11-26-2016, 06:54 PM
(11-26-2016, 02:50 AM)Copperfield Wrote:(11-25-2016, 04:43 PM)pbrower2a Wrote:(11-25-2016, 04:32 PM)Warren Dew Wrote: Sounds like the same attitude the brownshirts had.
Giving fascism another chance is as much a blunder as giving convicted serial killer Gary (Green River Killer) Ridgway another chance.
Would you have any problem if the fist were smashing the symbol of the Khmer Rouge of Iraqi Ba'athism?
Nah, I suspect he's simply suggesting that once you declare violence against any ism as acceptable, then all you have to do is declare any folks you don't like as being believers in that ism. Instant license to beat, rape, pillage and kill.
Kind of like when we first started declaring wogs we didn't like as being terrorists, then that definition slowly started to creep toward other undesirables. That is exactly the attitude of brownshirts.
The Nazis had their chance and they showed what they are. Does anyone want to be shoved into a room into which pellets of Zyklon-B are introduced?
I'd rather shout Nazis down and humiliate them. Nazism is demonstrably wrong, and anyone attracted to it is now an evil character at worst and at best a fool who has soiled himself by association. People who adopt the core beliefs of fascism without calling themselves fascists are fascists nonetheless. After all, if one sets illegal fires one is still an arsonist no matter what verbal legerdemain one uses to redefine oneself as someone not an arsonist.
What's so great about fascism, anyway? Oh, the body count?
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.