Rep. Greene Just Can't Stop Thinking About Nazis

[Gospel]

They're angry that it has such a negative reputation as to result in instant social ostracization if openly embraced, so they seek to enact a "no u" style tu quoque style defense, as they do for nearly everything. They are neither willing to abandon to their fundamental principles nor, with a scarce few exceptions, brave enough to openly lay claim to them.

This party?


I don't think so.

 

[TomC]

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Also vegetarianism and animal rights.

as several contemporaneous witnesses—such as Albert Speer (in his memoirs, Inside the Third Reich)—noted that Hitler used vivid and gruesome descriptions of animal suffering and slaughter at the dinner table to try to dissuade his colleagues from eating meat. An examination of Hitler's skull carried out by French scientists in 2017 found no traces of meat fibre in the tartar on Hitler's teeth.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler_and_vegetarianism

So, [MENTION=189]marc[/MENTION]; posts a list of attributes of fascism. They closely resemble the political platform of Trump's TeaParty.

And the best dodge you can come up with is a reference to Hitler's vegetarianism? A personal quirk that was anything but common in Fascist society?

Tom

 

[Jarhyn]

Also vegetarianism and animal rights.



https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler_and_vegetarianism

So, [MENTION=189]marc[/MENTION]; posts a list of attributes of fascism. They closely resemble the political platform of Trump's TeaParty.

And the best dodge you can come up with is a reference to Hitler's vegetarianism? A personal quirk that was anything but common in Fascist society?

Tom

Indeed. Interestingly, the ideas of animal rights and vegetarianism are interesting ones, with regards to the offenses of the Nazis.

The fact is, there is a growing population now of non-human animals with advancing formal, conversational command of human language, and English in particular.

Tell me, is it ethical to raise human children in isolation from language and love in small cages for the sake of later slaughtering them in their birth-ignorance for the sake of food?

I don't think it is. The Nazis did less than factory farms... Merely factory slaughterhouses without even taking up "a modest proposal".

So why is it OK to do that to anything else?

I don't have many great alternatives, and I am not a vegetarian. I just don't have many other options which would be both affordable and healthy. I try to confine the worst of my consumption to creatures with the smallest minds and meanest temperaments, but it strikes me as a stark divide few here will acknowledge.

Is such ubiquitous horror "fascist"? There seems to be a marriage between power and money that makes the offenses of slavery and the Holocaust seem downright cuddly and comforting when viewed sans the rose colored glasses of tradition and cultural inertia. And of course, all this is a result of systems no living person had a hand in constructing. It is a wheel someone else built that we are lashed to. It was built, in fact, before anything you could even call "human" ever walked the earth.

All I can do in the face of that is to stop using my own energy to turn said wheel, and to dance in a different direction instead.

It proves even Hitler can apparently be right about something.