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September 05, 2003
Moral Equivalency
Jonah Goldberg makes an excellent point about the "Bush=Hitler" crowd in today's WaPo:
The Nazis murdered millions of men, women and children. Their victims weren't "collateral damage" in a war, and they were not executed after a long and fair trial. The Nazis sent their victims to gas chambers and ovens in boxcars. Nazi scientists injected dyes into the living eyes of small children to see if they could be made "Aryan." They made soap out of people.
What on earth has George Bush done that deserves such comparisons? What could he possibly do?
If you're going to call the man a Nazi, show me the children with tattoos on their arms. Show me the stockpiles of emaciated corpses. Show me files cabinets full of memos detailing how Bush and Cheney plan on disposing of millions of dead American citizens killed with poisonous gas.
If you can't show me any of these things - and you can't - then stop calling the man a Nazi. Because when you say he's no different from Hitler, you are also saying that Hitler is no different from George Bush. And that means that Hitler's crimes were no worse than George Bush's "crimes." And whatever you think of what George Bush has done or might do, if you think any of it is the moral equivalent of the Holocaust, you are in effect saying the Holocaust really wasn't that bad.
And that is moral equivalency, and anti-Semetism, at its very worst.
Posted by Rita at September 5, 2003 05:10 AM
Comments
Words no longer have an independant meaning....they mean what I say they mean. (Sarcasm) The true problem is that the meaning of "nazi" has been mis-interperted and mis-used. Nazi's were and are liberals.....Socialists. Don't believe me?
Look it up.....
Posted by: Bill at September 5, 2003 10:10 AM