Posted on 03/14/2007 8:27:46 PM PDT by blam
Taiwan students form Nazi party
By Richard Spencer in Beijing
Last Updated: 1:28am GMT 15/03/2007
A group of students from Taiwan has caused uproar by founding an avowedly Nazi organisation and boasting that it is inspired by Adolf Hitler.
The National Socialism Association was set up by Lahn Chao, a master's student from the National Chengchi University in the capital, Taipei, and 19 others.
Its website is a call to arms to rejuvenate the island's politics, end democracy and retake mainland China for the nationalist cause, and bears a symbol in black, red and white loosely based on the swastika flag.
It makes few concrete political promises, though website forums contain a large number of links to apparently pornographic websites and online games.
The admiration for Nazism and Hitler the group professes is unlikely to be based on antisemitism, as there has been historically very little Jewish presence in Taiwan.
Mr Chao, who is studying political science, said he was not hostile to Jews but was interested in fostering nationalism and was in favour of limits on the numbers of foreign workers coming to Taiwan.
"I think we have to work hard to restore traditional Chinese values like Confucianism," he said.
"We want to study Hitler's good points, not study his massacres," said another founder member, Yue Shu-ya.
Chiang Kai-shek, who established a 40-year dictatorship on Taiwan after being ousted from the mainland by Mao's Communists, had flirted with fascist symbolism.
Rafi Gamzou, the director of the Israeli representative office in Taipei, said: "This is an upsetting and worrisome phenomenon."
Chinese Nazis. I HATE Chinese Nazis!;)
What?
Militant Islam wasn't bloody enough for them??!!
What if they're in Illinois?
Nice hit piece on Nationalism.
LOL! That's a real short list. Shouldn't take all of thirty seconds to exhaust that area of study.
Guess they didn't read the 6', blond haired, blue eyed Aryan part?
Retake mainland China? Well, at least they're optimists :D
They only come up to your knees however...
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Communists such as Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot et.al. murdered over ten times as many people as the National Socialist, Adolf Hitler. However, many liberals and "progressives" still advocate communism as a viable form of government while any form of National Socialism is universally condemned as murderous lunacy. I find both equally abhorrent. Why is one murderous political philosophy still politically correct while another is not?
This article neglected to mention the same group was also forming a Black Israellites Party and a movement to gain suffrage for Washington DC residents.
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