Reuters: David Duke Is An ?American Academic?

Reuters via Say Anything Blog ^ | Dec 11 2006 8:40PM

[Joseph DeMaistre]

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran opened a conference on Monday to examine the Holocaust and question whether Nazi Germany used gas chambers to kill Jews, drawing condemnation in the West and criticism from Iran’s Jewish community. . . .

Among the participants was U.S. academic David Duke, a former Louisiana Republican Representative. He praised Iran for hosting the event.

“There must be freedom of speech, it is scandalous that the Holocaust cannot be discussed freely,” Duke, a former Ku Klux Klan leader told Reuters. “It makes people turn a blind eye to Israel’s crimes against the Palestinian people.”

David Duke is an academic? I’m… speechless. But what more are you going to expect from a news service that refuses to call the monsters who suicide attack our troops and hide behind civilians in Iraq “terrorists.”

And calling him a Republican is a bit of a misnomer too, given that no less than Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush campaigned with his opponent. He may have been on the ticket as a Republican, but he got no help from the GOP.

[Joseph DeMaistre]

Maybe they could do David Duke a favor and take him hostage.

[Wallace T.]

Nazis and fascists are not the extreme right; rather, they are socialists who, unlike the Marxists, want a socialist society on the national level. Another difference with the Marxists is that Nazi and fascist ideology is based on an idealization of the national, racial, or religious community. As an aside, the term Islamofascist is an accurate one. for the Muslim extremists dream of a world dominated not by their co-racialists but by their co-religionists. Hitler cared not whether the Nordic superman was a theist or atheist, and the ayatollahs care not whether the Muslim is white, black, brown, or yellow. In spite of the different bases of ideology, Naziism, fascism, Islamofascism, and Communism produce the same results: a totalitarian state where all those but the ruling elite are subject to every whim of the tyrannical rulers.

Nazis and fascists are merely another gang of thugs, as are the Communists.

[Vinny]

There are few differences between the extreme Right and the extreme Left
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Yes, just like there were few differences between Communism and Nazism.

[stickandpucknut]

That dumb ass doesnt realize that after they kill all the jews his kind is next.

[parisa]

There are few differences between the extreme Right and the extreme Left.

The problem we are facing is that it was the so-called "moderate" Democrats such as Carter and his cohorts who sanctioned and imposed this monstrous of an outcome on Iran and the rest of the world.

[Brilliant]

Before he was a "Republican," he was a Democrat. No mention of that.

[Brilliant]

Yup, he sure is an academic. Methinks he could get professorship at the University of Colorado. They have a history of giving professorships to nutcases.

[GSlob]

Well, a doctorate honoris causa does not make one an academic. Socrates was an academic without any formal degree, so the earned doctorate is not needed either. What is needed is for one to be a professional thinker, preferably in abstract disciplines, and/or a teacher of the same. Does not seem to be the case.

[RightWhale]

it is scandalous that the Holocaust cannot be discussed freely

It is discussed though, isn't it? It is easy to see how it is not a popular topic in many countries, but it's not taboo.

[OldEagle]

"Duke is to academia what Jesse Jackson is to the clergy. "

Probably accurate. I didn't like him. His only plus as I recall is that he took on the welfare system. As a politician, he's gone but welfare is still with us.

[weegee]

Robert Byrd (D), former Klan Kleegle (recruiter).

[elhombrelibre]

Holocaust Denial Is No Joke

[Joseph DeMaistre]

My point is the tactics used by extremists on both ends of the political spectrum are similar. Demonization of enemies, terrorism, intolerance of opposing ideas, etc.

[weegee]

David Duke is hardly the only former Dem who ran as RINO. I don't see him to be extreme right wing. You claim him as being an example of your political wing?

[weegee]

I want to see articles start identifying Hillary Clinton as former Goldwater Republican...

[Joseph DeMaistre]

You claim him as being an example of your political wing?

>>Not in the slightest.

[This_is_not_my_screen_name]

It's an imprisonable offense in most European nations.

[Loud Mime]

Ward Churchill has opened the door for every hate-filled person to be an academic.

[GSlob]

It's not the hate, it's antillectual content. If the content is there, then the rest does not matter that much [similar to Wagner's place in music]. If the content is not there, OTOH, then the "academic" claim is plainly bogus.