thepothole (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} thepothole) wrote,@ 2009-06-12 09:36:00 |
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Predictable...
So a alleged neo-nazi walks into the Holocaust museum and opens fire.
And the reaction from the right? Oh, he's obviously a leftist. Not kidding. And it's not just Sibby, like I linked to yesterday. It's lots of people on the right who are claiming that Hitler was a leftist, because the party he rode to leadership translates as the "National Socialist German Workers' Party."
This is revisionism of the basest sort. I could claim to be Georgia O'Keefe, but I still can't paint a damn. Hitler and his cronies were demonstrably anti-left, from their shutting down of the labor unions, to their hatred of the communists, to their opposition to all liberals. Read their words! It's pretty obvious.
And even more pernicious is this sort of thing, said on Glenn Beck's little screed of a doom-sayer show by Harry Binswanger of the Ayn Rand Institute, "Well, this Von Brunn's culture is a tribe of racist, anti-Jewish, anti-Negro, anti-immigrant, everything, and therefore he's a phenomenon of the left, because racism is a form of collectivism. The right wing is individualist -- believes in individual rights, freedom, the dignity of each individual life. But it's the left wing -- you know, Hitler was National Socialism, right? It's a leftist phenomenon."
That's right, no one who is on the right wing could possible be racist, anti-semitic, or violent. All hatred in the world is leftist. This is the same crap that lead to that book claiming that Tim McVeigh was actually an Islamic dupe. Oh, and "Islamo-fascists" are left wing, too.
It doesn't help that the Rev. Wright said some stupid things about jews the other day, but we on the left jumped all over him for it. Heck, he was Keith Olbermann's "worst person" last night. When someone on the right says crap like that, they tend to form ranks and blame the media for reporting it. But to use that as "proof" that hate is a left-wing thing only (as Sibby did, quoting Limbaugh) is just beyond absurd.
(And yes, I know I swore to stay away from Sibby, but the Holocaust Museum shooting made me want to go back to see how he would blame people like me.)
So a alleged neo-nazi walks into the Holocaust museum and opens fire.
And the reaction from the right? Oh, he's obviously a leftist. Not kidding. And it's not just Sibby, like I linked to yesterday. It's lots of people on the right who are claiming that Hitler was a leftist, because the party he rode to leadership translates as the "National Socialist German Workers' Party."
This is revisionism of the basest sort. I could claim to be Georgia O'Keefe, but I still can't paint a damn. Hitler and his cronies were demonstrably anti-left, from their shutting down of the labor unions, to their hatred of the communists, to their opposition to all liberals. Read their words! It's pretty obvious.
And even more pernicious is this sort of thing, said on Glenn Beck's little screed of a doom-sayer show by Harry Binswanger of the Ayn Rand Institute, "Well, this Von Brunn's culture is a tribe of racist, anti-Jewish, anti-Negro, anti-immigrant, everything, and therefore he's a phenomenon of the left, because racism is a form of collectivism. The right wing is individualist -- believes in individual rights, freedom, the dignity of each individual life. But it's the left wing -- you know, Hitler was National Socialism, right? It's a leftist phenomenon."
That's right, no one who is on the right wing could possible be racist, anti-semitic, or violent. All hatred in the world is leftist. This is the same crap that lead to that book claiming that Tim McVeigh was actually an Islamic dupe. Oh, and "Islamo-fascists" are left wing, too.
It doesn't help that the Rev. Wright said some stupid things about jews the other day, but we on the left jumped all over him for it. Heck, he was Keith Olbermann's "worst person" last night. When someone on the right says crap like that, they tend to form ranks and blame the media for reporting it. But to use that as "proof" that hate is a left-wing thing only (as Sibby did, quoting Limbaugh) is just beyond absurd.
(And yes, I know I swore to stay away from Sibby, but the Holocaust Museum shooting made me want to go back to see how he would blame people like me.)
