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Has clarifying the distinction between fascism and socialism really added to most peoples’ understanding of what the Obama administration is doing? All this does is drag the specter of Hitler into the conversation. And the problem with Hitler was not his industrial policy–I mean, okay, fine, Hitler’s industrial policy bad, right, but I could forgive him for that, you know? The thing that really bothers me about Hitler was the genocide. And I’m about as sure as I can be that Obama has no plans to round up millions of people, put them in camps, and find various creative ways to torture them to death.
If he does, look, I take it all back. Use the F-word freely. Hell, I’ll hide you in our spare bedroom when the state police squads come looking for you. But until then, can we stick to less inflammatory terms? Surely creative and intelligent adults can find ways to critique Obama without pointing out that Hitler was also a very effective speaker.
Megan McArdle, The Atlantic, who uses it strictly about fascism, but I think it applies to a lot of the Obama comparisons. They’re histrionic, but more importantly, they make light work of some serious monsters. I’m sure there are at least a few kids who don’t understand the difference.
Posted on March 31, 2009, in Uncategorized. Bookmark the permalink. 4 Comments.
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That was a thoughtful, insightful post… until you ended it with one of the stupidest paragraphs I’ve ever read on this site.
I originally left it out, but then added it to preemptively address the often-used “the left said that about Bush for years” defense.
The Left did use it about every other word when it came to Bush. This red herring, oh poor Obama, somebody somewhere compared him to Hitler or a Nazi fails to stir me at all.
Not just someone somewhere, people are doing that ALL OVER THE PLACE. The wingnuts have completely taken over anyplace that has decent traffic. Even Huffington Post is littered with them.
And that’s not even counting the real right-wing blogs or insane Hillary sites that are still holding a grudge. On the positive side, I have to say that since those Hillary crazies left, all the liberal blogs are a much nicer place to be. Most everyone’s polite now.