So small is this small fry you can barely see him.
If this guy deserves this sort of thing for two months holding doors at Auschwitz, what about Günter Grass?
Günter Grass, Haruki Murakami and the importance of national guilt
Wow, guilt-trip politics that shouts its own name.
Who is Peter Thompson (the Howard Zinn of Britain?) and why does he have the megaphone?
Oh, right, it's The Guardian.
If you really believe the lie that it's a question of whitewashing the past versus accurate history you are a fool refusing to see what is before your eyes.
"Culture of contrition," indeed.
Why would you want to empower the emerging, biggest thug on the block, China, to bully Japan, cynically exploiting guilt-trip politics for its aggressive aims?
This is typical: Manila 'cute little submissive' of US: China media
(Don't hold your breath while you wait for someone to push the Chinese off those illegally occupied islands in the South China Sea on which they are rapidly digging in.)
Gunter Grass Was a Finger-Wagging Scold
But even this fellow in the midst of criticizing Grass for being a scold goes pretty far along with the too, too PC CMW (conventional moral wisdom), himself.
As The Guardian’s Jonathan Steele remarked is his obituary, Grass “spent his life reminding his compatriots of the darkest time in their history, the crimes of the Nazi period …”
This sounds like an admirable position—the ordinary Germans who allowed their country to be seized by criminals and became accomplices to genocide should be constantly reminded of their complicity—but everywhere he turned Grass heard the clicking heels of jackboots.
And everything with which he disagreed was a harbinger of resurgent Nazism.
It is remotely possible that the ordinary folk of Germany, taken as a mass, might have prevented Hitler's rise to power, though it was not in fact their doing but, Hitler and his Nazis aside, that of the octogenarian president of the German Republic.
Hindenburg
Though 84 years old and in poor health, Hindenburg was persuaded to run for reelection in 1932, as he was considered the only candidate who could defeat Hitler.
Hindenburg was reelected [president] in a runoff.
Although he opposed Hitler, he played an important role in the Nazi Party's rise to power, due to the increasing political instability in the Weimar Republic.
He dissolved the parliament twice in 1932 and finally appointed Hitler Chancellor in January 1933.
In February, he issued the Reichstag Fire Decree, which suspended various civil liberties, and in March he signed the Enabling Act, which gave Hitler's administration legislative powers.
Hindenburg died the following year, after which Hitler declared the office of President vacant and, as "Führer und Reichskanzler", made himself head of state.
It is as close to certain as one can get that no individual ordinary citizen could have stopped Hitler's rise to power, unless perhaps means are contemplated (assassination) that liberals have repeatedly assured us are exactly as wrong and useless as the enhanced interrogation of Muslim terrorists.
Günter Grass, Haruki Murakami and the importance of national guilt
Wow, guilt-trip politics that shouts its own name.
Who is Peter Thompson (the Howard Zinn of Britain?) and why does he have the megaphone?
Oh, right, it's The Guardian.
If you really believe the lie that it's a question of whitewashing the past versus accurate history you are a fool refusing to see what is before your eyes.
"Culture of contrition," indeed.
Why would you want to empower the emerging, biggest thug on the block, China, to bully Japan, cynically exploiting guilt-trip politics for its aggressive aims?
This is typical: Manila 'cute little submissive' of US: China media
(Don't hold your breath while you wait for someone to push the Chinese off those illegally occupied islands in the South China Sea on which they are rapidly digging in.)
Gunter Grass Was a Finger-Wagging Scold
But even this fellow in the midst of criticizing Grass for being a scold goes pretty far along with the too, too PC CMW (conventional moral wisdom), himself.
As The Guardian’s Jonathan Steele remarked is his obituary, Grass “spent his life reminding his compatriots of the darkest time in their history, the crimes of the Nazi period …”
This sounds like an admirable position—the ordinary Germans who allowed their country to be seized by criminals and became accomplices to genocide should be constantly reminded of their complicity—but everywhere he turned Grass heard the clicking heels of jackboots.
And everything with which he disagreed was a harbinger of resurgent Nazism.
It is remotely possible that the ordinary folk of Germany, taken as a mass, might have prevented Hitler's rise to power, though it was not in fact their doing but, Hitler and his Nazis aside, that of the octogenarian president of the German Republic.
Hindenburg
Though 84 years old and in poor health, Hindenburg was persuaded to run for reelection in 1932, as he was considered the only candidate who could defeat Hitler.
Hindenburg was reelected [president] in a runoff.
Although he opposed Hitler, he played an important role in the Nazi Party's rise to power, due to the increasing political instability in the Weimar Republic.
He dissolved the parliament twice in 1932 and finally appointed Hitler Chancellor in January 1933.
In February, he issued the Reichstag Fire Decree, which suspended various civil liberties, and in March he signed the Enabling Act, which gave Hitler's administration legislative powers.
Hindenburg died the following year, after which Hitler declared the office of President vacant and, as "Führer und Reichskanzler", made himself head of state.
It is as close to certain as one can get that no individual ordinary citizen could have stopped Hitler's rise to power, unless perhaps means are contemplated (assassination) that liberals have repeatedly assured us are exactly as wrong and useless as the enhanced interrogation of Muslim terrorists.
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