On 08/16/2017 09:56 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2017/08/what_the_alt_left_was_actually_doing_in_charlottesville.html
I was intrigued by this tweet: https://twitter.com/veryapetv/status/898240260550909952 Here's the full text for the 1st quote: > Sir, -- Having experienced fascism in the flesh, as a citizen of a > Nazi-occupied country, a member of the resistance and a concentration camp > prisoner, I am profoundly dismayed by Kevin Myers's reflections on the > happenings at TCD on the occasion of the David Irving debate. > > If fascism could be defeated in debate, I assure you that it would never have > happened, neither in Germany, nor in Italy, nor anywhere else. Those who > recognized its threat at that time and tried to stop it were, I assume, also > called "a mob". Regrettably too many "fair-minded people" didn't either try, > or want to stop it, and, as I witnessed myself during the war, accommodated > themselves with it when it took over. > > The anti-fascism of some of these people germinated rather late, in fact only > when they realized that the Third Reich had lost the war, the Führer was > becoming an embarrassment and his system of government a liability. > > People who witnessed fascism at its height are dying out, but the ideology is > still there, and its apologists are working hard at a comeback. Past > experience should teach us that fascism must be stopped before it takes hold > again of too many minds, and becomes useful once again to some powerful > interests, as it happened in the thirties, or in Chile. I am one hundred per > cent behind the students and staff at TCD, and congratulate them for showing > the way. -- Yours, etc., F. L. Frison, 69 Newtown Avenue, Blackrock, Co > Dublin. Here's the snopes entry on the 2nd quote (supposedly from Hitler): http://www.snopes.com/adolf-hitler-smashing-the-nucleus/ And the third quote about clicktivism is just (apt) snark. But there's a big difference between "chasing them away with sticks" and "holding the line". The former is bad. The latter is good. -- gⅼеɳ ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
