[conspire] Federales in Portland?

[Ruben Safir]

On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 09:46:29AM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Ruben Safir (ruben at mrbrklyn.com):
> > On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 03:22:48PM +0200, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote:
> 
> > > Saying that putting down statues is "cancel
> > > culture" is pretty naïve if not hypocritical.
> > 
> > It is not hypocritical.  It is spot on.
> 
> Once again, crazy talk.  Nobody in Germany forgets about the NSDAP and
> the Enabling Act, just because there aren't heroically posed bronze
> statues of Joseph Goebbels and Reinhard Heydrich lining the Unten den
> Linden, in Berlin.
> 
> Germany (and West Germany, before it) has in fact been an admirable
> model of keeping historical memory alive and vivid[1], although nothing
> like such admiring statues would be tolerated.  To my surprise, I find
> upon checking that the distinctive German Criminal Code
> ('Strafgesetzbuch') section 86a, adopted early in the Cold War, that
> makes Nazi symbols unlawful, has nothing against statues of 20th C. war
> criminals.  They are merely Not Done, Because, Really, Now.
> 

We are not punsiing the world because of the misdeads of the Nazi's, nor
are we in Germany.

We won the war, which made us the good guys.

Goebbles and Robert E Lee, Goerge Washington, Thomas Jefferson,  is all 
the same in the world of the Cancel Culures.

> 
> >   [blah, blah, blah]
>

tinitius?
> 
> > Colobus was the discover of the New World for the West.
> 
> I believe you misspelled 'Leif Erikson'.  ;->
> 

I forget nothing in this regard.  My great great great great
grandfather, Shlomo HaNezbock, discovered America as well, and nobody
believed him because he was a rotten, stinking yid from the Pale.  He
gets no credit either.

> 
> [1] Austria, by contrast, was long impaired in this task by a national
> memory deficit syndrome, colloquially referred to as 'Kurt Waldheim
> Disease'.
>

Oswald Mosely?

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