At least some of the commenters disagreed with the article, and a few of them actually saw what was wrong with the argument. However, it wasn't the majority.
It takes a peculiar kind of mind to start with "I dislike this overuse of the word 'senseless'" but end up at "yanno, those Nazi guys weren't so bad". Only at the National Review!
Germans are a race now? A nation, certainly (although that's historically recent) but a race? It's like... saying I'm a member of the race of Ontarioins. Ontarioites. Peoples of Ontario. Whatever.
Surely it's 'the Ontarions'. If we must subdivide our smudgily differentiable selves by artificial categories, we can at least make them sound like giant robots.
Yeah, it's at that point of the article that my brain actually exploded out of my skull and threatened to run away if I didn't stop reading.
I'm not sure what kind of editorial policy they have that let that slip by.
I also like the part where he conflates '“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.”' with 'the left thinks all violence is senseless.
Kind of hard to make that argument, given that everyone on the left would acknowledge that it took violence to take down the Nazis.
Senseless violence is bad != All Violence is senseless.
Well... I am.. but I guess I have a hard time accepting that stupidity truly has no bounds.
Call me an optimist, I've always hoped that y'know... eventually... even truly stupid, hypocritcal and evil has it's limits.
(edited, because honestly, it's not just stupidity, it's evil and hypocritical and my previous word suggested that they might be blameless and their choices accidental)
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Date: 2013-01-29 06:04 am (UTC)Uh... "may have been"? If nothing else, that phrase makes it clear where the writer stands.
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Date: 2013-01-29 04:46 pm (UTC)I'm not sure what kind of editorial policy they have that let that slip by.
I also like the part where he conflates '“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.”' with 'the left thinks all violence is senseless.
Kind of hard to make that argument, given that everyone on the left would acknowledge that it took violence to take down the Nazis.
Senseless violence is bad != All Violence is senseless.
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Date: 2013-01-29 04:53 pm (UTC)You're evidently not familiar with The National Review.
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Date: 2013-01-29 08:46 pm (UTC)Call me an optimist, I've always hoped that y'know... eventually... even truly stupid, hypocritcal and evil has it's limits.
(edited, because honestly, it's not just stupidity, it's evil and hypocritical and my previous word suggested that they might be blameless and their choices accidental)
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