The scariest thing for me about reading *Mein Kampf* was that about halfway
through the book I found myself nodding and muttering, "Mm-hmm, good point."
When I realized what I was doing, I slammed the book shut in one hell of a
hurry, crying "Get thee behind me, Satan!" It wasn't so much that the book
made *sense*--it didn't--but that it was fiercely, even jesuitically,
logical. Unfortunately, some of the most viciously racist, sexist,
homophobic, etc. arguments one hears around the Net (many of them right here
on CTRL) fall into that same category: intensely logical, but lacking any
common sense whatsoever. It should also be noted that the perpetrators of
such trash are the most hypersensitive people on the Net, taking offense at
the slightest suggestion that there might be another point of view. To
them, it seems, "freedom" means the right to agree with them; they will
brook no opposition. The Nazis believed they were setting the German people
free, after all, and the Germans bought that lie for twelve long years. It
took the combined military might of the entire world to convince them
otherwise...and there are too many people, in Europe and elsewhere, who even
today remain unconvinced of the fallacy of the Nazi lie. If you doubt how
easily even a country like the United States, dedicated to individual
freedom, could slip into fascist dictatorship, consider what it would be
like to have Pat Buchanan as president. Fascism is the result of the
marriage of leftist economics (socialism or some variant of state economic
control) and virulent nationalism. If you doubt that a real fascist state
could arise here, read Sinclair Lewis's *It Can't Happen Here*, and then
read today's newspaper.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alamaine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, May 01, 2000 5:31 PM
Subject: Re: [CTRL] ANIMAL RIGHTS PAGANS ENDORSE CARA
<snip>
>
...What's really
> troublesome about this identifying one or more groups as being 'evil' is
> recalling the headache I got from trying to get past page 35 in *Mein
Kampf*.
>
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