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To: rktman

“No different than the Crusaders who marched across Europe massacring for two centuries in the name of their beliefs,”

Here the writer jumped the shark.

The Crusaders were NOT marching through Europe.

They were marching to the Near East.

And the Crusades happened against the backdrop of centuries of unprovoked Muslim aggression that was ongoing.

The Crusades were as a response to Islam entirely justified.

After the Crusades the Muslim heathens renewed their aggression, and indeed they never stopped elsewhere.

The battles waged by the Crusaders were few, those launched by Islam were many, in the hundreds, and they continue till this very day.

Maybe the writer was careless and meant to speak of the Inquisition, but his words that he actually wrote were simply wrong.

Just as, while we’re at it, his notion that Leftists are non-conformists ... they are the ultimate conformists, they are so self-proclaimed unique that you can hardly tell them apart. Their “non-conformity” is a self-serving myth, all they do is ape those who may have once been non-conformists, if even that. Fear of being different in any matter of ideology is rampant.

Likewise, to further criticize the writer’s missteps, there was little of traditional middle classed values in Nazism that wasn’t twisted into a mockery of those values. Nazism held more in common with the French Terrors and it took all their neopagan anti-Christian racist bullshit to make them as bad as Marxists can and have got without the help. And they weren’t fascist (which is bad enough), they were socialist (which is worse). The Italians were fascist, the Spanish were fascist, and they were NOT Nazis.


9 posted on 12/19/2018 11:55:19 AM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Rurudyne

A bit of a correction, but the Spaniards were NOT Fascists, nor were they Socialists. Actually, if anything the Spanish Republicans came far closer to actually BEING Socialist/Fascist than Francisco Franco did (and besides, socialism and fascism are actually joined at the hip, as even Benito Mussolini stated).

Other than that bit, you are entirely correct in your post.


14 posted on 01/10/2019 5:39:49 AM PST by otness_e
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