Given that this isn’t really going anywhere and we are in the Pit, I thought I’d share what Collounsbury wrote in his Weblog yesterday about december: - especially since december likes weblogs, an all:
*“My opinion of december has always been clear, but perhaps I can be even more clear.
I believe december is the kind of person who makes genocide possible.
It’s a hard thing to say about a Jew, but were he a German he would have been a Nazi of the most obsequeious type. *
Yikes ! Nazi-esque. While I’m still mulling over the implications of that assessment, my first reaction is to think Collounsbury – and most of us – probably are qualified to make pretty informed opinions of the man given the intense (daily) relationship between december and the board.
Indeed, I’ve called him before on his racism and race hate incitement, but I put some of that down to him being of an older generation and, presumably, not well travelled. But akin to a Nazi ?
Yet, on the other hand, I understand what Collounsbury means: the *apparent *unblinking adherence to the line, the wholesale acceptance, the desire to see the Palestinians as one monolithic entity - something that encourages the dehumanisation of that group . . . etc., etc. The list goes on and on. He does demonstrate symptoms, imho.
But I do also wonder if this is all something of a hobby or game for december. It’s difficult for me to believe anyone can truly think the way he does and for that person to not be, well, ill to some extent.
I understand what he tries to do here on the SDMB (and his tactics), but I guess I still don’t quite ‘get’ december himself . . . . although I’ve seen enough to probably think he is dangerous.
I just find it’s got to the point where the individual himself becomes the fascination, rather than what he writes . . . a Nazi, a psychotic, just a hard-nosed neo-Con, a comedian ? . . Anyone have any thought-provoking insights they’d like to share; what is it we’re really dealing with here ?