Moms for Liberty Speaker Says It's Time to Start Re-Reading Hitler, Stalin, & Mao
Moms for Liberty Speaker Says It's Time to Start Re-Reading Hitler, Stalin, & Mao
North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (R) suggested at a prayer breakfast for the fascist "parental rights" group that dictators are being taken out of context.
“Here’s the thing,” Robinson said. “Whether you’re talking about Adolf Hitler, whether you’re talking about Chairman Mao, whether you’re talking about Stalin, whether you’re talking about Pol Pot, whether you’re talking about Castro in Cuba, or whether you’re talking about a dozen other despots all around the globe, it is time for us to get back and start reading some of those quotes.”
This is the Lieutenant Governor of a state (North Carolina) saying we can get gems from the quotes of genocidal maniacs. This is where we are now.
So what i am hearing is that if libs read that stuff it’s unamerican but if they are reading it they are using it as a source book of authoritarianism of sorts.
The new right wing astroturf group funded by the wealthy to control the news cycle. Just tiresome.
The most relevant quote I could think of:
"Only one thing could have stopped our movement - if our adversaries had understood its principle and from the first day smashed with the utmost brutality the nucleus of our new movement." - Hitler
It's just a shame that those who need to hear it are too busy calling us bigots for "calling everyone you disagree with a Nazi" while actual literal Nazis are getting organised in the background....
It's almost like living in a satire, not sure if it's more absurd or scary.
The best part is when you argue this, they will argue with nuance and equal footing. As if the basis of this movement is legitimately comparable to super liberal people that... Checks notes want human rights for others.
Then you point out that centrism clearly enables fascism, and their heads explode in rage (if only)..
I used to be a centrist, and I guarantee you they genuinely do not get that this far-right fascism is NOT a legitimate political faction or worldview. They think it's legit simply because 100 million Republicans exist, and that us what they say, so it must be a legit political school of thought. But fascism, hate and genocide are not.
I guess we could try telling them that the right is not legitimate and that by treating them as if they are, they're enabling genocide, but who knows if that would register with them. You could play with it and suss out who is a genuine centrist and who is a fascist shill pretending to be, though.
This is a feature of fascism, the gaslighting, I mean.
I think you mean “Hoes for Hitler.”
Moms for Mao?
Stupes for Stalin!
Twazis
I thought Klanned Karenhood was clever and apt.
We should be reading them though
I thought we were the party of "banning books is bad"?
Read them with historical context.
I’m don’t support this guy, and he’s absolutely pandering, but in the context of what he actually said in that speech the meaning is the exact opposite of what the article and op are suggesting. Just watch the actual video and not just this out of context clip
But when they're also trying to ban books and water down history in schools I can't take them in for faith.
Has this guy ever tried reading Mein Kampf? My grandma had a copy when I was a kid (I don't think she was a nazi...) and I looked at it once out of curiosity. It read like incoherent nonsense to me at the time. I always figured it would have been more useful as fire kindling or compost for a garden.
Fact is, it's an important work for historical reasons. If you want to understand how Nazism works, and how it differs from Italian fascism, and be able to draw the lines that connect Nazis to historical German (and other nationalities) anti-Semitism, you need to read it.
If I had a copy, I wouldn't put it on display, but it is the kind of thing I can totally see being assigned in a college course on WW2 or some similar topic.
NB: I've only read a few excerpts for a class similar to the one I described above.
Also, I am against book burning in any circumstance. A book is never worth more as kindling, unless you're actually freezing and then it would be a hard choice.
It's nice to hear them saying the quiet part out loud - and then doubling down on it.
To me it's terrifying that it's escalated to the point where they are openly espouseing genocidal maniacs