tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6910609762453184627.post4450380881725887218..comments2023-12-28T09:22:34.081+00:00Comments on They're Joking. Aren't They?: Orinoco The ImpalerNorth Northwesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10990919627286136085noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6910609762453184627.post-3394118013230115402009-10-09T18:56:04.784+01:002009-10-09T18:56:04.784+01:00Welcome AgainsTTheWall, and thanks for your commen...Welcome AgainsTTheWall, and thanks for your comment.<br />Um, I'm trying to understand it, but with only my brain to help me. Perhaps you're going to have to draw me a picture. Pretty please?North Northwesterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10990919627286136085noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6910609762453184627.post-70218087645086943022009-10-09T14:43:02.478+01:002009-10-09T14:43:02.478+01:00"...that Hitler might have been irredeemably ..."...that Hitler might have been irredeemably evil: either bad to the bone and the product of centuries of European anti-Semitism or just an amoral opportunist who picked an electoral winner and ended up killing millions. " <br /><br />Oop its cartoon time!AgainsTTheWallnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6910609762453184627.post-79694496109753105202009-10-08T19:41:39.375+01:002009-10-08T19:41:39.375+01:00Hi Banned. Thanks for your comment.
Well, I for o...Hi Banned. Thanks for your comment.<br /><br />Well, I for one don't blame Hitler solely for anti-Semitism, hence "centuries of European anti-Semitism" bit. Christendom long blamed the Jews for Jesus' death, and in a few places some Christians still do - but very few in the Reformed West these days, I think. Islam, of course, has it up to the gills to this day. <br /><br />I'm not so sure about the Polish anti-Semitic fascism thing: not because some of it didn't happen, the boycotts and all, but because its extent and extremity were much less, of course, than what led to the Holocaust. What could be nearly as bad, outside Islamofascist plans afoot in Iran and no doubt Pakistan! <br /><br />I also question the depth of anti-Semitism in the Polish character because the Soviets and their western sympathisers and agents made much of it over the decades leading to he fall of the Iron Curtain.<br /><br />It was used:<br />A) to absolve the Reds from their joint invasion of Poland alongside the Nazis,<br />B) to hide utterly Stalin's own anti-Semitic purges agasint 'rootless cosmopolitans,' <br />C)to slander Polish Israelis such as Menachem Begin during the Cold War as little better than the Nazis, and <br />D) to demoralize the West in its support for Solidarity and the other anti-Soviet freedom movements in the 1980s and 1990s. <br /><br />Of course a thing can be true and still be used by evil men: the Devil can quote scripture to serve his own ends and all that, but given the very tainted source, I've tended to take such stories with a truckload of Siberian salt.<br /><br />Still, I live and learn, and will read up more on it.North Northwesterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10990919627286136085noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6910609762453184627.post-84467112218074946612009-10-08T18:07:18.159+01:002009-10-08T18:07:18.159+01:00Michael Jackson and Hitler - mind boggles.Michael Jackson and Hitler - mind boggles.James Highamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14525082702330365464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6910609762453184627.post-68179262519499672912009-10-08T05:05:35.714+01:002009-10-08T05:05:35.714+01:00On the subject of "the product of centuries o...On the subject of "the product of centuries of European anti-Semitism " isn't it time we stopped blaming just one evil man ( Hitler ) for Europes mid 20th century crisis and remind ourselves that poor little Poland was also an anti-Jewish facist state with France not far behind. Hitler empowered anti-Semites, he did not create them.bannedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02406037760273820029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6910609762453184627.post-42159562036890783052009-10-07T07:29:18.404+01:002009-10-07T07:29:18.404+01:00Mac, on second glimpse at earlier draughts, I put ...Mac, on second glimpse at earlier draughts, I put something like what I have now put: "cosying up with the Honduran would-be president for life, and Hugo Chavez the democracy hater, the Castros, " Honduran would-be president for life being Manuel Zelaya trying to get another term and recommence the Latin American cycle of dictatorship. <br />I really should write more clearly, shouldn't I?<br />Thanks for the heads up, though!North Northwesterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10990919627286136085noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6910609762453184627.post-83866302118688234372009-10-06T17:23:39.799+01:002009-10-06T17:23:39.799+01:00"...cosying up with the Honduran would-be pre..."...cosying up with the Honduran would-be president for life, Hugo Chavez"<br /><br />Er, Venezualan...<br /><br />Otherwise - yup.Mac the Knifehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01981281686243507802noreply@blogger.com