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The Nazis Systemically murdered over 6 million people. Enough with the lazy, inflammatory & wrong comparisons to the Republicans
What the FUCK! I am SO SICK OF THIS BULLSHIT whereby someone cites Nazi analogies as being facile & gross overstatements, then uses the specter of the Nazi Holocaust to justify their facile comparison with the enemy of the moment.
Give me a fucking break. The Nazi regime systemically murdered 6 million Jewish people and millions of others, including homosexuals, Russian POWs and Gypsies.
The murdered millions of people. The innate need of some to cast their political opponents with that murderous regime belies an inability to express one's own feelings articulately, thus the lazy writer descends into overwrought Nazi comparison.
Six million Jews. Millions of others. Murdered. In cold blood. Comparisons of that with Bush or his supporters is weak and discredits the liberal cause which you claim to support. I am so fucking sick of it.
Millions of people, murdered in cold blood. Try to count to 6 million. Try to read 6 million names. How long would it take you? For each name, this is one life intentionally ended by the murderous Nazis. I can't stand it, and I'm embarrassed to see posts containing these sentiments recommended on a site I enjoy every day.
The Nazi regime murdered millions of people. Some mentally disturbed McCain supporter tried to perpetrate a hoax. Is there really any point of comparison.
Enough.
Here's an example of some of the weak analogies put forth.
Comparisons with Nazis and other historical extremes are all too often facile and gross overstatements of one's case, and are usually best avoided. It is worth noting, however, that the rise of the Nazis in Germany and other examples of extreme demagoguery from history such as the Cultural Revolution in China under Mao Zedong and the Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia contained elements common to many such movements, if in less extreme forms. The Nazis, Mao's Red Guards, and the Khmer Rouge all made use of xenophobia and anti-cosmopolitanism, hatred of intellectuals, disdain for cities and the people who inhabit them, and other forms of divisive populism and "anti-elitism" to build working-class and peasant support and to fashion scapegoats at which popular anger might usefully be directed. Infamously in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, even possessing the soft hands of an educated urbanite was enough to get one executed; and at Chinese universities during the Cultural Revolution professors were thrown from their classroom windows to their deaths on the pavement below. Hitler's Nazis are known not only for the death camps they operated, but also for the persecution of artists and intellectuals as well as for festive book-burnings before cheering mobs of working-class Nazi supporters.
Give me a fucking break. The Nazi regime systemically murdered 6 million Jewish people and millions of others, including homosexuals, Russian POWs and Gypsies.
The murdered millions of people. The innate need of some to cast their political opponents with that murderous regime belies an inability to express one's own feelings articulately, thus the lazy writer descends into overwrought Nazi comparison.
Six million Jews. Millions of others. Murdered. In cold blood. Comparisons of that with Bush or his supporters is weak and discredits the liberal cause which you claim to support. I am so fucking sick of it.
Millions of people, murdered in cold blood. Try to count to 6 million. Try to read 6 million names. How long would it take you? For each name, this is one life intentionally ended by the murderous Nazis. I can't stand it, and I'm embarrassed to see posts containing these sentiments recommended on a site I enjoy every day.
The Nazi regime murdered millions of people. Some mentally disturbed McCain supporter tried to perpetrate a hoax. Is there really any point of comparison.
Enough.
Here's an example of some of the weak analogies put forth.
Comparisons with Nazis and other historical extremes are all too often facile and gross overstatements of one's case, and are usually best avoided. It is worth noting, however, that the rise of the Nazis in Germany and other examples of extreme demagoguery from history such as the Cultural Revolution in China under Mao Zedong and the Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia contained elements common to many such movements, if in less extreme forms. The Nazis, Mao's Red Guards, and the Khmer Rouge all made use of xenophobia and anti-cosmopolitanism, hatred of intellectuals, disdain for cities and the people who inhabit them, and other forms of divisive populism and "anti-elitism" to build working-class and peasant support and to fashion scapegoats at which popular anger might usefully be directed. Infamously in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, even possessing the soft hands of an educated urbanite was enough to get one executed; and at Chinese universities during the Cultural Revolution professors were thrown from their classroom windows to their deaths on the pavement below. Hitler's Nazis are known not only for the death camps they operated, but also for the persecution of artists and intellectuals as well as for festive book-burnings before cheering mobs of working-class Nazi supporters.
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hitler and nazi comparisons are a tricky business, agreed. but before they killed millions of innocent lives, they behaved in ways that ought to be pointed out when its recognized.
October 25, 2008 7:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
I agree that thos eon the left and the right see nazi's all over and it cheapins what the nazi's did.
But Pol Pot's regime was just as brutal. With a population of just over 7 million, Amnesty International estimates they killed 1.4 million. Mao killed an estimated 20 million during the Great Leap Forward.
These, maybe along with Stalin, rival what the Nazi's did. You can argue that Hitler intended all along to kill all that he did and that the others were killed as a result of brutal domestic policies. But I believe that if you had told Mao and Pol Pot the results of their policies they would have done NOTHING to change it.
November 2, 2009 6:53 PM | Reply | Permalink