Doug wrote:
On Sep 11, 2007, at 2:28 PM, David B. Shemano wrote:
I did want to note the irony (if that's the right word) of Doug
Henwood complaining when anti-Israel critics are accused of being
Nazis, and Jim Devine contemporaneously calling Israel "one of the
worst kinds of ethnic nationalist regimes currently on earth,"
which I think a reasonable reader would interpret as a Nazi
analogy. So apparently it is unfair rhetoric for somebody to call
your side Nazis, but okay rhetoric to call the other side Nazis,
and if anybody calls you a Nazi for calling them a Nazi, that
proves they are a Nazi.
Wow, that's really dumb. I'm almost speechless at how utterly dumb
that is...
What amazing stupidity! Jim's modest factual description specifically
included the word "currently"--and there are *currently* no Nazi
regimes on earth, so the analogy, if any, is to other *current*
ethnic nationalist regimes like Kouchner's darling Kossovo, or
Fidel's
darling Zimbabwe. Even more amazingly stupid is to say that
finding a analogy between phenomenon A and phenomenon B is
somehow equivalent to claiming the identity of A and B!
...No one called Israel "Nazi," and it's a plain statement of
fact that Israel is an ethnic-nationalist regime. What else do you
call a state that provides subsidized housing to people born in
Brooklyn because they're the right "nationality" (and "Jewish" is a
nationality unlike any other, but leave that aside) yet evicts people
whose families have been in the area for centuries because they're
the wrong "nationality"? I'd think a libertarian might object to that
use of state power.
Shane Mage
"Thunderbolt steers all things...It consents and does not
consent to be called
Zeus."
Herakleitos of Ephesos
