A final note to Danny and PriusChat

I believe you're wrong, and ask if you read the following by MS:

(paraphrasing)

1. "...no difference between saying 'the Jews sucked up all the money" and "the Poles [and several others, in successive lines] sucked up all the money"

In historical context, whether MS is saying this or Hitler (paraphrased) said it, it goes to the very heart of the ages-old hatred of Jews as perceived "moneylenders", indeed, "the bankers of Europe". He (horton, maybe again paraphrasing Mein Kampf ), then says WW II might not have happened if the Jews hadn't done that (and upset Hitler). Anyone who knows history even in a cursory manner knows that Hitler's territorial ambitions and his hatred of Jews (and Gypsies, for that matter) were separate issues.

So yes, there's patently a HUGE difference between saying those two things.

2. MS asks' if Jews are "WORTH" any more than other victims of "ethnic cleansing". This begs the question (rhetorical in any case), and strongly infers that the casualties suffered by the Kosovos and the Hutus are of the same magnitude as the Holocaust. By further inference, the Holocaust was "small potatoes". This is straight out of the skinhead/neoNazi revisionist revival.

Horton's closing line about the US possibly "needing" another "civil war"---in order to achieve a "balance" of economic interests---is also straight skinhead stuff.

I'm surprised at you.

Are there any other history majors around here?

 

Evan, let's do this right, if you're going to do it partly.

I appreciate your willingness (I didn't ask) to reproduce part of that thread. But I ask that you reproduce MS's posts (which I've paraphrased), too, and let members judge for themselves.

I take full responsibility for my profanity, apologized twice for it Tuesday night, and again "face up" to my role. I tried to smoke MS out fully on his remarks about Jews and what horton had said, but he's too clever for that.

 

Thanks. I'll give you your $25 when I see you.

I haven't read all your EV and other posts, but from what I've seen, darell, you're making a positive contribution of your own.

I'll PM or call you. But you may have to explain me away to your friends/wife. I'm only 2'4" as well as old.

Just kidding. ::looks down:: I think.

 

I see MS continues to make himself the cause celebre , and to advertise it on a thread I intended for my own purposes.

I'm taking a break. Even this may not be worth it.