Holocaust Demagoguery, Bad History
I cannot begin to say how much this Facebook-derived meme-placard annoys me, and it keeps popping on my FB friend's pages over and over and over.
Although it is clearly appealing on a very superficial level, it is obnoxious on a number of levels.
First, it OBVIOUSLY greatly over-simplifies the holocaust, and of course uses the inaccurate and propaganda-derived 6 million figure.
Second, it assumes that no one fought back against Hitler, which was clearly not the case.
Third, the most direct logic here is that all (?) Americans are going to be "holocausted", an idea which at this point, is stupid beyond belief.
Fourth, if it's really about a charismatic leader can charm a country's people to do evil, it's phrased completely wrong.
Arrggghhh.... but of course, everyone goes ahead and "likes" this, which is kind of funny because it actually shows how sheep-like people can be even when they think they are not sheep.
Although it is clearly appealing on a very superficial level, it is obnoxious on a number of levels.
First, it OBVIOUSLY greatly over-simplifies the holocaust, and of course uses the inaccurate and propaganda-derived 6 million figure.
Second, it assumes that no one fought back against Hitler, which was clearly not the case.
Third, the most direct logic here is that all (?) Americans are going to be "holocausted", an idea which at this point, is stupid beyond belief.
Fourth, if it's really about a charismatic leader can charm a country's people to do evil, it's phrased completely wrong.
Arrggghhh.... but of course, everyone goes ahead and "likes" this, which is kind of funny because it actually shows how sheep-like people can be even when they think they are not sheep.
posted by spooked at 2:37 PM
1 Comments:
"Arrggghhh.... but of course, everyone goes ahead and "likes" this, which is kind of funny because it actually shows how sheep-like people can be even when they think they are not sheep." Well said!
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