# Public Speaking (controversial)

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**Created:** [July 16, 2013, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/public-speaking-controversial/663616 "2013-07-16T00:20:39Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 16, 2013, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/public-speaking-controversial/663616/61 "2013-07-16T15:11:09Z")

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> [@Northern\_Piper](#):
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> Not just referring to him, but quoting approvingly a long chunk of one of Hitler’s speeches. He’s obviously been studying Hitler a lot to have that at his fingertips.

Yes, I have studied Hitler’s speeches extensively. What’s your point? I never once cast him in a positive light or tried to make excuses for the horrible things he did. As I said previously, my views are the antithesis of what his were. I don’t believe in nationalism, I am against socialism, I am pro-capitalism, and, depending on if I want to be realistic or idealistic, an anarchist.

I also study great speakers like MLK, Churchill, Socrates and associates (Plato, Aristotle, Alexander the Great, etc.), Ron Paul, Reagan, T. Roosevelt, and many others. I just believe that Hitler was the best of the ones I’ve studied, so I could learnt he most from him. What’s wrong with that?

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