Posted on 10/04/2022 7:34:11 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
When a student complained that a San Diego middle school classroom had Adolf Hitler’s picture placed on a wall next to positive historical leaders, the teacher allegedly responded that “Hitler may have done some bad things, but he also had strong leadership qualities.”
According to the StopAntisemitism advocacy organization, the teacher’s reply was in reference to the student’s request to have Hitler’s photo removed from the class wall of inspirational leaders.
“‘Hitler may have done some bad things, but he also had strong leadership qualities’ - Tabitha Barry, 7th grade teacher at Carmel Valley Middle School in San Diego. Barry's response was in reference to a student's request to remove Hitler's photo from a display of positive leaders,” StopAntisemitism tweeted.
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The point it not what they said but how they said it.
I would love nothing better than to have as effective a speaker, except communicating a Constitutionally grounded and patriotic message, here in the US.
(Without the screaming and hobnail boots)
Most of Europe in the 1930s was authoritarian. Even Austria was “Fascist” when the Anschluss occurred.
” gave us the VW bug”? The people’s wagon. All they could afford. Not exactly a Cadillac. Rather a model German version o the Model T Ford.
A country that legalized abortion in 1973 can’t point the finger at anyone.
Donald Trump is a remarkably effective “pep-rally” communicator. Without the screaming and hobnail boots.
The style doesn’t appeal to me. It does appeal to large numbers of other people, though.
I always thought, if you wanted to really understand Hitler’s oratory skills, listen to the speeches of Oswald Mosley in the 1930s.
One of the most brilliant orators I’ve ever heard, and really a tragic figure, in that like so many, he saw the allure of Fascism before he realized the tragic results of it, and unfortunately his movement attracted a lot of anti-semites, most notably William Joyce, who became better known as “Lord Haw Haw”.
I suppose it depends on what “positive” means, but given the fact that he took power at the beginning of a post-depression economic recovery (and took undeserved credit for it) and left his country a shattered ruin, starving and parceled out among its enemies twelve years later, I’m going to have to call that one tilting a teeny bit into the overall negative. Interesting guy, though - a genius at accreting power and a disaster at employing it, like many prominent despots including a few third-raters currently stinking up Washington DC.
I don’t find trump an inspiring speaker, he’s more of an entertainer. Reagan was better at inspiring and moving crowds.
Not really.
He could make a good speech but that was pretty much it. When you read about his life and the people around him you start to see he really did not have leadership qualities.
I guess Ed school grads really are the stupidest. Whatever people say online, you don’t tell kids Hitler was great. This would not have happened back when everybody’s dad had been in the war.
There’s a lot of truth in that. He slept till 11, lunched from 1 to 3, and spent all evening holding forth for his dinner guests until after midnight. The guy was a bohemian and liked to work about as much.
His speech making was his only asset but it was enough that those those around him free to “follow the Fuhrer” and implement his devastating policies.
Reminds me of “Some people did something” (Tlaib)
I mean really, declaring war on the USA? That had to be the biggest unforced error in the entire war.
The US was poised to not declare war on Germany. The focus of our anger was Japan. Supplies to the UK would stop because we would need them to fight Japan. The UK would have fallen, not easily but it would have gone down.
Whether we would have beaten Japan by ourselves with out using the British Empire for bases and their intelligence network is a good question. Probably. But it would have been harder.
So he gets exactly what he wants by staying out of it.
But what does he do? Declared he will support his good ally Japan by going to war with the US as well.
W.
T.
H.
Japan was competition. They firmly believed they were the superior humans on the planet. They had been at the conquest and colonization game for almost 70 years at that point and they were good at it.
A weakened Japan with an ascendant Germany was the ideal outcome. And it was quite possible to just sit this one out. Japan never declared war on the USSR and the USSR did not declare war on them until the last moment when they thought they could make a grab for the goodies.
At worse he could have had a couple of years to unite Europe and then come to Japan's rescue if it looked like they were going down.
Or just let them fall and let a tired and beat up US decide Europe and Africa were not worth it.
It shoulda been clear he was nuts right around the time he grabbed Czechoslovakia.
If he had stopped with the Anschluß Österreichs he’d have as many libraries and streets named after him in Germany as MLK does here.
The lesson here is when a leader who does a few things you like
promises to do other things you don’t like as much best take them at their word.
Aside from his being a racist murdering jerk he was not that bright.
But neither were the people following him.
But basically Hitler wanted all the lands of the former Austria-Hungary under German control, or at least in their sphere of influence, the idea of Czechoslovakia being allied with Britain and France meant basically they would have Germany surrounded.
Hitler’s thinking basically was this:
Britain has their colonies, I should have mine, I don’t make any claims on Britain’s colonies, they can have them, in fact, if they have any problems in their colonies, I can help them.
Heck, Britain doesn’t like the Bolsheviks neither. I can take care of that problem too for them.
Surely Britain can’t turn down such a great deal, right? I mean we’re all Anglo-Saxons.
And believe me, there were a lot of folks in Britain that would have gone for it, including a certain King.
And when Britain didn’t go for it, he basically blamed it all on “International Jewish Finance”. And that’s when you got Krystallnacht and eventually “The Final Solution”.
That was his thinking. Few people realize today how militarily weak Germany was up until the time it was completely mobilized in 42.
Referring to those 3, Peter Drucker explained why he focused on management and not leadership.
Did they also take down the Che and Castro portraits?
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