London&#8217;s Victoria &amp; Albert Museum took some serious backlash over the weekend after it was reported that an exhibit on British humor had included the late Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher alongside Osama bin Laden and Adolf Hitler in a short list of &#8220;contemporary villains.&#8221;
The exhibit, which was meant to show how British humor had evolved over time, showcased Victorian &#8220;Punch &amp; Judy&#8221; puppets along with a caption that included the following:
<blockquote>Over the years, the evil character in this seaside puppet show has shifted from the Devil to unpopular public figures including Adolf Hitler, Margaret Thatcher and Osama bin Laden, to offer contemporary villains.</blockquote>
Critics were quick to address the issue, with many noting that whatever people thought of Thatcher — Britain&#8217;s first female prime minister — she hardly belonged on a short list of &#8220;villains&#8221; that only included 9/11 architect and al Qaeda terrorist bin Laden and Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler.
Nile Gardiner, former aide to Thatcher, argued that the museum should lose access to any government funding over the display. &#8220;The V&amp; A should have its public funding taken away because it&#8217;s engaging here in political activity,&#8221; he said.
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&#39;The V&amp;A should have its public funding taken away because it&#39;s engaging here in political activity.&#39;
Former aide to Margaret Thatcher, Nile Gardiner, reacts to the V&amp;A exhibition listing Margaret Thatcher as a &#39;contemporary villain&#39; alongside Hitler and Osama Bin Laden. <a href="https://t.co/ZEXjmguHIv">pic.twitter.com/ZEXjmguHIv</a>
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Deputy leader of Reform UK, Ben Habib, argued that whatever one thought of Thatcher&#8217;s politics, she was an important part of Britain&#8217;s history. He added, &#8220;Whoever made this decision should be sacked.&#8221;
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&#39;Whoever made this decision should be sacked&#39;.
Deputy leader of Reform UK, Ben Habib, reacts to a V&amp;A exhibition that named Margaret Thatcher, alongside Adolf Hitler and Osama Bin Laden, as a &#39;contemporary villain&#39;. <a href="https://t.co/yjsshZVRLR">pic.twitter.com/yjsshZVRLR</a>
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&#8220;It’s staggeringly offensive to bracket Britain’s first female Prime Minister with a genocidal maniac and a terrorist,&#8221; Telegraph associate editor Camilla Tominey <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/03/16/victoria-albert-museum-margaret-thatcher-exhibition/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>.
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🖊 &quot;Why does the V&amp;A think Margaret Thatcher is a villain equivalent to Hitler?&quot;
&quot;It’s staggeringly offensive to bracket Britain’s first female Prime Minister with a genocidal maniac and a terrorist&quot;
Read the full column from <a href="https://twitter.com/CamillaTominey?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CamillaTominey</a> below ⬇️ <a href="https://t.co/lsbcPbJ630">https://t.co/lsbcPbJ630</a>
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&#8220;Whoever wrote that caption should be called out publicly for being a moron, or perhaps more usefully sent to read a Ladybird book of modern world history. It is sadly symptomatic of the woke, luvvie-dom nonsense that persists in our public institutions,&#8221; Sir Connor Burns, a former trade minister and Conservative MP said. &#8220;They should be given a serious rap across the knuckles and a clarion instruction to grow up.&#8221;
According to a <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13207861/Anger-museum-lists-Margaret-Thatcher-Punch-Judy-villain-alongside-Hitler-Bin-Laden.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> published Sunday by The Daily Mail, the V&amp;A took in the majority of it&#8217;s funding from the government through the Department of Culture — to the tune of £67 million — in the last year.

Thatcher In Thought

London Museum Showcases ‘Contemporary Villains’: Hitler, Bin Laden, And … Margaret Thatcher?

London Museum Showcases 'Contemporary Villains': Hitler, Bin Laden, And ... Margaret Thatcher?

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Joy Behar appeared to blame a joke made by 44th President Barack Obama for the rise of his successor, 45th President Donald Trump — and then she compounded the analogy by suggesting that silent film star Charlie Chaplin was somehow responsible for the rise of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler.
Behar made the comments during Tuesday&#8217;s broadcast of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View,&#8221; saying that she believed mocking certain people made them desperate to claim power in retaliation for being made the butt of the joke.
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&quot;Comedian&quot; Joy Behar warns that comedy can create dictators. She blames Obama at the WHCD for creating Trump and blames Charlie Chaplin for creating Hitler and the Holocaust: &quot;Charlie Chaplin made fun of Hitler in 1940. By 1945 millions and millions of people were dead!&quot; <a href="https://t.co/07aixpoKgr">pic.twitter.com/07aixpoKgr</a>
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Behar began the segment by complaining that, in her lifetime, Trump was one of &#8220;the most dangerous&#8221; people ever to have occupied the Oval Office.
&#8220;He is probably the most dangerous,&#8221; she said. &#8220;So you have somebody like – and he doesn&#8217;t have a good sense of humor — we all know that at the correspondents&#8217; dinner, when President Obama made a joke about him, his skin is thinner than his hair, and he got so pissed off that he had to run for president and go after poor Obama, who was running this country. He&#8217;s a menace. So &#8230; I present that to the panel: what are you supposed to do?&#8221;
Co-host Sara Haines weighed in, saying that comedy was where people should go when politics and other stresses took over. Noting that politics and media often sought to divide people — intentionally, in many cases — she said that comedy was where people could come together.
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&#8220;Sara, that is true. That&#8217;s what I&#8217;m trying to say here,&#8221; Behar continued. &#8220;But the man doesn&#8217;t take it —&#8221;
&#8220;Doesn&#8217;t it make it more funny?&#8221; co-host Sunny Hostin asked, arguing that Trump getting outraged over jokes made them funnier.
&#8220;They made fun of Hitler, Charlie Chaplin made fun of Hitler in 1940,&#8221; Behar pushed back, adding, &#8220;By 1945 millions and millions of people were dead!&#8221;
&#8220;The audience needs to laugh. The people need to laugh,&#8221; Haines protested. &#8220;I don&#8217;t care, I&#8217;m not checking on Trump.&#8221;
&#8220;But it makes him so angry I don&#8217;t know what he&#8217;s going to do next,&#8221; Behar said. &#8220;You can make a joke about him, and he&#8217;ll annihilate the whole world.&#8221;

ABC’s “The View” – Season 25

Joy Behar Blames Obama For Trump — And Charlie Chaplin For Hitler

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Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler may be the most infamous villain in world history. He perpetrated the Holocaust, unleashed a reign of totalitarian oppression over most of Europe, and initiated the most destructive conflict the world has ever seen.
Ian Kershaw, a distinguished historian widely regarded as one of the foremost experts on Hitler and the Nazi regime, has <a href="https://www.firstthings.com/article/2001/03/hitler-nemesis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">referred</a> to him as &#8220;the embodiment of modern political evil.&#8221; The accuracy of that assessment is showcased by the fact that partisans of all political stripes (though it is especially favored by the Left to refer to anything even remotely Right-of-center) use <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-says-trump-is-a-nazi-thats-not-going-to-work" target="_blank" rel="noopener">comparisons to Hitler</a> and his ideology as the ultimate slander against their opponents.
In fact, as many have pointed out, the comparison has become <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/facts-ep-3-fascism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">so ubiquitous</a> that in many ways it has lost its effectiveness as a political epithet. Additionally, to rely on a single historical reference to embody evil diminishes public awareness of other psychopathic despots (especially Left-wing ones) who have rampaged through history, even in the last century.
So, here is a non-exhaustive list of tyrants of the 20th Century who we can reference besides Hitler.
<h4>Vladimir Lenin</h4>
Vladimir Lenin orchestrated the first, but by no means last, successful communist revolution and forged what would become the Soviet Union in a tide of violence and repression.
The Bolsheviks <a href="https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/october-revolution/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">launched</a> the October Revolution of 1917 to overthrow the Provisional Government of Russia, which had ruled the country since Tsar Nicholas II abdicated during the February Revolution earlier in the year. The communists quickly seized control of Petrograd (today St. Petersburg) and Moscow, but the country soon descended into a bloody and chaotic <a href="https://www.britannica.com/event/Russian-Civil-War" target="_blank" rel="noopener">civil war</a> as anti-communist factions — ranging from moderate socialists to monarchists to anarchists and separatists — resisted the new government.
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On the orders of Lenin and other top Bolsheviks, soldiers of the newly formed Red Army seized food, property, and other valuables from peasants in order to support the war effort, creating famine and destitution throughout large swathes of the country.
Lenin oversaw the creation of <a href="https://history.blog.gov.uk/2017/12/20/whats-the-context-20-december-1917-formation-of-the-cheka-the-first-soviet-security-and-intelligence-agency/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the Cheka</a>, the Soviet Union&#8217;s first secret police, and during the civil war it carried out mass arrests, torture and executions in order to suppress any political opponents of the new regime. The Cheka also founded and ran the USSR&#8217;s infamous prison labor system — the gulags.
Lenin also endorsed the murder of the former tsar, his wife, and their five children in July 1918 as anti-communist forces approached the location where they were being held prisoner by the Bolsheviks.
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The Russian Civil War lasted more than 5 years and <a href="https://www.britannica.com/event/Russian-Civil-War" target="_blank" rel="noopener">caused</a> the deaths of up to 10 million people — five times the number of Russians who died in World War I.
Though his reign over the nascent Soviet Union was relatively short, a little over 6 years, Lenin&#8217;s ruthlessness provided a blueprint for Left-wing dictators who rose to power throughout the century, most infamously his successor.
<h4>Joseph Stalin</h4>
Joseph Stalin&#8217;s rise to power in the aftermath of Lenin&#8217;s death in 1924 foreshadowed his own brutal tenure as the leader of the Soviet Union. He <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Joseph-Stalin">supplanted</a> and eventually exiled Lenin&#8217;s preferred successor, Leon Trotsky, and had several of his other opponents demoted and replaced by allies.
Once he secured his position as leader of the Soviet Union, Stalin embarked on a program of collectivization, the forced consolidation of individual farms into large, state-controlled collectives. Along with this policy, Stalin <a href="https://soviethistory.msu.edu/1929-2/collectivization/collectivization-texts/stalin-on-the-liquidation-of-the-kulak/">called</a> for the elimination of prosperous peasants known as kulaks &#8220;as a class.&#8221; Though these farmers were rarely much better off than their neighbors, Stalin designated them as class enemies, and the new secret police, the NKVD, carried out mass arrests and deportations of the kulaks, which resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths.
Soviet collectivization of agriculture under Stalin also caused a massive famine that afflicted Ukraine and southern Russia from 1930 to 1933. Known as <a href="https://cla.umn.edu/chgs/holocaust-genocide-education/resource-guides/holodomor">the Holodomor</a> in Ukraine, the Great Soviet Famine killed an <a href="https://www.nber.org/digest/202110/disproportionate-death-ukrainians-soviet-great-famine">estimated</a> 10 million people, of which roughly 4 million were Ukrainians. The legislatures of dozens of countries, including the <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-resolution/435">United States</a>, recognize the Holodomor as a genocide against the Ukrainian people.
Though he had dealt with Trotsky (eventually having him assassinated in Mexico in 1940), Stalin still feared internal opposition to his rule, causing him to instigate <a href="https://www.britannica.com/event/Great-Purge" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Great Purge</a> in 1936.
Stalin once again deployed the NKVD to hunt down and terrorize his enemies, real and imagined. Dozens of high-ranking Soviet officials, including several original Bolsheviks who had helped Lenin seize power in 1917, were found guilty in show trials and executed for supposedly conspiring to overthrow Stalin.
The purge unleashed a wave of paranoia throughout the country, and suspicion soon extended to the military, ethnic minorities, and even the general population. By the time Stalin declared in 1938 that the internal threat to the Soviet Union had been suppressed, at least <a href="https://www.history.com/topics/european-history/great-purge" target="_blank" rel="noopener">700,000 people</a> had died.
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As a result of the Great Purge, the gulag system founded under Lenin exploded into the infamous &#8220;Gulag Archipelago&#8221; as more and more people were accused of being counter-revolutionaries. Of the estimated 17 million people who <a href="https://apnews.com/general-news-b2adacb992004f4aaa4c739ec3f4629a" target="_blank" rel="noopener">were sent</a> to the gulags between 1930 and 1953, between 1.2 and 1.7 million <a href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Gulag" target="_blank" rel="noopener">died</a> in the camps.
The Soviet Union invaded Poland along with Nazi Germany in September 1939 as part of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, which facilitated the partition of Eastern Europe between the two countries and their cooperation until the German invasion of Russia in 1941. Stalin <a href="https://www.archives.gov/research/foreign-policy/katyn-massacre" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ordered</a> the mass execution of Polish prisoners-of-war who had been captured during the invasion, and NKVD agents killed over 20,000 Poles during the Katyn Massacre in April and May 1940.
Stalin continued his totalitarian policies during World War II, in which anyone accused of questioning his leadership was severely punished and collaborators with the Nazis were killed or sent to the gulags. Arrests of political dissidents, carried out by a succession of increasingly monstrous NKVD directors, continued right up to Stalin&#8217;s death.
After he rose to power in the wake of Stalin&#8217;s death in 1953, Nikita Khrushchev <a href="https://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/document/khrushchevs-secret-speech-cult-personality-and-its-consequences-delivered-twentieth-party" target="_blank" rel="noopener">denounced</a> Stalin&#8217;s barbarity and embarked on a campaign of de-Stalinization to dismantle his policies. Estimates on exactly how many people during the Stalin era vary greatly, with most historians placing the <a href="https://www.history.com/topics/european-history/joseph-stalin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">death toll</a> between 6 million and 20 million.
<h4>Mao Zedong</h4>
In 1949, the Chinese communists led by Mao Zedong — after a decades-long civil war — forced the Chinese Nationalists under Chiang Kai-Shek to retreat to Taiwan, cementing communist control over the Chinese mainland.
After a period of relative openness designed to bait opponents of the regime into publicly criticizing the CCP, Mao <a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-silence-that-preceded-chinas-great-leap-into-famine-51898077/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declared</a> the Anti-Rightist Campaign in 1957 to root out anyone who opposed communist rule or collectivization. Between half a million and 2 million people were arrested during the campaign, and hundreds of thousands died due to starvation or ill-treatment during captivity.
Mao&#8217;s most destructive program was <a href="https://www.britannica.com/money/topic/Great-Leap-Forward" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Great Leap Forward</a>, which was intended to transform China from an agriculture-based economy to an industrial powerhouse that could compete with the Soviet Union and the West. The central government set unattainable production quotas for both industry and agriculture, causing lower-level bureaucrats overseeing the programs to take more food from peasants and overwork factory laborers. Out of fear of being labeled anti-communist or, more importantly, anti-Mao, many officials refused to report failures and fabricated data to meet the quotas.
Anyone who opposed the Great Leap Forward could be arrested, tortured, conscripted into forced labor battalions, or summarily executed by the communist overseers. The program was a complete economic disaster, plunging tens of millions of Chinese into grinding poverty.
Because the cadres didn&#8217;t report food shortages and took more food from peasants to fill the outlandish quotas, famine broke out across China. The Great Chinese Famine lasted from 1959 to 1961 and is widely considered one of the worst famines in human history. Scholars continue to debate the exact death toll, but <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1127087/#:~:text=Extent%20of%20famine&amp;text=More%20detailed%20later%20studies%20came,totals%20closer%20to%2040%20million." target="_blank" rel="noopener">most estimates</a> fall between 15 and 55 million deaths from the famine alone.
It wasn&#8217;t until 1981, 5 years after Mao&#8217;s death, that the CCP officially <a href="https://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/document/resolution-certain-questions-history-our-party-founding-peoples-republic-china" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recognized</a> that the famine had been primarily caused by policies implemented during the Great Leap Forward.
Much like Stalin, Mao eventually became paranoid about the threat of internal threats to his absolute power. He insisted that capitalists and conservatives had infiltrated Chinese society and called on young people to purge the country of any elements that might threaten communism, launching the <a href="https://www.britannica.com/event/Cultural-Revolution" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cultural Revolution</a>. Units of Red Guards, usually comprised of university students, targeted local government officials, teachers, community elders, and even parents who were accused of not being sufficiently dedicated to Chairman Mao.
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Though struggle sessions, in which someone accused of disloyalty to communism was forced to admit their crimes and subjected to public ridicule and abuse, had been a tactic used by the CCP to force ideological conformity for decades, the practice became infamous during the Cultural Revolution. Heretofore committed Chinese communists were suddenly accused of not being ideologically pure enough or being secret capitalists, hauled out into a public space, and harangued by their neighbors. They were most often imprisoned afterward, but in many instances they were executed by the government or killed on the spot by the mob.
Massacres of suspected traitors took place across China, and in the southern province of Guangxi hundreds of instances of cannibalism were <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/06/world/a-tale-of-red-guards-and-cannibals.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Millions were imprisoned or persecuted by the Red Guards, driving thousands to suicide. Overall, between 500,000 and 2 million people died as a result of the Cultural Revolution.
Much like Stalin&#8217;s Great Purge, the Cultural Revolution served to cement Mao&#8217;s position as the undisputed leader of the country.
By the time Mao died in 1976, an <a href="https://www.heritage.org/asia/commentary/the-legacy-mao-zedong-mass-murder" target="_blank" rel="noopener">estimated</a> 65 million people had died as a result of his regime of terror and subjugation.
Lenin, Stalin, and Mao are all synonymous with communist brutality in the 20th century. Each of them displayed just as much cruelty, ruthlessness, and disregard for human life as Hitler did during his vicious domination of Europe. Though references to Stalin and Mao are made in political discourse, they pale in comparison to those accusing someone or an idea of being Hitler-esque. And the crimes of these men deserve just as much scrutiny and public awareness as those of Hitler and the Nazis. More frequent references to these despots not only phases out the tired Hitler trope, but it can also help point out the horrendous atrocities carried out in the name of communist utopia.

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Tired Of Comparing Your Political Enemies To Hitler? Here Are Some Other Evil Despots Worth Mentioning – Part I

Tired Of Comparing Your Political Enemies To Hitler? Here Are Some Other Evil Despots Worth Mentioning - Part I

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George Alan Kelly is a 75-year-old rancher who lived for more than a decade on a 170-acre property in Kino Springs, Arizona, which is just over a mile from the southern border. On January 13, 2023, Kelly sent a text message to his son, telling him that he had spotted &#8220;33 drug runners&#8221; on the property.
The message itself was nothing out of the ordinary. For years, Kelly had made similar complaints about illegal migrants trespassing at his ranch on their way into the United States. Sometimes, Kelly told his family members, these migrants were armed. But on this particular occasion, Kelly made an unusual request. He asked his son if he could drive up and help defend the property. His son replied, &#8220;Nope. Be careful.&#8221; Kelly&#8217;s next <a href="https://www.kold.com/2023/08/11/texts-reveal-mindset-arizona-rancher-accused-murder/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">text</a>: &#8220;Careful is not an option. It is either fight or run, and I’m too old to run. Mom is locked and loaded also.&#8221;
Seventeen days later, yet another group of illegal migrants trespassed onto Kelly&#8217;s ranch. This time it was at least three people, probably more. Kelly <a href="https://santacruzcountyaz.gov/DocumentCenter/View/17385/CR-23-026-Reply-in-suppor-of-states-motion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> authorities that he was frightened because he had heard gunfire earlier in the day from a larger group of migrants. So, to warn this new group of migrants away, Kelly fired a series of warning shots with his rifle. One of those shots, authorities allege, killed a 48-year-old illegal alien from Mexico. This illegal alien had been arrested and deported several times from the United States, but he was able to keep coming back to this country because the White House decided not to enforce immigration law.
This week, George Alan Kelly <a href="https://people.com/murder-trial-set-as-az-rancher-waves-plea-deal-for-fatal-shooting-of-migrant-near-border-8422922" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rejected</a> a plea deal offered by prosecutors. They wanted him to plead guilty to negligent homicide and serve eight years in prison. But he told them no. So Kelly&#8217;s trial for murder will take place in a couple of months.
Whatever you think of George Alan Kelly or his case — and personally I think the man shouldn’t spend one single second in jail for defending his property from invasion — there&#8217;s no denying that the Biden administration deliberately created the circumstances that led to the shooting. This is an elderly man with no criminal history, who was trying to protect his wife from criminals the Biden administration repeatedly encouraged to trespass on his property. No one disputes that.
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Unsurprisingly, though, when he delivered a speech in South Carolina yesterday on the topic of systemic injustice in the United States, Joe Biden did not mention George Alan Kelly. In fact, as far as I can tell, Joe Biden has never mentioned Kelly a single time. Instead, Biden devoted his entire speech to what he calls the greatest threat facing this country: something called &#8220;white supremacy.&#8221; This white supremacy, Biden argued, is a far greater danger to the United States than the wide-open southern border, which allows foreign criminals to terrorize American citizens and invade their property. To that end, Biden spoke extensively about a mass shooting that took place in that church nearly a decade ago, in 2015. Watch:
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President Biden condemns white supremacy while speaking at the site of the 2015 racist massacre at a Charleston church:
“White supremacy … it is a poison. Throughout our history, it&#39;s ripped this nation apart. This has no place in America — not today, tomorrow, or ever.” <a href="https://t.co/XD69bUTIBp">pic.twitter.com/XD69bUTIBp</a>
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White supremacy is a poison, Biden says. It&#8217;s tearing the fabric of this country apart. And to prove that point — to prove how pervasive and all-encompassing white supremacy is — Biden began talking about a mass shooting that occurred in 2015. There have been a lot of shootings and homicides since then. Well over 100,000 homicides in the nine years since that shooting. A hugely disproportionate number of those victims have been black. But Biden isn’t interested in talking about that, because, of course, a hugely disproportionate number of the people killing those black people are also black. So instead we go back to 2015, to make the point about white supremacy.
Biden is also of course not interested in talking about all the mass shootings that have been committed by trans-identifying mass shooters since 2015. There have been several of those. And Biden certainly isn&#8217;t talking about the killer who <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/01/us/cleveland-texas-neighbor-shooting-monday/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mowed down</a> five people last year in Texas, including a nine-year-old boy. Yes, the killer had been deported four times before once again entering the U.S. illegally. But that&#8217;s not the point, Biden says. He doesn&#8217;t want you thinking about the preventable, systemic failures of his administration. Instead, he wants you to focus on the one mass shooting he pretends to care about, so he can demonize men who look like George Alan Kelly.
At this point you have to ask — does anyone actually buy this anymore? It&#8217;s not 2020. Most people seem to have come down from the hysteria they experienced after George Floyd’s overdose death. Many people seem to have had some time to come to their senses. So does this still work? If I were to list the top 5,000 problems facing the United States in 2024, white supremacy wouldn&#8217;t get close to making the list. Does anyone seriously think otherwise at this point?
You&#8217;re not supposed to linger on what Biden said, of course. You&#8217;re supposed to get outraged about a church shooting from a decade ago, and conclude that white people are a big problem. Joe Biden&#8217;s handlers are going for emotion, not reason. But it&#8217;s important to dwell on this for a little bit, just to underscore how totally and completely dishonest Biden&#8217;s position is. Even if you use the Left&#8217;s data and pretend it&#8217;s all accurate, there&#8217;s still no conceivable argument that &#8220;white supremacy&#8221; is a significant threat in this country, or that any of our major problems can be traced back to it.
Consider a <a href="https://www.adl.org/resources/report/murder-and-extremism-united-states-2022" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from Left-wing ADL, which is effectively an arm of the Democratic Party, from last year. The report states that: &#8220;All the extremist-related murders in 2022 were committed by right-wing extremists.&#8221; And of those murders, the ADL reports, 80% were committed by white supremacists.
Well, that sounds pretty bad. Reuters certainly thought so. They wrote up a whole <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/white-supremacists-behind-over-80-extremism-related-us-murders-2022-2023-02-23/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> with this headline: &#8220;White supremacists behind over 80% of extremism-related U.S. murders in 2022.&#8221; It&#8217;s all very scary, until you do what the ADL doesn&#8217;t want you to do, which is to look at the data for more than five seconds.
For one thing, in all of 2022, there were a total of just 25 extremist-related murders that the ADL identified. That&#8217;s for the entire country of 330 million people. We&#8217;re talking about 25 murders here. For comparison, far more people are struck by lightning every year in the United States. Has anyone ever said that lightning strikes are the greatest threat facing Americans? It&#8217;s absurd. Here’s maybe a better comparison to put 25 into context. The city of Chicago does 25 murders in two weeks. That’s one city, in the span of a half of a month. But 25 alleged “extremist related murders” in the entire country, in the entire year, is a crisis.
So with that context in mind, let&#8217;s look at the ADL&#8217;s language. They say that, &#8220;60% of the murders came from just two incidents—deadly shooting sprees in Buffalo, New York, and Colorado Springs, Colorado.&#8221; So for the most part we&#8217;re talking about a grand total of two incidents. And one of those mass shootings — the shooting in Colorado — was committed by a <a href="https://apnews.com/article/crime-shootings-colorado-gun-politics-denver-766baba4c80bb470eba9e6146c7b42aa" target="_blank" rel="noopener">self-described non-binary</a> individual whose lawyer demanded that the court respect his preferred pronouns. This is someone the ADL has coded as a &#8220;right-wing domestic extremist.” That’s because the ADL’s methodology has determined that, by definition, if someone commits a mass shooting, they are automatically a right-wing extremist.
That’s the way it works with this kind of data. It’s not designed to withstand any kind of scrutiny. The point is to convince Americans that there&#8217;s an epidemic of white nationalists committing mass shootings, and to demonize the political enemies of the Biden administration, in order to lay the groundwork for their imprisonment or worse. That&#8217;s why they&#8217;re lying about &#8220;right-wing extremism.&#8221; It&#8217;s why they&#8217;re going after George Alan Kelly.
It&#8217;s also why the Biden campaign just posted this graphic on social media, which explicitly <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/20/biden-trump-hitler-post-00132774" target="_blank" rel="noopener">compares</a> Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler:
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This is not a coincidence <a href="https://t.co/oaSDcb0yzs">pic.twitter.com/oaSDcb0yzs</a>
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They list a bunch of Trump quotes and try to link them with Hitler quotes as clumsily as possible. In fact, they aren’t even full quotes. They are vaguely paraphrasing Trump, and Hitler, and then expecting us to be mind-blown by how closely the two align. The funny thing is that they say Trump is like Hitler because Trump has declared that forces within our country are worse and more dangerous than enemies outside of the country. But that’s exactly the sort of thing that the Biden administration says all the time. They are constantly warning that “domestic extremists” are a greater threat than foreign terrorists. That was the point of the speech Biden just gave yesterday. The only difference is that Trump generally identifies powerful people and institutions — like the media — as his enemies. Biden, on the other hand, goes after conservative voters. His bogeyman is “MAGA Republicans,” which means the tens of millions of American citizens who support Trump.
That&#8217;s the level of political discourse we&#8217;ve achieved in this country. It&#8217;s not subtle or intelligent or clever in any way. This is a campaign to dehumanize anyone who would vote against the Biden administration, so that they can be imprisoned or worse. And it&#8217;s been going on for quite some time.
This week, The Washington Free Beacon <a href="https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/how-the-biden-administration-put-race-at-the-center-of-government-spending/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that the Biden administration has once again begun distributing federal funds on the basis of race. You might remember that, all the way back in the beginning of the Biden administration, they tried to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/23/us/politics/biden-debt-relief-black-farmers.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">allocate</a> farm aid based on the skin color of the farmers. The administration was going to make loan forgiveness payments to so-called &#8220;minority farmers,&#8221; to the tune of $4 billion. A federal judge had to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/23/us/politics/biden-debt-relief-black-farmers.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">put a stop</a> to that. But now they&#8217;re doing essentially the same thing again.
According to the Free Beacon, there are hundreds of millions of dollars <a href="https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/how-the-biden-administration-put-race-at-the-center-of-government-spending/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">allocated</a> in two pieces of federal legislation —the Inflation Reduction Act and Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. The point of legislation, Biden said, was to &#8220;create new well-paying jobs&#8221; for workers who &#8220;helped build this country.&#8221; The idea is to provide financial support to industries that are going to be phased out as the Biden administration plunges headlong into its suicidal plan to shut down the nation&#8217;s coal industry by 2035. But if you read the fine print, as the Free Beacon did, you&#8217;ll find that White House bureaucrats have been insisting that only &#8220;majority minority&#8221; areas receive federal funding under this legislation. And they&#8217;ve rigged various bureaucratic rules to make that a reality. Majority white areas — like Gillette, Wyoming — are getting shut out of these grants entirely, even though they&#8217;re mining towns that would qualify for the money in every other respect. Too bad, they have the wrong skin color up in Gillette, so no money for them.
Again, this is part of an easily observable pattern. Everywhere you look, the administration is doing what it can to demonize and humiliate Americans because of their race.
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As just one more part of that effort, Joe Biden&#8217;s National Park Service recently <a href="https://www.wsj.com/us-news/park-service-withdraws-plan-to-remove-william-penn-statue-5eae8cf5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">proposed</a> removing the William Penn statue from a park in Philadelphia. William Penn is the founder of the state of Pennsylvania, and Biden wanted his memorial gone, because he’s white. This comes just a few weeks after the Biden administration ordered a century-old memorial to postwar <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/12/22/ominously-biden-admin-will-tear-down-monument-to-reconciliation-at-arlington-cemetery/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reconciliation</a> to be torn down in Arlington National Cemetery. In the case of the Penn statue, they wanted to replace it with something honoring Native Americans. Why? Because William Penn did great things. He founded the colony that became Pennsylvania. He was imprisoned in the Tower of London, without hesitation, for his faith, multiple times. He believed in religious freedom. And of course, he was white. Those were his sins, so they tried to take him down, just like the statues of Columbus and Teddy Roosevelt.
But late yesterday, in a development we haven&#8217;t seen in many similar cases, the Biden administration suddenly <a href="https://www.wsj.com/us-news/park-service-withdraws-plan-to-remove-william-penn-statue-5eae8cf5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">backed off</a>. People noticed how deranged this plan was, and they spoke up about it. And within just a few hours, the White House caved. The Penn statue can stay for now, they conceded. All it took was some social media backlash and complaints from a few politicians, and they folded. But the important fact is that they tried to do it in the first place.
They may have backed away from their demolition plans for the William Penn statue, but they are not backing away from the underlying agenda. As we head closer to the election, you can expect to hear a lot more demonizing of white people, and many more warnings about the phantom dangers of white supremacy. Warnings that should be greeted with the same shrugs and eye rolls and confused head scratches that Biden would get if he said the greatest threat facing our country is a big evil dragon, who lives in a lair up in the mountains somewhere. He might as well be saying that.
After all, we have to worry about white supremacy in this country about as much as we have to worry about evil dragons. But this is all that the Powers That Be have. It’s what they rely on. They need you scared, and angry, and resentful, and confused. That’s the only way they win.

President Biden Delivers Remarks Emanuel AME Church In South Carolina As He Campaigns For Re-Election

The Invisible Bogeyman Of ‘White Supremacy’

The Invisible Bogeyman Of 'White Supremacy'

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&#8220;Monty Python&#8221; alumnus John Cleese took some serious backlash for an X post in which he appeared to claim that Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler was &#8220;preferable&#8221; to former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a>.
Cleese laid out the post by first listing &#8220;five ways&#8221; that Hitler was &#8220;preferable&#8221; — and came up with six. But when he attempted to follow that with the reasons Trump was &#8220;preferable,&#8221; he could apparently only think of two.
&#8220;Five ways that Hitler was preferable to Trump
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<li>He fought for his country</li>
<li>He never used a teleprompter</li>
<li>He was nice to dogs</li>
<li>He wrote his own books</li>
<li>He never played golf</li>
<li>He wasn&#8217;t a big fat slob</li>
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Five ways Trump is preferable to Hitler
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<li>He doesn&#8217;t practice genocide</li>
<li>He has nicer hair</li>
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Five ways that Hitler was preferable to Trump
1. He fought for his country 2. He never used a teleprompter 3. He was nice to dogs 4. He wrote his own books 5. He never played golf 6. He wasn&#39;t a big fat slob
Five ways Trump is preferable to Hitler
1. He doesn&#39;t practice…
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&#8220;Good lord, what in the Life of Brian is this stupidity?&#8221; Aaron Worthing asked in response. &#8220;And it’s worth noting Trump is preferable because, in addition to your points: 3. He didn’t become a dictator 4. His Supreme Court appointments strengthened freedom of expression and the right to bear arms—two important bulwarks of our democracy 5. He made historic strides in Middle East peace and kept Putin out of Ukraine. I’ll be the first to admit he has flaws but this is ridiculous.&#8221;
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Good lord, what in the Life of Brian is this stupidity?
And it’s worth noting Trump is preferable because, in addition to your points:
3. He didn’t become a dictator 4. His Supreme Court appointments strengthened freedom of expression and the right to bear arms—two important… <a href="https://t.co/utXj4eiEWW">https://t.co/utXj4eiEWW</a>
&mdash; (((Aaron Walker))) (@AaronWorthing) <a href="https://twitter.com/AaronWorthing/status/1739935563082268684?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 27, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Dumbest, most tone-deaf and deranged post of the year goes to &#8230;&#8221; Joe Concha added.
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Dumbest, most tone-deaf and deranged post of the year goes to&#8230; <a href="https://t.co/jb9sPLndf7">https://t.co/jb9sPLndf7</a>
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&#8220;You do not … under any circumstances … have to give it to Hitler,&#8221; another <a href="https://twitter.com/RobProvince/status/1739828413769142537" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a>.
Several pointed out the fact that Cleese — who actually parodied Hitler during his &#8220;Monty Python&#8221; days — might have been joking.
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If that was the case, it seems the joke fell flat:
&#8220;Is he trying to say he finds Hitler preferable? Because I really don’t think it matters about preferable qualities. Only 1 was responsible for a Holocaust,&#8221; one replied.
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Is he trying to say he finds Hitler preferable? Because I really don’t think it matters about preferable qualities. Only 1 was responsible for a Holocaust. <a href="https://t.co/Aos932QLUs">https://t.co/Aos932QLUs</a>
&mdash; leilani dowding 🌸🚜 ☮️ (@LeilaniDowding) <a href="https://twitter.com/LeilaniDowding/status/1740106774391460107?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 27, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Looking for the humor here,&#8221; another said.
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Looking for the humor here. <a href="https://t.co/OVcXrltef4">pic.twitter.com/OVcXrltef4</a>
&mdash; Oligarch Kabuki (@HouseCracka) <a href="https://twitter.com/HouseCracka/status/1739988024182907092?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 27, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Noticed you didn’t write this in German, you’re welcome,&#8221; another replied.
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Noticed you didn’t write this in German, you’re welcome
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‘Monty Python’ Alum Savaged For Saying Hitler Was ‘Preferable’ To Trump

'Monty Python' Alum Savaged For Saying Hitler Was 'Preferable' To Trump

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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) released a photograph this week of a Nazi propaganda book that denies the Holocaust found inside a school in Gaza.
The book, &#8220;The Big Lie: The burning of 6 million Jews in the gas chambers,&#8221; was located inside Al-Quds University, according to the IDF.
&#8220;Under Hamas’ rule, school curriculums promote extremist antisemitic practices—calling for genocide against the Jewish people,&#8221; the IDF said. &#8220;This is another example for Hamas’ true ideology—and another reason for us to dismantle it.&#8221;
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Under Hamas’ rule, school curriculums promote extremist antisemitic practices—calling for genocide against the Jewish people.
This is another example for Hamas’ true ideology—and another reason for us to dismantle it. <a href="https://t.co/1Bx804NApk">pic.twitter.com/1Bx804NApk</a>
&mdash; Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) <a href="https://twitter.com/IDF/status/1726936387168117244?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 21, 2023</a></blockquote>
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According to an Arabic <a href="https://archive2.libya-al-mostakbal.org/news/clicked/90769">website</a>, the book reportedly claims that Jews invented a lie claiming that Nazi Germany dictator Adolf Hitler exterminated them in concentration camps. The book claims that Jews spread disinformation to pressure governments around the world and to shape public opinion in favor of Israel when, in fact, the Nazis systematically <a href="https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/holocaust">murdered</a> 6 million Jews in concentration camps.
The discovery comes after the IDF found an Arabic copy of Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” in a children’s room at a home in Gaza.
“IDF forces discovered a copy of Hitler’s infamous book ‘Mein Kampf’ — translated into Arabic — in a child’s bedroom used as a Hamas terrorist base in Gaza,” the IDF said on X. “The book was discovered among the personal belongings of one of the terrorists, featuring annotations and highlights.”
“Hamas embraces the ideology of Hitler, the one responsible for the annihilation of the Jewish people,” the IDF added.
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Never again is NOW.
IDF forces discovered a copy of Hitler&#39;s infamous book &quot;Mein Kampf&quot;—translated into Arabic—in a child’s bedroom used as a Hamas terrorist base in Gaza. 
The book was discovered among the personal belongings of one of the terrorists, featuring annotations and… <a href="https://t.co/XMOE3jgKmm">pic.twitter.com/XMOE3jgKmm</a>
&mdash; Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) <a href="https://twitter.com/IDF/status/1723665392525021439?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 12, 2023</a></blockquote>
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During World War II, Hitler met with the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, whom Palestinians see as one of the fathers of Palestinian nationalism, on November 28, 1941, at the Reich Chancellory in Berlin.
During the meeting, al-Husseini conveyed to Hitler that he was “admired by the entire Arab world” because “of the sympathy which he had always shown for the Arab and especially the Palestinian cause,” according to an official German <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/full-official-record-what-the-mufti-said-to-hitler/">record</a> of the meeting. He told Hitler that the Arabs were natural friends with Nazi Germany because they both hated Jews.
Hitler told al-Husseini that Germany’s war against the Jews was “uncompromising” and that he actively opposed “the Jewish national home in Palestine” because he claimed it was “nothing other than a center, in the form of a state, for the exercise of destructive influence by Jewish interests,” the record said.
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Tens of thousands of Muslims also fought for Germany during WWII as Nazi Germany “made significant attempts to promote an alliance with the ‘Muslim world’ against their alleged common enemies,” according to a <a href="https://www.dw.com/en/how-nazis-courted-the-islamic-world-during-wwii/a-41358387">report</a> from German public state-owned international broadcaster Deutsche Welle.
Today, there are multiple schools in the Palestinian-controlled territories — both in Gaza and in the Judea and Samaria Area — that have been named after Nazi collaborators, according to a <a href="https://palwatch.org/storage/special%20reports/pa%20ministry%20of%20education%20schools%20named%20after%20terrorists,%20sept%202017.pdf">report</a> from Palestinian Media Watch.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah movement has also posted the covers of anti-Semitic children’s books from Nazi Germany on their social media pages.
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Fatah posts Nazi children&#39;s book: Don’t trust a fox or a Jew <a href="https://t.co/bojDJ6FTdn">https://t.co/bojDJ6FTdn</a> <a href="https://t.co/dEck63Qvht">pic.twitter.com/dEck63Qvht</a>
&mdash; Pal Media Watch (@palwatch) <a href="https://twitter.com/palwatch/status/659725085582999553?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 29, 2015</a></blockquote>
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IDF: Nazi Propaganda Book Denying The Holocaust Located Inside Gaza School

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The other day, Donald Trump made an intemperate comment in one of his speeches about his platform, Truth Social.
That’s nothing new, nor is it anything shocking.
As I’ve said before, Donald Trump’s epitaph may end up reading, “Donald Trump, 45th President of the United States: He Said A Lot Of Stuff.”
With this particular statement, Trump set the internet ablaze by saying, “We will root out the communists, Marxists, fascists, and the radical-Left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country. … The threat from outside forces is far less sinister, dangerous, and grave than the threat from within.”
Now, that isn’t exactly the best use of language. The use of language like “vermin” is ugly.
But the media weren’t content to make that point. They immediately went all the way to comparing Trump to Hitler, <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/news/watch-all-51-times-trump-was-compared-to-hitler-on-cable-news-after-vermin-speech-in-219-seconds/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">endlessly</a>.
Now, let it be said at this point that Donald Trump isn’t Hitler. Not only is he not Hitler, but he is also the most pro-Israel and pro-Jewish president in American history, bar none.
But herein lies the true insanity: Many of the same members of the media tone-policing Trump as a “Hitlerian” figure have been simultaneously pooh-poohing today’s actual Nazis, Hamas and their supporters. Figures like Mehdi Hasan and the rest of the hosts of MSNBC, who seem to have made it their life’s mission to downplay Hamas’ evil in order to establish moral equivalence with the Jewish State, are first on the bandwagon to sniff out Hitlerian references.
Except for the people who actually love Hitler, of course.
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Some of the same dynamic has been striking Elon Musk over the course of the last 24 hours.
Musk made a rather large X (Twitter) error last night. Someone on X posted the following <a href="https://twitter.com/breakingbaht/status/1724892505647296620" target="_blank" rel="noopener">message</a>: “Jewish communities have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them. I’m deeply disinterested in giving the tiniest s*** now about western Jewish populations coming to the disturbing realization that those hordes of minorities that support flooding their country don’t exactly like them too much. You want truth said to your face, there it is.”
Musk then <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1724908287471272299" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a> in reply, “You have said the actual truth.”
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You have said the actual truth
&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1724908287471272299?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 15, 2023</a></blockquote>
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So, it is true that certain Jewish organizations have bought into and promoted diversity, equity, and inclusion regimens and pushed for open borders; it is also true that some of those organizations are now realizing, post-October 7, that open immigration for those who hate Jews wasn’t a particularly wise idea.
The problem with the tweet is that it labels “Jewish communities” en masse. My community, for example, has always opposed DEI and open borders for radical Muslims. In fact, most Orthodox communities have.
Presumably, then, Musk read “Jewish communities” as “ADL.”
And indeed, that’s precisely what <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1724932619203420203" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Musk then clarified</a>: “The ADL unjustly attacks the majority of the West, despite the majority of the West supporting the Jewish people and Israel. This is because they cannot, by their own tenets, criticize the minority groups who are their primary threat. It is not right and needs to stop.”
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The ADL unjustly attacks the majority of the West, despite the majority of the West supporting the Jewish people and Israel. 
This is because they cannot, by their own tenets, criticize the minority groups who are their primary threat.
It is not right and needs to stop.
&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1724932619203420203?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 15, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Musk went on to state, “You’re right that this does not extend to all Jewish communities, but it is also not just limited to ADL.”
This is more specific and more correct.
But a huge number of people decided that now was the time to link Musk with the alt-Right and the so-called “Jewish Question,” and support the notion that Musk is a crypto-Nazi.
It is not a coincidence many of the people doing just that are happily calling for Israel to cease fire in its war with Hamas. Very often, anti-Semitism becomes a political football: When you can hang the label on Donald Trump or Elon Musk, you do; when you are forced to denounce pro-Hamas protesters shouting “From the River to the Sea, Palestine Must Be Free,” you suddenly get quite shy.
Thus, the same media that leapt on both Trump and Musk have been downplaying the open Jew-hatred at massive pro-Hamas protests across the globe, while propagating lies about Israel’s supposed human rights violations.
Instead, they’re focusing on their political enemies and deeming them acolytes of Hitler.
That might have more bite if they would simultaneously spend some time talking about the actual acolytes of Hitler on planet earth, who are right now holding some 240 Jews and others hostage in Gaza.
But those people are silent.
Take, for example, the celebrity class.
In 2014, the Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram <a href="https://www.brookings.edu/articles/beneath-the-tamarind-tree-nigeria-and-the-resilience-of-the-chibok-girls/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">kidnapped 276</a> mostly Christian female students in Nigeria. The celebrity class sprang into action. Michelle Obama. Ellen DeGeneres. Queen Latifa. They all held up signs reading #BringBackOurGirls.
By the way, it didn’t work: One hundred of the girls are still missing.
But that’s not the point. The point is that everybody sprang into action against Boko Haram, at least in principle.
Have we seen any of these same celebrities holding up #BringBackOurBabies signs for Americans being held hostage in Gaza? Not many.
But we have seen members of the media like Gayle King <a href="https://www.theroot.com/gayle-kings-receives-backlash-following-interview-with-1851028023#:~:text=In%20response%2C%20King%20said%3A%20%E2%80%9C,interested%20in%20politics%20at%20all" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lecture a grieving Jewish father</a> whose 8-year-old daughter is currently being held by Hamas: “This seems to be all about politics. What do you say about that? You have innocent children, Palestinians who are dying, innocent Israeli children who are dying, and no one seems to be able to say enough, stop that.”
There is plenty of Jew-hatred on planet earth. But anyone who is spending their days going after Donald Trump and Elon Musk for anti-Semitism while leaving Hamas untouched is pretty obviously not concerned about Jew-hatred.
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For The Media, Trump Is Hitler But Hamas Isn’t

Ben Shapiro

Elon Musk

The New York Times, a former newspaper, has hired a Hitler-loving journalist to cover the Hamas-Israel war while loving Hitler.
Now, I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking, “Oh, Klavan, you ancient yet smolderingly sensual icon of American political thought, how ever could your imagination fly so free as to create the ridiculous idea that a former newspaper as formerly respected as the New York Times — a newspaper that obsessively hates Donald Trump because he’s literally Hitler — would hire a journalist who literally sings the praises of Adolf Hitler, who’s literally Hitler — because he’s Hitler?”
And all right, maybe not all of you find me smolderingly sensual, but, ah, if only you had known me in my prime — and anyway, the point is: No! I am not making this up!
The actual real-life New York Times, which — you younger folks will have to take my word for it — actually used to be a newspaper, actually hired freelance videographer Soliman Hijjy to cover the Hamas-Israel War, even knowing that Hijjy once posted “How great you are Hitler,” on Facebook and shared a photo of himself with the caption, “I’m in a state of harmony as Hitler was during the Holocaust.&#8221;
Now just for a bit of historical context, as some of you might know, Israel is a country full of Jews, and Hitler, for all of his otherwise delightful qualities, was not always as fond of Jews as he sometimes pretended to be. However, Times Editor-in-Chief Blithering Prevarication the Third defended hiring the Hitler-loving Hijjy to cover Israel in a statement saying — and my hand to God, this is a real — “We reviewed problematic social media posts by Mr. Hijjy when they first came to light in 2022 and took a variety of actions to ensure he understood our concerns and could adhere to our standards.”
The Times did not explain what this variety of actions might have been, but we can only assume it included a priest sprinkling Mr. Hijjy with Holy Water while screaming, “The Power of Christ compels you,” until Hijjy’s head spun around 360 degrees and he projectile-vomited enormous quantities of sulfurous green slime which the Times then ran as an editorial.
The Times statement continued, “While we understand some readers might feel that hiring a man who is in Holocaust Harmony with Hitler to cover Israel — or to cover anything that exists within the framework of a moral universe — might make us New York Times senior editors appear to be hell-born subhuman crap creatures squeezed out of the flaming red tuchus of a demonic Yak-like beast so that our own mothers curse the day they gave us life and our children wander the earth like Cain seeking to escape the shame of being in any way related to the flaming subhuman crap creatures who make up the senior editorship of the New York Times, we are nonetheless committed to maintaining the highest journalistic standards possible for those who are in Harmony with Hitler and the Holocaust.”
In related news, Gallup’s annual poll on trust in the media was released this week. The poll found that a record high 39% of Americans have no trust in the media whatsoever, and another 29% have very little trust in the media. Among Democrats, however, 58% do trust the media, and also believe that men can turn into women and that if you look in the mirror and say Candyman five times, a monster will appear and give you Covid unless you’re wearing a paper mask behind which you&#8217;re helping to stop climate change by eating bugs. Seven percent of Americans trust the media completely — at least that’s what we think they said though they could only produce unintelligible grunting sounds because they were too stupid to form actual words.
On a more positive note, a full 98% of those who are in Harmony with the Holocaust and Hitler trust the New York Times’ coverage of the Israel-Hamas war, though two percent think the Times is too tough on Hamas because two percent are sub-human crap creatures who teach at Harvard University — but I repeat myself.
Andrew Klavan is the host of “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/the-andrew-klavan-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Andrew Klavan Show</a>” at The Daily Wire. He is an award-winning novelist, Hollywood screenwriter, and popular satirist. Klavan is the author of “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Strange-Habit-Mind-Cameron-Mysteries/dp/1613163517/ref=pd_bxgy_sccl_1/132-9473875-2662038?pd_rd_w=lnVGk&amp;content-id=amzn1.sym.26a5c67f-1a30-486b-bb90-b523ad38d5a0&amp;pf_rd_p=26a5c67f-1a30-486b-bb90-b523ad38d5a0&amp;pf_rd_r=13RV0285EXYKN2D57RST&amp;pd_rd_wg=jW34u&amp;pd_rd_r=e0bb3c70-62ea-4448-8be5-a7cf1bba3f5e&amp;pd_rd_i=1613163517&amp;psc=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">When Christmas Comes</a>” and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Strange-Habit-Mind-Cameron-Mysteries/dp/1613163517/ref=pd_bxgy_sccl_1/132-9473875-2662038?pd_rd_w=lnVGk&amp;content-id=amzn1.sym.26a5c67f-1a30-486b-bb90-b523ad38d5a0&amp;pf_rd_p=26a5c67f-1a30-486b-bb90-b523ad38d5a0&amp;pf_rd_r=13RV0285EXYKN2D57RST&amp;pd_rd_wg=jW34u&amp;pd_rd_r=e0bb3c70-62ea-4448-8be5-a7cf1bba3f5e&amp;pd_rd_i=1613163517&amp;psc=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">When Christmas Comes</a>” the first two novels in the USA Today best-selling Cameron Winter Mystery series. 
The third installment, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/House-Death-Cameron-Winter-Mysteries-ebook/dp/B0BW1ZTVP9?ref_=ast_author_dp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The House of Love and Death</a>,” releases on October 31, 2023, and is now available for <a href="https://www.amazon.com/House-Death-Cameron-Winter-Mysteries-ebook/dp/B0BW1ZTVP9?ref_=ast_author_dp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pre-order!</a>
Follow Klavan on Twitter: @andrewklavan
This excerpt is taken from the opening satirical monologue of “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1154-jackasses-johnson-jenna-and-the-jews" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Andrew Klavan Show.</a>”
The views expressed in this satirical article are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
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NY Times Hires Hitler-Loving Journalist To Cover Israel-Hamas War

Andrew Klavan

New York Times

Satire

Michigan State University officials apologized on Sunday after the school football stadium&#8217;s jumbotron displayed an image of Adolf Hitler during a pre-game quiz over the weekend.
&#8220;Antisemitism must be denounced,&#8221; Michigan State Athletic Director Alan Haller said in a statement <a href="https://apnews.com/article/michigan-state-hitler-23b8e62c44cf42c3caad30c908692632" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> by The Associated Press. &#8220;The image displayed prior to Saturday night&#8217;s game is not representative of who we are and the culture we embody. Nevertheless, we must own our failures and accept responsibility.&#8221;
An hour before kickoff between the Michigan State Spartans and the team&#8217;s in-state rival, the University of Michigan, an image of Hitler appeared on the stadium&#8217;s video board asking game attendants to name the birthplace of the German dictator and leader of the Nazi Party.
&#8220;The image was harmful to our communities, especially our Jewish community which is currently experiencing a rise in antisemitism, including acts of violence,&#8221; Haller&#8217;s statement said, reportedly adding he would reach out to student and local Jewish community groups.
Haller said the pre-game controversy led to the suspension of an &#8220;involved employee&#8221; while officials investigate the matter.
Michigan State spokesman Matt Larson said in a separate <a href="https://msu.edu/issues-statements/2023-10-21-msu-athletics-statement-videoboard" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> that the school would discontinue using &#8220;the third-party source moving forward.&#8221;
&#8220;MSU is aware that inappropriate content by a third-party source was displayed on the videoboard prior to the start of tonight&#8217;s football game,&#8221; Michigan State athletic director Matt Larson said in a statement. &#8220;We are deeply sorry for the content that was displayed, as this is not representative of our institutional values.&#8221;
Pictures of the image began circulating across social media, with users criticizing the university for displaying the image after the Israel-Hamas war entered its third week over the weekend, leading to a rise in antisemitism from supporters of Hamas.
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What’s up with <a href="https://twitter.com/MSU_Football?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MSU_Football</a> putting Hitler on the scoreboard during a pre game trivia game. Just wrong. <a href="https://t.co/ZKeYIirAIL">pic.twitter.com/ZKeYIirAIL</a>
&mdash; Jeff Kowalsky (@JeffKowalsky) <a href="https://twitter.com/JeffKowalsky/status/1715878470046117932?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 21, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The image reportedly came from a YouTube page called The Quiz Channel, whose description page states has created weekly quiz and trivia videos for the last three years.
Floris van Pallandt, the creator of The Quiz Channel, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/22/us/michigan-state-hitler-photo-football-game/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> CNN that the university used the channel&#8217;s content without his authorization and has since received a rise in negative feedback impacting its reputation, performance, and monetization.
&#8220;I was completely unaware of this and only learned content created by me was being used due to this occurrence,&#8221; van Pallandt wrote. &#8220;While I provide customised content packages for businesses, the utilisation of my publicly accessible YouTube content for stadium entertainment is highly questionable to say the least.&#8221;
&#8220;MSU&#8217;s subsequent statement appears to allude to a third-party source, which seems to suggest The Quiz Channel as that very source. If this is accurate, that is unacceptable to me, as it is unacceptable for The Quiz Channel to bear reputational, performance, or financial repercussions due to MSU&#8217;s unsolicited use of our content,&#8221; he wrote.
The Quiz Channel creator further defended the question about Hitler&#8217;s birthplace.
&#8220;It&#8217;s an absolutely normal trivia question, shown in an inappropriate setting,&#8221; Pallandt reportedly wrote on his YouTube page. &#8220;Ignoring the dark facets of history is by no means the answer, on the contrary.&#8221;
Michigan State reportedly streamed the YouTube channel, which included 40 questions ranging from historical figures to pop culture trivia.

Michigan State Apologizes After Hitler Image Shown On Football Stadium Jumbotron In Pre-Game Quiz

Michigan State University

The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/after-it-lied-about-israel-new-york-times-verification-badge-removed-by-x" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Times</a> rehired and defended a Palestinian videographer and journalist who twice praised Adolf Hitler and is now covering the Israel-Hamas War. 
Soliman Hijjy, who has provided on-the-ground coverage from the Gaza Strip for the Times, praised Hitler in Facebook posts from 2012 and 2018, <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/10/20/hitler-praising-soliman-hijjy-covers-israel-hamas-war-for-nyt/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to The New York Post. Media watchdog group HonestReporting found that Hijjy wrote on Facebook in 2012, &#8220;How great you are, Hitler&#8221; and in 2018, he shared a photo of himself with a caption in Arabic that said, &#8220;I&#8217;m in tune like Hitler during the holocaust,” according to a translation, Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/ny-times-defends-rehiring-gaza-journalist-praised-hitler" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. In another social media post, Hijjy said that Hamas rockets fired toward Israel were a part of “the resistance.” 
The freelance videographer’s work was first published by the Times between 2018 and 2021, and now his coverage of the Israel-Hamas war has <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/soliman-hijjy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">appeared on the site</a> nearly every day since October 12, sparking outrage from Israel&#8217;s Ambassador to the U.N. Gilad Erdan. 
“The [New York Times] has just rehired a NAZI. Let that sink in,” Erdan said. “Soliman Hijjy praises Hitler, and the NYT rehired him. We all saw how the NYT immediately parroted Hamas’ lies regarding the al-Ahli hospital (which Hijjy contributed to) and still refuses to retract these fabrications. Spreading Hamas propaganda and rehiring a Holocaust-praising terror supporter, actively stokes antisemitism.” 
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The <a href="https://twitter.com/nytimes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@nytimes</a> has just rehired a NAZI
Let that sink in.
Soliman Hijjy praises Hitler, and the NYT rehired him.
We all saw how the NYT immediately parroted Hamas’ lies regarding the al-Ahli hospital (which Hijjy contributed to) and still refuses to retract these fabrications.… <a href="https://t.co/7WaCDm2YdX">pic.twitter.com/7WaCDm2YdX</a>
&mdash; Ambassador Gilad Erdan גלעד ארדן (@giladerdan1) <a href="https://twitter.com/giladerdan1/status/1715395040887845171?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 20, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The New York Times defended its rehiring of Hijjy, claiming that the anti-Semitic videographer has “maintained high journalistic standards.” 
&#8220;We reviewed problematic social media posts by Mr. Hijjy when they first came to light in 2022 and took a variety of actions to ensure he understood our concerns and could adhere to our standards if he wished to do freelance work for us in the future,&#8221; a spokesperson for the Times told <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/ny-times-defends-rehiring-gaza-journalist-praised-hitler" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a>. &#8220;Mr. Hijjy followed those steps and has maintained high journalistic standards. He has delivered important and impartial work at great personal risk in Gaza during this conflict.&#8221;
The legacy media outlet has also faced criticism for peddling lies from Palestinian authorities about an explosion near a hospital in the Gaza Strip. The New York Times <a href="https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1714416589724864790" target="_blank" rel="noopener">changed</a> its headline multiple times after the explosion near the Gaza hospital — initially running with the Palestinian officials’ version of the event before updating the headline as more information came out that indicated the blast came from a failed terrorist rocket. The Times provided no editor’s note explaining the revised headline.
Hijjy reported on the hospital blast, which included the claim by Palestinian authorities that 500 people were killed, but that number was soon refuted by U.S. and European intelligence. American intelligence estimated that between 100-300 people were killed in the explosion caused by the Palestinian terrorists’ rocket, while a European official said 50 people were killed, The Times of Israel <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-assessment-eu-diplomat-put-gaza-hospital-death-toll-at-dozens-or-low-hundreds/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
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A U.S. intelligence document also <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/19/politics/us-intelligence-assessment-gaza-hospital-blast/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">showed</a> that there was “only light structural damage at the hospital” as the rocket landed in a nearby parking lot.

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Journalist Who Praised Hitler Covering Israel-Hamas War For New York Times; Newspaper Defends Him

Everybody knows what fascism means, right? After all, our politicians and media members use the word constantly. Everybody you don&#8217;t like is a fascist. Everybody you do like is fighting fascism. But what exactly is fascism?
The one thing everybody seems to know is that fascism is like Hitler and this means the chief characteristic of fascism is the Holocaust. Therefore, by the transitive property: Everyone you don&#8217;t like is fascist; every fascist is Hitler; the most Hitler thing is the Holocaust. So, Donald Trump or Ron DeSantis or whomever the media say that day is probably going to commit a holocaust.
Invariably, the people in the media who use the word fascism use it to refer to a politician of the Right. But it turns out that fascism is Right-wing only when compared with outright communism. Fascism in Europe was a reactionary force. By American standards, fascism — which calls for unity of central authority and governmental control over private industry, among other agenda items — was far more Left-wing than Right-wing, which is why so many members of the American Left were originally quite warm toward Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler.
To understand this, let&#8217;s look briefly at the history of fascism. Fascism is a very messy concept in that it crosses streams with a wide variety of other ideologies ranging from Marxism to religious integralism. So what are the common features of fascism? 
First, fascism is characterized by a belief in the moral imperative of the centralized state. We can sense the roots of fascism going all the way back to Plato who called for a Philosopher King in a utopian state, although there are those who read Plato as esoteric in this call. We can sense fascist themes in Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 &#8211; 1778), who called for the dictatorship of the general will, a sort of miasmatic power emanating from the people but vested in a centralized authority, in which all people would feel themselves members. This is why Robespierre, the author of &#8220;The Reign of Terror,” cited Rousseau as divine. Georg Friedrich Hegel, (1770 &#8211; 1831), saw the power of the state as the apotheosis of mankind: 
<blockquote>“The state consists in the march of God in the world.”</blockquote>
This means that fascism sees both economic and individual freedoms as antithetical to the good when they challenge the power of the state.
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Second, fascism is characterized by a belief in nationalism or in its most virulent form racial hierarchy. We can see the roots of fascism in ancient Sparta, a militaristic dictatorship rooted in racial purity. With the death of biblical adherence to the notion of a universal humanity during the enlightenment, racial division became a deep part of Western thought.
Immanuel Kant (1724 &#8211; 1804) spoke about a hierarchy of races in his earlier work. He attempted to walk some of that back later in life. This sort of thought was exacerbated by Charles Darwin&#8217;s theory, which was misread to embrace scientific racism. Such scientific racism became a dominant philosophy throughout much of the progressive world, which is why both Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson were advocates of eugenics.
Third, fascism is militaristic. It sees organization around military lines as a model for human existence and recommends action in the world as a response to existential nihilism.
There&#8217;s a reason Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 &#8211; 1900) was beloved to fascists. He spoke of the &#8220;Ubermensch&#8221; who would be able to conquer through power of sheer will. Fascism suggests a sort of mystical spirit residing in the nation that must be fed through expansionism and militarization of life.
Historically, the most important fascist was actually not Hitler but Benito Mussolini. Mussolini was the first politician to truly channel the roiling forces of fascism into one movement. The word fascism comes from the word “fasces,” a bundle of rods grouped together to form a roman weapon. Fascism comes from Italy.
Mussolini was originally attracted to the work of Marx, which was not anti-fascist in any real way. Many of the predicates of fascism also worked quite well for Lenin and Stalin. But Mussolini eventually came to realize rejecting Marx could serve his own ends.
In the aftermath of World War I, Mussolini gained power by marching on Rome, with the acquiescence of the king, in order to supposedly save the state from Bolshevism. Mussolini&#8217;s philosophy was somewhat vague but it carried all the central tenets of fascism. In 1927, Mussolini laid out the “Doctrine” of Fascism.” He wrote:
<blockquote>“Anti-individualistic, the Fascist conception of life stresses the importance of the State and accepts the individual only in so far as his interests coincide with those of the State…”</blockquote>
Mussolini wrote that fascism was a “spiritual attitude.” That spiritual attitude required outward expansion:
<blockquote>“The state is not only authority which governs and confers a legal form and spiritual value on individual wills, it is also Power which makes its will felt and respected beyond its own frontiers thus affording practical proof of the universal character of the decisions necessary to ensure its development. This implies organization and expansion potential if not actual.”</blockquote>
That expansion meant not just militarization, but gargantuan public works, massive expansion of the welfare state, corporatization of the private sector with the government leaving private industry intact, but essentially working hand-in-glove with it to control it and channel its resources in the direction sought by the fascists.
Private companies remaining in private hands, that&#8217;s the reason that we&#8217;re able to create innovative products right here in America that are recognized and used the world over. We know how incompetent the government is, imagine them actually controlling all private business. Things would look pretty bleak.
Glorification of the State and the great leader lay at the root of the Mussolini regime. Mussolini quickly gained worldwide credence and approval. Fascism spread throughout Europe. Hitler greatly admired Mussolini, of course, and Hitler&#8217;s original Beer Hall Putsch was supposed to mimic the success of Mussolini&#8217;s march on Rome.
Hitlerian fascism was significantly more totalitarian than Mussolini&#8217;s brand. The cult of the great leader reached its fruition in the Führer. Philosopher Martin Heidegger embodied the feelings of millions in 1933:
<blockquote>“The Führer himself and he alone is the German reality, present and future, and its law. Heil Hitler!” </blockquote>
Nazism, of course, took on racial eugenics in a far more significant way culminating in the Holocaust. And Nazism&#8217;s militarism ended in the catastrophe of World War II. Hitler was not the only fascist to follow Mussolini&#8217;s lead.
Fascist regimes took over in a variety of countries ranging from Hungary and Romania to Paraguay and eventually Iraq. Other states, ranging from Spain to Argentina, mimic many aspects of fascism, leading many to label them quasi-fascist.
Certain aspects of fascism, particularly in the economic realm could even be seen under FDR in the United States. FDR&#8217;s New Deal, complete with government resources directed at forcing economic conformity, controlled huge swaths of American life, with FDR aide Harry Hopkins openly suggesting,
<blockquote>“We are not afraid of exploring anything within the law and we have a lawyer who will declare anything you want to do to be legal.”</blockquote>
And this is why the term fascism is so attractive in political discourse. Everybody thinks of Brownshirts and small mustaches when they invoke fascism, but there are a lot of aspects of fascism that survive in a variety of forms.
Corporatism — government working hand-in-glove with industry — is a form of economic fascism. Racial hierarchies can be indicative of fascist thinking, particularly when combined with differential treatment under law. Militarism can be termed fascist, particularly when its resources are directed at domestic populations.
Few people will admit to being fascist today. It would be far more useful for everybody to simply critique policies with reference to history but without reference to the buzzword that poisons everyday discourse. We can have good and interesting conversations about the value of corporatism, for example, without invoking Hitler, we can talk about opposing the shortcomings of atomic individualism without invoking the Holocaust.
The truth is that nowadays the term fascism tends to be a slur rather than a predicate to a useful conversation. As it turns out, everybody you don&#8217;t like probably isn&#8217;t Hitler.
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FACTS EP 3 FASCISM

Not Everyone You HATE Is A Fascist

Benito Mussolini

Fascism

Italy

A journalist whose family was targeted by Nazi Germany was fired from his position as an editorial board member for The Seattle Times after he was accused of “defending” Adolf Hitler on Twitter.
David Josef Volodzko began his career as a university lecturer but decided to switch to journalism to report on injustices throughout the world. He has spent the past 15 years covering stories about refugees, prisoners of war, and war itself. In <a href="https://www.thefp.com/p/seattle-times-writer-fired-over-hitler-lenin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an essay</a> about his firing posted to Bari Weiss’ Substack “The Free Press,” Volodzko describes himself as a democratic socialist and notes that his wife is a DEI trainer.
None of that prepared him for the current cancel culture movement.
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Volodzko thought that he, his wife, and his baby daughter would fit in perfectly in ultra-progressive Seattle.
His first official column for the Times was about Seattle’s statue of Russian communist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin. Volodzko wrote about how the people of the Fremont neighborhood in which it stands dress it up and make it a joke, but also about his own family’s struggles and Lenin’s genocidal killings.
He received positive and negative responses, as any columnist would. The column was never the issue, but the words Volodzko used to post it on Twitter cost him his job.
“In fact, while Hitler has become the great symbol of evil in history books, he too was less evil than Lenin because Hitler only targeted people he personally believed were harmful to society whereas Lenin targeted even those he himself didn’t believe were harmful in any way,” Volodzko wrote in a now-deleted tweet.
He followed up this post by explaining that he was only comparing the two by their intentions, not their actual atrocities.
“Hitler was more evil than Lenin if we’re looking at what they did to people and that’s a pretty important metric for assessing evil!” he wrote.
As Volodzko noted in his essay, this is the kind of topic one could debate in person, but not on Twitter. “And the argument I was making is a fraught one even under the best of circumstances—you don’t need to compare anyone to Hitler to argue that they are evil — and my delivery was poor, to say the least,” he wrote.
He was accused of “defending” Hitler and had his life threatened.
Six days later, Volodzko thought his job was safe after he was told the media outlet stood by him. But he was soon fired for “poor judgment” and “continuing to engage online.” After he was terminated, the paper issued an apology statement that appeared to contradict that reasoning.
“An editorial writer engaged in Twitter recently in a way that is inconsistent with our company values,” the paper wrote. “We apologize for any pain we have caused our readers, our employees and the community.”
Volodzko is now trying to earn income through his Substack, “<a href="https://volodzko.substack.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Radicalist</a>,” in which he covers political extremism from communism to fascism and the cancel culture environment of which he is a recent victim.
On Saturday, Elon Musk announced that his company – which he has renamed X – would fight for anyone punished by an employer for their actions on his platform.
“If you were unfairly treated by your employer due to posting or liking something on this platform, we will fund your legal bill,” Musk <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-vows-to-go-to-war-against-companies-that-punish-employees-for-activity-on-x" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a>. “No limit. Please let us know.”
Volodzko responded to the tweet with his Substack essay, and Musk eventually responded by saying: “This does sound like a good case.”
It is unclear whether anything will come of Musk’s response, and any action would not be immediate for Volodzko and his family, but it does provide some hope.

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Seattle Times Editorial Board Member Fired After Comparing Lenin And Hitler On Twitter

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