11-27-2016, 03:26 PM
(11-26-2016, 07:04 PM)Copperfield Wrote:(11-26-2016, 06:54 PM)pbrower2a Wrote:(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?
So did we, or is there a particular reason you conveniently overlook the fact that you currently live on land taken during a genocide that dwarfs anything the Nazis could come up with?
I get that you have a WWII fetish but your own country has done far worse and still does far worse each and every day. Your double standards are remarkable.
Disease and (of all things) feral pigs did more to kill off American First Peoples north of about the Potomac. First people found the feral pigs just too dangerous to hunt, and they out-competed the hunter-gatherers for food.
Yes, I know that almost anyone in the United States is living on stolen property. But what property was not stolen at some time and then deeded or sold in normal land transactions?
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.