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[theweaselking]

"I know that supporters of the currently ruling coalition of crooks, warmongers, torturers, incompetents, and theocrats are deeply, deeply hurt when they and their pet politicians are compared to Nazis. But could someone suggest to them — politely, of course — that it would help if they stopped borrowing Nazi iconography and phraseology?"

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Comments

[toku666.livejournal.com]

Weak.

Ramirez has his head firmly and unrepentantly up his ass (since he clearly falls into the 30% (or less) of "base" Bush supporters) but this is a stretch.

It's disgusting on its face, but "Nazi iconography?" Please.

[eididdy.livejournal.com]

I'm confused: Since when is the phrase and/or depiction of someone being "stabbed in the back" exclusive to Nazis?

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Did you miss the 1920s and 1930s?

It's not just "someone has been stabbed in the back". It's "our loyal fighting forces lost the war because they were stabbed in the back by venal and corrupt politicians back home who hated them, and that's why you should mindlessly support [Insert Party Here] and their leader!"

[ed-dirt.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, but that's just a tad too much of a stretch for me.

Bush/Cheney/The Far Right are behaving in lots of ways that parallel the Nazis, but this is just reaching.

[eididdy.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I hope you're aware of how much of a stretch that is.

[unknownpoltroon.livejournal.com]

A bit of a stretch that they are using the same image? Yes. A bit of a stretch that the are using the same rhetoric? No.

[eididdy.livejournal.com]

A bit of a stretch that "stabbed in the back" is somehow exclusive to Nazism.

[kjn]

Actually, the dolchstoß meme is far from unique to neither the nazis nor current-day US. In the US, it appeared after the Vietnam war as well, it was used in France after de Gaulle withdrew from Algeria (at least within segments of the military), and probably has been used in far more cases.

It's a handy way to absolve the military from any blame for a defeat.

Normally I find myself in agreement with you.. but...

[chrisrw109.livejournal.com]

Godwin's Law

[atlasimpure.livejournal.com]

That Jewish guy has a nice rack.