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In her original comment (the recording played by Lieu), Owens glossed over the genocide and made out that where Hitler had gone wrong was in attempting to expand his rule beyond the borders of Germany. That is not excusable. To verify that in context, Owens ignored the genocidal aspect of Hitler's rule in her comment, go to about the 40:50 mark of the video of the event at the RAC Club in London. She didn't condemn him for genocide, she condemned his 'globalist' ambition.
She's either being ignorant or maliciously disingenuous. In addition, her line of rhetoric is bullshit, as if somebody with territorial ambitions cannot be a nationalist. She compounded the bullshit when she attempted to dig herself out of the hole in her subsequent statement: 'He wasn’t a nationalist. He was a homicidal, psychotic maniac.' Hitler being a 'homicidal, psychotic maniac' doesn't preclude him from being a nationalist. Note that the subsequent statement was not made at the RAC Club event--it was a Twitter video she released after she was called out on what she said at the RAC Club.
She's either being ignorant or maliciously disingenuous. In addition, her line of rhetoric is bullshit, as if somebody with territorial ambitions cannot be a nationalist. She compounded the bullshit when she attempted to dig herself out of the hole in her subsequent statement: 'He wasn’t a nationalist. He was a homicidal, psychotic maniac.' Hitler being a 'homicidal, psychotic maniac' doesn't preclude him from being a nationalist. Note that the subsequent statement was not made at the RAC Club event--it was a Twitter video she released after she was called out on what she said at the RAC Club.
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It looks exactly like that. You can't separate Hitler from his views on Jews and non-whites so saying it would've been fine if all he wanted to do was make Germany great doesn't cut it.Hermit wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2019 3:22 pmQuote her. I mean, quote her. I anticipate your interpretation of what her actual words mean will be of the same calibre as Ted Lieu's interpretation when he accused Owens of legitimising Hitler: Unadulterated rubbish.
Edit: And you just did what I told you not to do.
No, Owens said: "if Hitler just wanted to make Germany great and have things run well, OK, fine." Doesn't even look remotely like she was saying Hitler like was pretty innocuous until he started invading other countries.
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Correct. Now find the bit where she attempts to legitimise Hitler.L'Emmerdeur wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2019 3:22 pmOwens ignored the genocidal aspect of Hitler's rule in her comment, go to about the 40:50 mark of the video of the event at the RAC Club in London. She didn't condemn him for genocide, she condemned his 'globalist' ambition.
Your line of thinking reminds me of those shitheads who say that Muslims who fail to condemn Islamist terrorism are in favour of, or at least sympathise with it. Are they trying to legitimise Islamic terrorism?
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It does seem to give Hitler's other policies, such as the elimination of "undesirable" elements of German society, a pass. It seems to implicitly sweep them all under the umbrage of "making Germany great -" as if eliminating non-whites, Jews, homosexuals, and others, is just part of what one does to make a nation "great."
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Owens did not even say Hitler was a nationalist, and yes, you can make Germany great and have things run well without being genocidal. Old Fritz did it when Germany was basically just Prussia-Brandenburg, and Bismarck too before and after it was formally re-established as a nation.Animavore wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2019 3:27 pmIt looks exactly like that. You can't separate Hitler from his views on Jews and non-whites so saying it would've been fine if all he wanted to do was make Germany great doesn't cut it.Hermit wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2019 3:22 pmQuote her. I mean, quote her. I anticipate your interpretation of what her actual words mean will be of the same calibre as Ted Lieu's interpretation when he accused Owens of legitimising Hitler: Unadulterated rubbish.
Edit: And you just did what I told you not to do.
No, Owens said: "if Hitler just wanted to make Germany great and have things run well, OK, fine." Doesn't even look remotely like she was saying Hitler like was pretty innocuous until he started invading other countries.
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Like Muslims who fail to protest Islamic terrorism?Jason wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2019 3:37 pmIt does seem to give Hitler's other policies, such as the elimination of "undesirable" elements of German society, a pass. It seems to implicitly sweep them all under the umbrage of "making Germany great -" as if eliminating non-whites, Jews, homosexuals, and others, is just part of what one does to make a nation "great."
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If you've read my previous comments on this topic, you know that I have not claimed that she was attempting to legitimize Hitler. In the original comment, she finds his territorial ambitions problematic while claiming that 'if Hitler just wanted to make Germany great and have things run well, OK, fine.' We know how Hitler wanted to make Germany great, but according to her comment 'the problem' is really that 'he had dreams outside of Germany.'Hermit wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2019 3:33 pmCorrect. Now find the bit where she attempts to legitimise Hitler.L'Emmerdeur wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2019 3:22 pmOwens ignored the genocidal aspect of Hitler's rule in her comment, go to about the 40:50 mark of the video of the event at the RAC Club in London. She didn't condemn him for genocide, she condemned his 'globalist' ambition.
Your line of thinking reminds me of those shitheads who say that Muslims who fail to condemn Islamist terrorism are in favour of, or at least sympathise with it. Are they trying to legitimise Islamic terrorism?
I think you would agree that Hitler's agenda for making Germany great and having things run well was not 'OK, fine.' As I said above, Owens' comment was inexcusable.
ETA: If I read of a Muslim who said, 'If ISIS just wanted to re-establish the caliphate and have things run well, OK, fine. The problem is that they have dreams outside of Syria and Iraq,' I would find their comment highly problematic.
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That "if" is a pivotal word in interpreting the meaning in that sentence. You can take it to introduce a hypothetical and therefore discount everything Hitler wanted to do in Germany and then introduce the simple imperative of "making Germany great " which does not include such things as ethnic cleansing. In that sense she's basically saying "If Hitler hadn't been a genocidal monster intent on purging the German population and only wanted to improve conditions within Germany then there wouldn't have been a problem." She, however, confounds that banal statement with the contrasting "he wanted to globalize." This does seem to concretize the previous hypothetical statement and make Hitler out to be something of an over-stepping nation-builder instead of the monster he was. There's an implicit whitewashing going on there - at least it's not an unreasonable interpretation of what was said that there is.
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To be perfectly clear, since the editing window has closed: If I read of a Muslim who said, 'If ISIS just wants to re-establish the caliphate and have things run well, OK, fine. The problem is that they have dreams outside of Syria and Iraq,' I would find their comment highly problematic inexcusable as well. 'The problem' is that they're murderous fanatics--their territorial ambitions, while not acceptable and worthy of the most strenuous opposition, somewhat fade into the background of their essential character and mode of operation.
As far as I'm concerned the same is the case with Hitler's Third Reich. If I make out that 'the problem' with Hitler is that he wanted to expand the nation's Lebensraum while glossing over the rest of his agenda as just wanting 'to make Germany great and have things run well,' I'm being dishonest. People would be right to question whether I was in fact doing one of the things the alt-right is infamous for--using ambiguous wording to slip acceptance of white nationalism into the conversation while maintaining at least minimally plausible deniability. Perhaps Candace Owens is just clueless enough to have picked up that sort of gambit and regurgitated it without understanding what her compatriots are doing. However, the whole point of Owens' appearance before the committee was to downplay concerns over the rise of white nationalism as just a ploy to get Democrats elected.
As far as I'm concerned the same is the case with Hitler's Third Reich. If I make out that 'the problem' with Hitler is that he wanted to expand the nation's Lebensraum while glossing over the rest of his agenda as just wanting 'to make Germany great and have things run well,' I'm being dishonest. People would be right to question whether I was in fact doing one of the things the alt-right is infamous for--using ambiguous wording to slip acceptance of white nationalism into the conversation while maintaining at least minimally plausible deniability. Perhaps Candace Owens is just clueless enough to have picked up that sort of gambit and regurgitated it without understanding what her compatriots are doing. However, the whole point of Owens' appearance before the committee was to downplay concerns over the rise of white nationalism as just a ploy to get Democrats elected.
“The hearing today isn’t about white nationalism, it’s a preview of a Democrat 2020 election strategy, same as the 2016 election strategy,” Owens said. “If they were really concerned about white nationalism, they’d hold hearings on antifa.”
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That Hitler fella was doing a fine job at Making Germany Great Again, but then it all went tits up after the Anschluss. Silly globalist...
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You know, the more I hear about this Hitler bloke the less I like him.
Look, Owens wants to rehabilitate 'nationalism' as a legitimate political term - one that isn't associated with death camps and blond hair. Good luck to her in that misguided venture - but if we're going to take issue with her views lets take issue with what she says rather than what she doesn't. After all, charitability is the first rule of honest discourse.
Look, Owens wants to rehabilitate 'nationalism' as a legitimate political term - one that isn't associated with death camps and blond hair. Good luck to her in that misguided venture - but if we're going to take issue with her views lets take issue with what she says rather than what she doesn't. After all, charitability is the first rule of honest discourse.
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It's all fun and games until someone annexes the Sudetenland.
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Your stupid argument is like someone saying that a capitalist country isn't capitalist because it's not pure laissez-faire capitalism. You're using your dumbass "No True Scotsman" routine.pErvinalia wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2019 11:02 pmNO IT'S NOT! FFS, how many times do we need to explain get it wrong this to you? Communism advocates a stateless decentralised society. State authoritarianism is clearly not stateless. Stop conflating the two.Forty Two wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2019 2:01 pmStalinism is a form of communism.pErvinalia wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2019 1:36 pmThe problem is that you constantly conflate communists with Stalinism.
Stalinism is a form of communism.
How many times does it have to be explained to you that Stalinism is, in fact, a form of communism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_c ... ideologies
Stalinism -- systematized and expanded on "....the ideas of Vladimir Lenin into the ideology of Marxism–Leninism as a distinct body of work. In this sense, Stalinism can be thought of as being roughly equivalent to Marxism–Leninism....[/quote]Self-identified communists hold a variety of views, including Marxism, Dengism, Trotskyism, Stalinism, council communism, Luxemburgism, anarcho-communism, Christian communism, Islamic socialism and various currents of left communism.
Stalinism is sometimes used as a term
- i.e. - a whole host of Communist countries are/were of the Stalinist variety of Communism....to describe a wide variety of political systems and governments, including the Soviet Union, the Warsaw Pact countries of Europe, Mongolia, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Ethiopia, Albania, and others. In this sense, it can be seen as being roughly equivalent to actually existing socialism,...
Stalinism is a form of Marxist Communism.some of the contributions to communist theory that Stalin is particularly known for are:
The theoretical work concerning nationalities, as seen in Marxism and the National Question,[2]
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So, no matter how many times you offer a wrong, and really obviously ignorant, explanation, you only show yourself to be ill-informed. You probably heard someone somewhere make some dopey argument that Stalin was really a right winger and what was going on then was really fascism, not communism, and it's expedient for you to swallow that bullshit. But, alas, it's about as intelligent an argument as someone saying that Hitler was really a Socialist, cuz, like, it's in the name of the Nazi Party.
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She's also hilariously trying to associate globalism with Hitler. To do that, she has to, as others have pointed out, gloss over that whole genocide thing and focus on the expansion of Germany beyond its borders. It's a preposterous and transparent sleight of hand.Brian Peacock wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2019 6:21 pmYou know, the more I hear about this Hitler bloke the less I like him.
Look, Owens wants to rehabilitate 'nationalism' as a legitimate political term - one that isn't associated with death camps and blond hair. Good luck to her in that misguided venture - but if we're going to take issue with her views lets take issue with what she says rather than what she doesn't. After all, charitability is the first rule of honest discourse.
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I think that attitude can be summed up as, "OMG! People are making stuff cheaper than we are. That's not fair!! The system is rigged... boo hoo... boo hoo boo hoo, boo hoo, bwwaaaaaaaaaaaaa-aaaa-aaaaa-aaah! Mommy!!"
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