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Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)2/01/2013 3:41:26 am PST

re: #66 goddamnedfrank

I just read the article and I have no clue. Just none. What the fuck. I thought maybe the quote was out of context, because even for NRO… jesus.

Nazism may have been an ideology to which the United States was — and to which the president is — implacably opposed, but it is hardly “senseless.” By the early 1930s, the Nazi party had hundreds of thousands of devoted members and repeatedly attracted a third of the votes in German elections; its political leaders campaigned on a platform comprising 25 non-senseless points, including the “unification of all Germans,” a demand for “land and territory for the sustenance of our people,” and an assertion that “no Jew can be a member of the race.” Suffice it to say, many sensible Germans were persuaded.

What she is really, really saying is that the assertion that “new Jew can be a member of the race” is not senseless. It is. It is senseless in that races do not exist, it is senseless in that there is nothing to be gained and everything lost from attempts at racial division and so it is foolish, and it is senseless in the old term meaning that it is without compassion or empathy.

I have no idea what meaning she’s trying to construct for ‘senseless’ here. What she’s clearly trying to say is that Obama, by calling the violence ‘senseless’, is ignoring the Nazis philosophical and political groundwork for their ideology and that this is dangerous. It’s obvious that Obama is not doing that. Obama said “Those who experienced the horrors of the cattle cars, ghettos, and concentration camps have witnessed humanity at its very worst and know too well the pain of losing loved ones to senseless violence.” He was very clearly saying that the violence of the camps, of the Holocaust, was senseless.

The author is saying it wasn’t, that it made sense to murder Jews even while it detracted from the war effort.

NRO reaches a new low, still descending.