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MSNBC host Ali Velshi agreed with his show guest's characterization of recently proposed legislation in Florida as a 'road test for authoritarianism' in the vein of the Nazi party in 1930s Germany.
Velshi, a host on the left-leaning network, was joined by transgender activist and journalist Imara Jones to discuss a series of bills that he described as 'aimed at limiting the rights of transgender Americans across the country.'
The host zeroed in on a bill currently pending in the Florida state senate that pertains to child custody under some conditions, like when a child's parents disagree about 'gender-affirming care.'
Velshi asked Jones of the bill, 'What exactly are we talking about here in this Florida bill?'
'What I get confused by is why people don’t see that that’s what’s happening and don’t understand that in some ways that we are — This is a prototype, just like the early 1930s were in Germany,' said Jones, invoking Hitler's Germany as a comparison for modern Florida,' said Jones.
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Online, backlash against the segment came expeditiously.
Conservative talk radio host Jason Rantz said: 'Dimwits Ali Velshi and Imara Jones compare being trans in Florida with being a Jew in Nazi Germany because they're historically ignorant and mentally unfit to be in front of a microphone and camera.'
'For them to make comparison [sic] between the two proves they have absolutely no perspective. At all,' responded Terry Lee Straub on Twitter.
A third Twitter user called Clay Ruppenthal wrote: 'Lmao! MSNBC = propaganda for people who are completely illiterate in history and who worship the progressive fascist political religion.'
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