"Confused?" "Pathetic?" Name callers automatically lose a debate.
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 9:16 PM, ARLO J BENSINGER JR <[email protected]> wrote: > [Platt] > Nice try to avoid the issue. Compare the human misery resulting from the > actions of big business and big government from the 1890's to the present, > including workplace conditions in factories and concentration camps. > > [Arlo] > Avoid the issue? You'd be funny were such distortions not so obvious. My > original point, which you as usual have twisted into something about the > Nazis, > was that the conditions by which the majority of people live are far better > today than they were during the 1890s. And a large part of that improvement > are > the controls placed upon by the social level by intellect, from workplace > safety laws to literacy programs and public education. And last I checked, > it > has been a long time since an American river caught on fire. > > The Nazi's were, of course, anti-intellectual, and they rose a wave to > power > manipulating xenophobia, anti-media fear and anti-academy rhetoric. To even > TRY > to equate workplace safety laws with the holocaust shows only how pathetic > you > are, and how confused, but I'm sure such nonsense gets applause on > talk-radio. > > "Communism and socialism, programs for intellectual control over society, > were > confronted by the reactionary forces of fascism, a program for the social > control of intellect." (LILA) > > "This conflict explains the driving force behind Hitler not as an insane > search > for power but as an all-consuming glorification of social authority and > hatred > of intellectualism. His anti-Semitism was fueled by anti-intellectualism. > His > hatred of communists was fueled by anti-intellectualism. His exaltation of > the > German volk was fueled by it. His fanatic persecution of any kind of > intellectual freedom was driven by it." (LILA) > > > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org/md/archives.html > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
