[Louis Foxwell]

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[Louis Foxwell]

A little perspective on the new nonmorality. It will remain with us until we finally eradicate the left.

[jimjohn]

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[cripplecreek]

The Jews are irrelevant except as a means for the left to rid itself of all rules and morals on the path to total revolutionary commitment.

Nothing is more disgusting than listening to the left's endless lecture on right and wrong when they have so willingly and utterly rejected all morality and ethics. They know the democrats are blatantly lying to us and them alike but they don't care.

[Billthedrill]

Grass, like so much of the German left, saw Nazis everywhere but in the mirror.

There is a tendency on the left to treat this as a definitional matter: we're not the Nazis and so we must be everything the Nazis weren't. That position fails in the face of fact, and so fact must be restated until it no longer has the power of denial.

Grass was, more or less of his own volition, a member of the Waffen SS. That, in the face of fact, had to be restated until the sting was gone, and that is precisely what the work that made him famous accomplished. He was Oskar in The Tin Drum, a little fellow who refused to grow, possessed of superhuman powers and divorced entirely by circumstance of any guilt over the progress of the war. Hence Grass himself.

There was, of course, the comfort - the Europeans reached it long before it washed ashore the United States like a putrid, greasy oil slick - the moral refuge of judgmental Leftism, of the notion that its adherents were above it all, that they could sit serene on their cloudy throne and pass judgment on mere mortals below. It is one of the more cloying characteristics of the Left and is magnified in number. After a certain critical mass, it is nearly unassailable.

But not forever, for sooner or later they all are found out: the SA did consist both of fascist and communist street fighters, after all, and the only consistency was in the identity of their target, the Jews. With Grass's passing goes a generation that found Jew-hatred a comfortable refuge for its own inadequacies, secure in the knowledge that the generation to follow was already infected with that same disease.

[cynwoody]

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