Stop the boats' does echo the language of the 30s but those words were English | Kenan Malik

It has become a familiar political pas de deux.One side draws an analogy between some current policy or practice and 1930s Germany, as if Nazis provide the only measure of moral degradation.The other side uses outrage at the analogy as a shield to protect itself from having to justify that policy's immorality in its own terms.

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