Politics & Power Quote by Warren Farrell

Farrell isn’t making a careful historical comparison; he’s deploying a rhetorical fire alarm. By invoking Jews under early Nazism, he drags the reader to the edge of moral panic, where nuance evaporates and the only acceptable reaction is dread. The line is engineered to feel less like an argument than an emergency: if feminists are “thinking” about men the way Nazis “thought” about Jews, then feminism isn’t a political project to debate, it’s an incipient persecution to resist.

The subtext is victimhood with a prosecutorial edge. Farrell positions men not merely as misunderstood but as a stigmatized minority facing a looming, organized scapegoating. That framing does two things at once: it converts criticism of male power into bigotry against men, and it implies that cultural critique is the first step in a familiar escalator toward dehumanization. The phrase “coming to be thought of” is doing quiet work here. It suggests a creeping consensus, a society-wide reclassification of men as suspect, without needing to prove that any mainstream feminist movement actually holds the genocidal logic he gestures at.

Context matters because Farrell emerged as a prominent men’s-rights-aligned writer in the post-second-wave backlash ecosystem, where the currency is not policy detail but moral equivalence. The comparison is “overwhelmingly scary” because it’s meant to be. It borrows Holocaust memory as a force multiplier, turning a contested conversation about gender, harm, and accountability into a stark drama of impending persecution. The result is less insight than inoculation: once your opponents are Nazis-in-formation, you don’t have to hear them out.