Posted on 09/03/2024 4:22:24 PM PDT by Miami Rebel
Darryl Cooper, the historian deemed by Tucker Carlson to be the “best and most honest” in the U.S., appears to have a strange fondness for Adolf Hitler.
Cooper recently joined Carlson on an episode of The Tucker Carlson Show. During their conversation, Cooper claimed that Winston Churchill was the “chief villain” of World War II because he “was primarily responsible for that war becoming what it did.” He also claimed that the Holocaust was some kind of unintended consequence of Germany being “completely unprepared to deal with the millions and millions of prisoners of war.” According to Cooper, millions “ended up dead” because there was no food to feed them and German soldiers decided it was “more humane to just finish them off quickly.”
Based on his social media activity, that whitewashing of the atrocities of the Holocaust isn’t out of the ordinary for Cooper. In a now-deleted tweet from late July, he appeared to claim that scenes of Nazi-occupied France — specifically, a photo of Hitler before the Eiffel Tower — were “preferable” when compared to the scenes of the Olympic opening ceremony in Paris.
“This may be putting it too crudely for some,” he said, “but the picture on the left was infinitely preferable in virtually every way than the one on the right.”
[Hitler in Paris was on the left, the Olympics' opening tableau on the right.]
The month before, he posted a bizarre tweet suggesting that the shooter who tried to assassinate Donald Trump went to Hell and Hitler did not.
"Yes, Tucker's favorite historian is pretty open about being a Hitler guy, and he believes the Allies were on the wrong side of WWII.
"Not sure how this is America first. I don't speak Nazi. pic.twitter.com/bQ4fxpiym4
"— Jordan Schachtel @ dossier.today (@JordanSchachtel) September 3, 2024"
[Cooper's tweet: "If you're having a bad day, just remember that Trump's shooter is wandering around Hell looking for Hitler while the two guys dropped by Kyle Rittenhouse figure out how to break the news to him."]
In another tweet from June 2023, Cooper responded to someone arguing Hitler and Italian dictator Benito Mussolini were prime examples that “centralization of power is never a good idea.” Cooper replied with several screenshots of Wikipedia entries of civil wars across the world, claiming “a thousand years of tyranny is preferable to a single day of anarchy.”
"Here are but a few examples where centralized power would’ve been very welcome. As the Arab proverb goes, a thousand years of tyranny is preferable to a single day of anarchy. https://t.co/3LnMNphysn pic.twitter.com/RKLhaJzRQV
"— Martyr Made (@martyrmade) June 18, 2023"
It’s always been that way here and as an ungroveling southerner I’m well aware who many are
Hitler baiters and Confederates were Nazis crowd overlap here and often with nevertrumpism
Moral self righteousness specially over low hanging fruit like Hitler is for either the weak or vapid fakirs who come here to entertain themselves giving it to those Nazi loving righties
It’s like wokeness
Performative morality that requires no assumption of character improvement on the party of Donald Sutherland Body Snatchers finger pointing
“Oh you like Tucker you must also like Hitler “
The only group I kind of give a pass here for this even if reluctantly are our Jews
And some are here
Id be knee jerk about Hitler too probably
Not sure Churchill whom I adore is their hero either though him diverting from camp bombing
Whatever
It’s not nearly as bad now here as 25 years ago when they were big here and held the power
Western white male christian civilization is at stake
I’m more concerned about that than phantom Hitler smear
And I think Trump is our only hope for now
The NeverTrumper who has been suspended several times for his obsessive NeverTrumping is now projecting his infantile behavior onto me.
So, you are a Zeeper?
You never say your loyalty lies with the United States, not Putin.
But you can throw weak insults as if it would somehow make a difference.
Obfuscate and divert.
He is an obsessive troll.
It’s his profession.
Dear Sir,
I think Mr. Fiji Hill‘s words were really dripping sarcasm.🙁
Or am I wrong?
But I never believed that such views could be uttered in all seriousness 😱 I am truly stultified, if this really is the case.
And Pol Pot, I‘d say, deserves „dishonorable mention“.
Very sorry, I wanted to say „horrified“.
My spellckecker has been acting up again. I apologize for any misunderstanding 🙁
“no one ever talks about the Holomodor. Why is that?”
Except dozens of historians. I’ve read “Harvest of Sorrow”, “Red Famine” & “Court of the Red Tsar”. Any informed person should know
“The RAF began bombing German cities on the 16th of April 1939”
Before WW2 started? I don’t think so. The Germans bombed Rotterdam, killing some 800 well before the Brits attempted to bomb Germany
You have twisted and subverted your own reality so that now you live in a fantasy.
So Sad
England stood up Bomber Command. They had 33 squadrons at September 1939. England began bombing German targets. Why, to start a war on the continent??
Germany, early on, created a situation generating millions of refugees. Germany had no plan to shelter and feed milions of refeugees. Winter was fast approaching-what to do??
These are the facts raised by the Historian.
If these are inconvient facts for your fantasy worldview, so be it
It’s interesting that the NeverTrumpers of a feather on this thread are flocking together...
Did Carlson say this Cooper guy is his favorite historian?
Does Carlson defend Cooper seemingly odd take on history?
The Germans bombed Rotterdam,
And that was after the Dutch had surrendered.
And Bin Laden built hospitals!
Tucker Carlson has done a couple of questionable interviews lately. I find the one where Tucker decides to ask a Palestinian Christian cleric how the Israelis treat Christians disturbing. Why didn’t he interview a Christian cleric or Christian living in Israel how they get treated?
Of course the Palestinian Christian had a negative slant. In fact the Christians in Israel are treated no differently than anyone else. The Arabs in Israel are treated well.
Tucker had newly minted anti Semite Candace Owens on to commiserate over her fight with Ben Shapiro. I did not see Tucker giving her any type of pushback over her unhinged theories.
The Brits actually did bomb the concentration camps. We didn’t.
Considering the inaccuracy of WWII dumb bombs it must have been hard to avoid hitting the prisoners.
Indeed. Hitler's accomplishments as to urban redevelopment (think Warsaw, London, Birmingham, Rotterdam) and population management (the world's population was reduced by about 50 million between 1939 and 1945) should make him a liberal hero.
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