But that was before Hagel went over to the . . . err . . . umm . . . Pigmented Side!
I’ll let this dude give a possible response to this:
Note that last sentence; this was not intended as a “warning about human nature,” this was intended as a critique of the President and his words.
So this National Review writer thinks that the Holocaust is an act of rational violence. Let’s hope the author doesn’t get nominated to serve as Secretary of Defense anytime soon, because she might have to explain further why the Holocaust made sense.
It was both.
It made sense to alot of Germans, that’s the point. They weren’t drooling insane lunatics, yet the supported mass murder, and that should scare us even more.
People talk about such things. In fact, I looked up this thread to mention that article because someone started a thread about it on another forum.
This exactly.
As I’ve seen pointed out elsewhere, that NRO column is pretty much literally saying “Say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, dude, at least it’s an ethos.” So that’s pretty cool.
The Dude abides.
No, it’s not even remotely saying that.
The Ducetoo. It seems, for some people.
It managed to give that impression to a great many people.
And regardless of intent it was still a “Stupid Republican Idea”; Nazism is the radioactive ideology that you want to avoid any risk of associating yourself with. Especially when you come from a political faction that has an association with ruthlessness, authoritarianism and racism.
It’s nitpicking in the same way that I’m nitpicking when I criticize people for calling a mass shooting at a school a “tragedy.” There’s nothing tragic about it. You can call it horrific or criminal or disgusting or many other things, but it’s not tragic. The shooter wasn’t some guy with great potential who was brought down ironically by a character flaw that originated as an element of his own strengths. So it’s not a tragedy.
Was it irony?
So?
Lots of people often misread things, especially when their guards are up.
The readers saw someone criticizing Obama over a word choice, and didn’t read deeper.
And that just reveals what I’m talking about -your biased reading. He wasn’t “associating” with Nazism. He was criticizing it. And your attitude only insulates Nazis from criticism.
Okay. Yeah, call it what you want, it was the same point.
Bryan Fischer stupidly denies that the Republicans are the Stupid Party, closing with this stupid statement of stupidity:
How have I never heard of this guy before? There’s a bunch of videos of him on Youtube, and each one is funnier than the last.
“Generations Radio host Kevin Swanson, who last week delved memorably into feminist theory, tells us this week that “certain doctors and certain scientists” have researched the wombs of women on the pill and found “there are these little tiny fetuses, these little babies, that are embedded into the womb…Those wombs of women who have been on the birth control pill effectively have become graveyards for lots and lots of little babies.””