To borrow a phrase, words matter. We've heard a lot over the Trump years about how using tropes and the like are harmful, even if not intended to offend. We've seen people get severely criticized and even lose their jobs for making comparisons to the Holocaust, slavery, etc. When borrowing phrases you invoke the source and are comparing Trump's election fraud lie to Hitler's propaganda which led to the Holocaust.
I'm not saying such expressions are always untouchable. If you want to call China's lies about their treatment of the Uighurs The Big Lie, for instance, I'd say that is apt. Even though it is not the Holocaust, it is concentration camps, ethnic cleansing, sterilization, and definitely heading in the direction of that ballpark.
It's especially jarring that people who claim to so sensitive about offending minorities and dismissing their experiences so as to avoid using any terminology that is might even be remotely offensive have no qualms about invoking the The Big Lie, concentration camps, Jim Crow, etc.
Here is the context I used it in: A big lie is a propaganda technique used for political purposes, defined as "a gross distortion or misrepresentation of the facts, especially when used as a propaganda device by a politician or official body".
In no way, shape or form did I equate it to anything.
With that being said if you are offended by it I will stop using it and apologize. Just let me know.
