Israel/Hamas War Superthread

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(05-02-2024, 11:52 AM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Israel must fall, and free all prisoners.  And yes, they clearly mean all the terrorists too.  Notice the sign behind the kid chanting that?  Who is the guy they're advocating for release?  Ahmad Saadat is a convicted terrorist who masterminded the assassination of an Israeli minister.

Sorry Dino, you're on the side of the baddies.

http://thebengalsboard.com/newreply.php?tid=24583&replyto=893985   #20

(08-25-2020, 10:27 AM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: I'll reiterate, comparing your political opponents to Nazis is unacceptable.  The only exception would be if they were actual Nazis.  I suppose we can file this under "it's ok if the people I like do it" file for you.  It's certainly not the first entry.

http://thebengalsboard.com/Thread-Republican-National-Convention-s?page=5&highlight=hitler  #97

(08-26-2020, 01:24 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: It's a simple concept, comparing your political opponents to the Nazis or anything related to the Nazis is a charged, and over the top, allegation.  It is done to be intentionally inflammatory and no amount of pontificating on your part will change this.  This is, of course, my opinion.

http://thebengalsboard.com/Thread-Why-does-he-refuse-to-condemn-them?page=17&highlight=hitler  #337

(10-08-2020, 08:01 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: I largely give serious responses, just not when the question isn't serious.  In your case I am happy to reply as requested in the hopes that you follow suit.  First off, my disdain for Nazi and Hitler comparisons is well known.  They are so loaded that they automatically terminate any serious dialogue.  By choosing to make a direct comparison to Hitler you are indulging in this behavior.  Of course no one with any knowledge of Hitler, with the benefit of nearly 100 years of hindsight and analysis, would read anything into his comments on this topic as anything other than what it was.  Even back then Hitler made his intentions largely known.  Contrast that with Trump.  Is Trump definitively stating that Scandinavian Caucasians have superior genes?  Is Trump even definitively saying that white Minnesotans have superior genes?  If so superior to what?  

He's addressing a crowd.  He stated people in Minnesota have good genes.  He did not exclude any groups living in Minnesota from that statement.  He did not precede his statement with a chapters long diatribe about the superiority of the "Aryan" race compared to the "subhuman" Jew or "insert ethnic minority here".  So while you, and rational others such as Hollodero, can find his comments disturbing and flirting, at best, with the concept of eugenics, a direct comparison to Hitler's statements in Mein Kampf is wholly inappropriate because of what Trump did said, but far more so because of what he did not.  So, insanely inflammatory comparisons to Nazis and Hitler aside, the direct comparison doesn't even withstand scrutiny without those loaded comparison.

Quite simply, and I honestly ask that you not give me a two page answer to this because I find them ponderous (no insult here, I'm being honest), comparisons to Hitler or the Nazis will almost always be met with disdain on my part because of what they represent and how insanely prejudicial they are.