But Kane ignores the fact that those making the comparison -- like the website that published him -- are doing so for denigration purposes, with the intent to undermine his presidency.
Climate scientists and assorted (clearly rabidly socialist) citizens are shouting from the rooftops, only to be met with denigration or, at best, polite and sympathetic nods.
All too often, this image management combines with culturally entrenched misogyny to result in the systematic denigration of the women with whom the politician was involved.
Notionally, the horror here is something to do with the denigration of human creativity.
With the denigration of "political correctness," Trump and his followers have reasserted a right to speak of women however they want to.
"The reality for young people and teachers is that the coalition government's endless interference with, and denigration of, the qualifications system is causing uncertainty and anxiety, and dashing hopes, aspirations and life chances," she said.
With Liberal Democrats in government both other parties desperately seek to undermine the party, and their allies in the media willingly lend their columns to facile denigration - sometimes, as with Polly Toynbee in The Guardian, from activists in one or other opposing party.
In August 2005, Pamuk was charged under Article 301 of the penal code with "public denigration of Turkish identity", for saying in a Swiss newspaper interview that "30,000 Kurds and a million Armenians were killed in these lands and nobody but me dares to talk about it".
Or as the eye of the public, fatigued with the denigration of humanity that accompanies industrialization, shifts towards the environmental impact of massive companies like Apple, perhaps Apple's eye will shift as well.
