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>"Sticky moralism"? "Almost-Victorian purism"? Are these expressions
>supposed to refer to the view that a Colorado professor cheering on the
>indiscriminate slaughterers of thousands as heroic freedom-fighters and
>using the cliched Nazi smear against their victims might perhaps have
>stepped a bit beyond the realm of reason?
>
>And is Churchillian (Ward Churchillian, that is) rhetoric actually at all
>preferable politically to the "sticky moralism" that dares to raise an
>eyebrow at this "little Eichmann" stuff? If by politics one means building
>a large, strong, effective movement of average, workaday Americans, a
>rhetoric which shows such disregard for their feelings about this horrific
>event (yes, it was horrific, not -- *not* -- a "heroic deed" by any
>means) would hardly seem a practical approach. You will notice that Paula
>Zahn and everyone else on the right who has lit out after Churchill starts
>out by bringing up the Eichmann thing; he would obviously have had a lot
>better chance of getting people to pay attention, at least, to his basic
>idea if he hadn't dragged in this old Nazi reference, which was indeed "crap."
>
>Once and for all, it is time to put an end to this knee-jerk,
>counterproductive screaming about Nazis and Hitler and Eichmann by
>lefties, or would-be lefties. It cheapens the memory of the Holocaust and
>demeans anyone who uses it, besides automatically condemning them to being
>ignored by most of the people they are talking to.
>
>
>Jon Johanning // jjohanning at igc.org
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>Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize
>the process of war and form a principal part of the product. - Louis
>Mumford (from "Technics and Civilization")
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