Posted on 02/17/2021 4:51:37 AM PST by MtnClimber
Actress Gina Carano became one of the highest-profile celebrity victims of cancel culture last week, when she was dropped from The Mandalorian, fired by Disney, and dumped by her talent agency. As most people know, Carano’s fatal error was believing she still lived in a society with genuine freedom of expression. Carano’s message was straightforward: Americans are being taught to hate one another, in a manner that disturbingly evokes Germany prior to World War II.
Disney denounced Carano’s post as “abhorrent,” and swiftly kicked her off the show. Reporting on the incident has invited passive bystanders to believe Carano said something anti-Semitic, when of course her post was the exact opposite.
Carano’s post was clumsy, the kind routinely seen from Baby Boomers posting on Facebook. But Carano’s post was ultimately much closer to reality than even her defenders realize. America’s political situation right now carries disturbing similarities to Germany just before the Third Reich. And it isn’t people on the right who resemble Nazis.
But first, a couple things this article is not:
-This is not a rant about “Weimerica.” There are essays claiming that America resembles pre-Nazi Germany based on the rise of transgenderism, a decline in sexual morality, or other social trends. Whether that comparison is valid or not, this essay is focused purely on political culture.
-This is not a shrill claim that “Democrats are Nazis,” that Republicans are treated on par with Jews in Nazi Germany, or anything of the sort. Instead, this is an effort to point out the worrisome and growing parallels between the political culture of late Weimar Germany, and the political culture that America is embracing with more fervor every day.
(Excerpt) Read more at revolver.news ...
"To the Nazi Party, everything was political. "
To democRATs, everything except math is political. Oh, wait!
Who’s Hitler now?
Click on image for Amazon link. Published in 1983. Highly recommended.
ML/NJ
Our politicians at all levels with a D next to their names.
Whatever a “Liberal” accuses you of, is precisely what they are guilty of.
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“...Marxists had introduced emotion and the language of violence into politics; the National Socialists let politics be engulfed by an ocean of passion and a tidal wave of abuse ...there might have been no story of Hitler at all had not outstanding men and forces estimated him highly, for their own purposes...”
E Nolte, “The Three Faces of Fascism”
Why was it clumsy? I am really coming to abhor commentators as they see fit to have to throw a bone to their opposition just for the sake of looking fair. It undermines your argument.
Hitler is the cancel culture ready to doxx you, threaten your family and livelihood and to destroy you utterly for having an opinion that could be as trivial as “Women cannot be men” or “Masks don’t work”.
If Trump was really the Hitler they claimed him to be we wouldn’t have any liberals.. they’d be laid out in mass graves or ashes in an oven.
Revolver referred to Nazis at Right Wing. C’mon man! Stop repeating the LEFTIST lies.
To say the NAZIS were not collectivists is insane. The state was primary under the NAZIS like every other LEFTIST ism.
What is wrong with the Supreme Court that it requires a commission to propose changes?
Why it has a conservative majority, of course.
Rats have always projected, as they were then.
I agree with you, and I also detest the Baby Boomer denigration. I guess all Baby Boomers are clumsy now!
We recently had poor bandwidth on a large extended family Zoom call. I was furious with our son who announced afterward that my husband and I were the only ones who had issues. He insinuated that we don’t understand the latest technology, when we had nothing to do with the technical issue that was causing the problem. Of course, the fact that my husband is on Zoom-type work calls all day every day meant nothing. Then the mantra was, we doth protest too much!
As much as I love my kids, sometimes they are obnoxious and smug. One day they will learn...I hope.
Today's media, big tech, and social media are the Joseph Goebbels's of today. They repeat a lie over and over, and the liberals (the Germans) eat it up, and run with it. They then snitch on their perceived political enemies, dox them, and harass them on the internet to the point that their victims are eventually cancelled. It's 1930's Nazi Germany all over again. Colored tags denoting which "undesirable" group you belong to are coming next.
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