It is sad, and it is pathetic.
But for another person's ignorance, in this case, Westwall's, I am not responsible.
There is no part of US-American ideology, neither Liberalism nor Conservatism, that contributed to the NAZI holocaust or the mass murders of Russian's by Joseph Stalin or Mao's "Cultural Revolution" or the Armenian genocide at the hands of the Turks one century ago.
People not smart enough to realize that both terms (Liberalism, Conservatism) have changed their meaning over the years, and more importantly, they have different meanings on different continents, don't deserve my pity. But they do earn my scorn.
In Germany, the most Right-Wing party, the one party that is for Capitalism-pure, is the FDP. What do they call themselves?
"Die Liberalen"
"The Liberals"
What Westwall is doing here, under the guise of free speech, is using absolutely gross and disgusting material from another time in our Earth's history (and also on another continent) to impugne a branch of US ideology that has more followers than Conservatism. This technique, one of denunciation by association, was a favorite of the NAZIs.
So, in claiming to be so for free speech (which I support), Westwall willingly got into bed with the Nazis. Heil Westwall!
Ok, it's his right to do that, and I respect that. I never stand in the way of a person who has decided to act stupidly. It's his problem, he will have to deal with the backlash, not me.
It should also be noted that Westwall deliberately derailed this thread, the title for which is:
Conservatives mock Bring Back Our Girls hashtag
So, in about 700 posts, we have gone from the OP to ad hominen attacks on the Left by a member, using a graphic photo of genocide to make his point.
I don't need to call Westwall any names. He did it to himself by his very own behavior.
[MENTION=23239]westwall[/MENTION]: just because we have a "right" to say something doesn't mean we should say it. That is where common sense or common decency comes into play with people who have some sanity.
Are you sane?
I have seen enough of your posts to know you are who you claim you are.....but don't you find it even the slightest bit hypocritical, as the Jew I know you are, and respect, to resort to using the very tactics that the Nazi regime did?
It is a favored tactic of totalitarians everywhere, when they are accumulating power, to denigrate those who are a threat to that accumulation, and one of THE most popular tactics is to challenge that threats mental faculties.
From time immemorial, to the present day, those who would RULE others must eliminate any who would challenge them. Progressives are those who would RULE now.
You and Pogo find my referral to that most terrible of times offensive and Pogo went so far as to claim that "those progressives" were long gone. How about a recent progressive then? How about that darling of the progressive movement now, Noam Chomsky?
Did you know that he supported the Khmer rouge in their genocide in Cambodia? Below I have given you multiple links to support that assertion. When the full truth of what those bastards had done surfaced this was his response...
"In the first place, is it proper to attribute deaths from malnutrition and disease to Cambodian authorities?
Chomsky and the Khmer Rouge ? The Observer | FrontPage Magazine
Does that line of reasoning sound familiar? Does that harken back to a particular dark period of human history? That is one of the very same arguments that Holocaust Deniers
resort to in their defense of the German atrocities, because, as is well known, the vast majority of Jews who died in the camps died of starvation.
Noam Chomsky - Extremist
Khmer Rouge Apologist Noam Chomsky: Unrepentant - Nate Thayer
[MENTION=41527]Pogo[/MENTION], [MENTION=46168]Statistikhengst[/MENTION]
Hey that reminds me, stupid -- you know that new avatar you ordered? It's here --
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I went ahead and put the batteries in so he's all ready for your next Two Minutes Hate.
Yammer yammer yammer H.G. Wells yammer yammer Chomsky yammer yammer...
So, you are real good at insulting the messenger (a progressive tactic), but you can't make a single argument that refutes what I have said. That makes you a........?
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