were rounded up, stripped of rights, transported in cattle cars, and sent toward extermination. Six million Jews were murdered as a result of that system.

The Gestapo’s Jewish Affairs office was headed by Adolf Eichmann, a man whose job was to industrialize deportation. He coordinated trains, schedules, and quotas to ensure entire Jewish communities were erased.

ICE, by contrast, enforces immigration law in a modern democratic country. It arrests people who, by law, are in the country illegally. Not because of their religion. Not because of their ethnicity. Not because of an ideology that says they must be eliminated. In the Minnesota operation, a few hundred people were arrested, and two people were killed in circumstances that are still being debated and investigated. That is tragic, and it is fair to argue that it deserves scrutiny. But scrutiny is not the same thing as historical insanity.

Ugly morality of the left:

To compare this to the Gestapo is to either not understand history or to deliberately cheapen it. It implies that Nazi crimes were just another example of enthusiastic law enforcement. It rewrites the Holocaust as a dispute over paperwork and borders instead of the systematic murder of millions of people.

And there is something especially ugly about Jews being forced to constantly watch the Holocaust turned into a rhetorical prop, used casually to score political points. If every disagreement is Nazism, then nothing is. If every enforcement action is genocide, then genocide itself becomes meaningless.

What they do isn’t moral clarity. It’s moral vandalism.