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1 posted on 02/15/2014 10:09:26 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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His offense there was both against good taste and substance. He has something useful and true to say about the anti-democratic, illiberal, and periodically violent mood of Western anti-capitalism and the American partisans of class warfare, but none of that is very much like Nazism. Not very many things are very much like Nazism.

Very weak and unconvincing attempt by Kevin Williamson to refute Perkins' thesis.

Williamson makes blanket assertions without backing them up. "Not many things are very much like Nazism"? Why? Because today's fascists are not speaking German? Would you prefer using Pol Pot as the example? Would that be in "better taste"?

Williamson is guilty of making a distinction without a difference. The actions and words and goals of liberal fascists look pretty similar to those of the Nazis in the early days when they were consolidating their power. The eliminationist rhetoric is certainly similar. The drive and desire to muzzle their opponents via the use of State-initiated force certainly appears similar. If you replace the leftist demagogues' circumlocution of "the 1%" with "the Jews", exactly how would their sentiments conflict with those of the Nazi demagogues?

Williamson seems to think that it's somehow not polite to compare some peoples' Nazi-like goals with Nazis. Truth-telling (a.k.a. "an offense against good taste") hurts, doesn't it, Kevin?

2 posted on 02/15/2014 10:23:38 AM PST by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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End the IRS; end withholding; end corporate taxes; institute a national sales tax; no exemptions.


3 posted on 02/15/2014 10:28:43 AM PST by Repeal The 17th (We have met the enemy and he is us.)
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bkmk


5 posted on 02/15/2014 12:01:05 PM PST by AllAmericanGirl44
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It’s pure Marxism.

“From each according to his ability, to each according to his need”


8 posted on 02/15/2014 12:26:25 PM PST by djf (OK. Well, now, lemme try to make this clear: If you LIKE your lasagna, you can KEEP your lasagna!)
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