Posted on 09/24/2007 1:03:05 AM PDT by Anita1
Seventy years before this week’s invitation to Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Columbia rolled out the red carpet for a senior official of Adolf Hitler’s regime. The invitation to Iran’s leader may seem less surprising, but no less disturbing, when one recalls that in 1933, Columbia president Nicholas Murray Butler invited Nazi Germany’s ambassador to the United States, Hans Luther, to speak on campus, and also hosted a reception for him. Luther represented “the government of a friendly people,” Butler insisted. He was “entitled to be received . . . with the greatest courtesy and respect.”
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Columbia U needs a “regime change”. It should be done at the same time we change Iran’s regime.
Liberals never change their positions - even over a long period of time!You realize that the guy who was so chummy with the Nazis was a republican presidential candidate right?
He was a Republican like David Duke was a Republican.That implies his views were outside of the mainstream. Comparing political views of the 30's versus views today is incredibly dishonest. Anti-semitism and racism were rife in the 30's. Our little anti-semitic friend was hardly radical for his time.
So did Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. and Charles Lindbergh.
What is inconceivable to me is that an audience is going to applaud this sub-human knowing he is, directly and indirectly, responsible for flag draped coffins returning home.
Columbia university and this audience will be washing off the blood dripping from his hands and applauding his deeds of death against our country, our grieving mothers and fathers and the brave protectors who paid the ultimate price for freedom.
“As Prof. Stephen Norwood of the University of Oklahoma has found in his research on the academic community’s response to Hitler in the 1930s, Columbia was not the only prominent U.S. university to behave shamefully with regard to the Nazis. Harvard hosted a visit by Hitler’s foreign press spokesman, Ernst “Putzi” Hanfstaengl. American University chancellor Joseph Gray visited and praised Nazi Germany. MIT Dean Harold Lobdell personally tore down posters for a rally against a Nazi warship docked in Boston’s harbor, and MIT participated in a 1937 celebration at the Nazi-controlled University of Goettingen. Yale, Princeton, Bryn Mawr, and others continued student exchanges with Nazi Germany into the late 1930s, and more than twenty U.S. colleges and universities took part in the 1936 Heidelberg event.”
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A student from Columbia by the name of Birdie interviewed on TV and was wondering how she could disagree with the Iranian President until she heard what he had to say.
I thought do some research you twit and find out what he has said and what he has done, even then, she would probably still be sympathetic with him.
[..do some research..]
I agree but I think she isn’t very ‘enlightened’ on current events because his statements of hatred are not exactly secret, her research would, more than likely, be limited to her favorite tenured professor.
The Nazis had many Americans fooled in the 1930’s. People on this side of the Atlantic only saw what appeared to be a dramatic economic recovery in Germany from the Weimar Republic. Hitler and his cronies were widely praised for this. Few Americans realized that the “recovery” was just a show and that the Nazis systematically looted the country in order to build a military machine. Furthermore, in an era when the primary news media consisted of short movie reels and the local paper, few here understood what Hitler was really about.
Your stating that does not make it so. You are unwittingly engaging in what one might call a 1930's version of 'moral equivalence', in that you are making no differentiation between the anti-semitism/racism found in Nazi Germany, and the bias which existed in our own American society, which were far from the virulence that resulted in places like Auschwitz, etc. In that case, he should have fared better in GOP politics. He didn't. Case closed.Ooookay.... so you're arguing that the democratic and republican parties are responsible for their platforms throughout history? That will be an interesting story to hear.
In that era, most Ivy League universities had quotas that limited the number of Jewish students, to the benefit of academically less qualified, but socially better connected members of Northeastern families of British ancestry and Protestant background. In our own time, the same schools have affirmative action programs that favor academically less qualified, but politically more favored blacks and Hispanics over whites and Asians. Racial and ethnic bias is an old tradition in the Ivy League; only the beneficiaries and victims change.
In that era, most Ivy League universities had quotas that limited the number of Jewish students, to the benefit of academically less qualified, but socially better connected members of Northeastern families of British ancestry and Protestant background. In our own time, the same schools have affirmative action programs that favor academically less qualified, but politically more favored blacks and Hispanics over whites and Asians. Racial and ethnic bias is an old tradition in the Ivy League; only the beneficiaries and victims change.Yup. Here's a little tidbit on the SAT(in case you haven't heard it ;) Did you know that the SAT was originally conceived us as a means to decrease Jewish enrollment in the Ivies? Basically the thinking back in the day was that Jewish people weren't actually smart, they just studied a lot. So they tried to come up with a test that tested "intelligence" to keep the Jewish people out. And guess who came up with a way of studying for the SAT? A smart(and now very rich) Jewish man named Stanley Kaplan.
‘So did Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. and Charles Lindbergh.’
Yep. FDR eventually had to remove Joe Kennedy because of it.
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I believe that Eleanor Rooseveldt, Henry Ford also joined with Charles Lindberg and Joseph Kennedy in meeting and having dinner with Hitler before WW-2. They were then and now considered “Isolationists”; I considered them Traitors, then and today. Just like their progeny the Democrat party.
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