you're right, I shouldn't compare the "eradication" rhetoric back then to the "eradication" rhetoric now. I shouldn't compare the concentration camp rhetoric then to the institutionalization rhetoric now. I shouldn't compare the systemic rape then to the prison rape now. I shouldn't compare the ambient risk of being arrested on the street then to the risk of being arrested in day to day life in unsafe States now. I shouldn't compare the ugly, antisemitic propaganda posters then to the ugly, transphobic propaganda posters now.

and I certainly shouldn't compare the moral panic then to the moral panic now.

I offer two hypotheses on why my original comment has been so heavily downvoted:

1. people think it's not that bad, or not going to get that bad, and/or

2. people think my people deserve it, while yours didn't.