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High standards at the Washington Post Op-Ed page

A white pride advocate is invited to argue that Barack Obama and John Edwards are girly gays.

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  • Sunday, May 18, 2008 10:59 AM

    the problem with just comparing this to nazism

    is that all of the most influential US Jewish organisations are right behind it. The temptation to dismiss this, by claiming that these Jewish organisations are institutionally psychotic, is very great, but this is just playing with words. In fact, these Jewish organisations know perfectly well that they are supporting something that is a mirror image of nazism in some respects, and they also know that, because of the enormity of it, most of its opponents will fall into the trap of describing it as American nazism, which is nonsensical. It is precisely the rhetoric of ANTI-nazism that powers US totalitarianism, and I think I have already offered as much material as possible to show how this came about. This is why I object to just pasting in material about German nazism. It doesn't explain the apparent paradox, does it?

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