tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post4192222321295945767..comments2024-01-02T02:18:30.960-08:00Comments on Israel Thrives: What is a Nazi, anyways?Mike L.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06450806807610560873noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-26580893293037148622014-04-17T23:55:24.298-07:002014-04-17T23:55:24.298-07:00School,
from my understanding most in the histori...<br />School,<br /><br />from my understanding most in the historical profession would agree with you that Germany in the 1930s and 1940s was an aberration. There is a general disinclination in the field to essentialize Germans as inherently anti-Semitic for obvious and very good reasons.<br /><br />I think, tho, that what the Nazis did in the 1920s and 1930s, in terms of the defamation of the Jewish people, is not so different from what we see on a daily basis throughout western-left media. <br /><br />The difference is in the effect. Every generation we are told just why we deserve a good beating and in every generation we get that beating, although in some generations it's not very bad, while in others it is absolutely horrific.<br /><br />In this generation we are also told why we deserve a good beating. Will it end up in another Holocaust? I wouldn't think, but I still do not appreciate the sentiment.Mike L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06450806807610560873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-90149185442110686892014-04-17T08:23:53.091-07:002014-04-17T08:23:53.091-07:00The very term antisemitism was invented by a Germa...The very term antisemitism was invented by a German journalist in the 1870's. Dozens of fervently right wing and left wing openly antisemitic 'clubs' sprung up. Of course this was before, just before the dawn of the racist eugenics movement. So antisemitism was framed not in terms of 'race' but in terms of culture, politics and religion. Just as it is now. <br /><br />Keep in mind that German nationalism was on the upswing in the 1870's, Germany was finally and for the first time unified as a nation. One had to be a 'good German in every way be it Catholic or Lutheran, politically right wing, staunchly German speaking, culturally German and all the rest. Jews were seen as a group apart who must be FORCED to assimilate and become entirely German. Any who resisted this force were suspect, dangerous. <br /><br />Walter Laquer covers this in some detail in "The Changing Face of Antisemitism".<br />Phyllis Goldstein's "A Convenient Hatred" also touches on this a bit. Empress Trudyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06073538968722986065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-25340652157787927042014-04-17T07:59:09.975-07:002014-04-17T07:59:09.975-07:00Y'know, Trudy, that's a very interesting i...Y'know, Trudy, that's a very interesting insight and one that gets to the core of a vital historical question around Nazi Germany.<br /><br />The question is this:<br /><br />Were the Nazis expressing something essential within German culture or did they represent an aberration?Mike L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06450806807610560873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-51864059066662574782014-04-16T13:38:23.150-07:002014-04-16T13:38:23.150-07:00The Nazis didn't invent themselves. They simpl...The Nazis didn't invent themselves. They simply branded it.<br /><br />Max Blumenthal is a Nazi. Glenn Greenwald is a Nazi. Alice Walker is a Nazi. Greta Berlin is a Nazi. George Galloway is a Nazi. Richard Falk is a Nazi. Judith Butler is a Nazi. Phil Weiss is a Nazi. Anthony Lowenstein is a Nazi. Empress Trudyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06073538968722986065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-83188152673414994732014-04-16T11:35:05.596-07:002014-04-16T11:35:05.596-07:00BDSers aren't Nazis, but they don't have t...BDSers aren't Nazis, but they don't have to be. They should eventually be viewed as precisely the ugly, violent, antisemitic, pro-war hate group that they are. Our job is to ensure we get to the point where society takes this fact as a given.JayinPhiladelphiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14556212008313470286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-3203140682064115172014-04-16T11:29:56.211-07:002014-04-16T11:29:56.211-07:00If you ask me, only the Nazis were Nazis. Our tas...If you ask me, only the Nazis were Nazis. Our task is to rip the masks off the BDSers, the antisemitic anti-Zionists, etc, and make it so that whatever they call themselves becomes just as synonymous with those miserable connotations, implications and resonances as other hate groups have throughout history.JayinPhiladelphiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14556212008313470286noreply@blogger.com