re: #717 Dark_Falcon

In so say, he’s not approving of the neo-fascists of the Vlaams Belaag and others, he’s saying that given the situation violence by such groups is highly likely to happen. I think that the totality of America Alone makes it clear that Mark Steyn would very much like to avoid violence and clearly does not like it in any way. However, he does believe that the situation in Europe has made large scale violence likely.

DF, not to go all Godwin on you, but people would (and did, and do) say the same thing about the ‘totality’ of Mein Kampf or Hitler’s speeches about the ‘Jewish Question’: he portrayed the final solution and eliminationism as an ‘unavoidable necessity’ should ‘the Jews bring about’ a situation requiring it.

Steyn isn’t Hitler, of course. But there are many reasons to find him suspect, and many writings of his that are just not acceptable.

i don’t think she’d mind me saying this, (I hope not) but medaura and I had a private conversation some months ago in which we agreed that Steyn was a major danger to the conservative movement, precisely because so many otherwise rational people take him seriously and remain unaware of his associations and more extremist connections.