Is this stupidity or what?
Today I want to take on the elevation of words, in other words some words are so horrific that they can only used by designated groups and never used in comparisons to other things or people. I am talking about Nazis, Holocaust, Genocide and other words that the wordmongers and Bnai Brith have taken out of the vocabulary, except for their own use.
For example Sid Ryan keeps getting into trouble with the word arbitrators. His offense was to use the phrase, and I am paraphrasing, "Israel is behaving like Nazis". All hell broke loose and he was forced to apologise. The last time he did this was when he was forced to apologise for comparing Mike Harris to Hitler for some of his political decisions. It is ironic that the criticism of Ryan is coming from the people who never have a good word to say about him. How much of the venom is directed against Ryan and how much for his turns of the phrase?
But back to the argument that only the sufferers, the Jews, can use Holocaust and Hitler, iand then in the defensive form. I think that is wrong. Words are for all and cannot be appropriated by any group for their own purposes.
If a nation and its leaders are committing war crimes against another people especially civilians then why can't they be accused of acting like murderous troops - the Nazis? And if a leader is acting like an evil dictator, at times then he should be compared to the most evil of dictators - Pol Pot or Hitler.
In conclusion what are going to call the next evil meglomaniac that the Earth will come across if the name of Hitler has been expunged?
For example Sid Ryan keeps getting into trouble with the word arbitrators. His offense was to use the phrase, and I am paraphrasing, "Israel is behaving like Nazis". All hell broke loose and he was forced to apologise. The last time he did this was when he was forced to apologise for comparing Mike Harris to Hitler for some of his political decisions. It is ironic that the criticism of Ryan is coming from the people who never have a good word to say about him. How much of the venom is directed against Ryan and how much for his turns of the phrase?
But back to the argument that only the sufferers, the Jews, can use Holocaust and Hitler, iand then in the defensive form. I think that is wrong. Words are for all and cannot be appropriated by any group for their own purposes.
If a nation and its leaders are committing war crimes against another people especially civilians then why can't they be accused of acting like murderous troops - the Nazis? And if a leader is acting like an evil dictator, at times then he should be compared to the most evil of dictators - Pol Pot or Hitler.
In conclusion what are going to call the next evil meglomaniac that the Earth will come across if the name of Hitler has been expunged?
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Speaking of comments, Ben, or nomenclature in the case I'm refering to, how is it that the phrase 'right to exist' is simply accepted when Israel chooses to defend itself? Yes, I can understand that a modern United Nations charter legitimized the creation of the State Of Israel. No problem. But where did The United Nations get its legitimacy? Did the people of Palestine sign on to that? And if so when? Before they were displaced by the creation of Israel -or after?
To exist as a human is one thing. To exist as a geographical creation is quite another. The right of human beings to collectivly exist without fear of massive air strikes and ground assaults on their refugee camps should certainly be a right that trumps drawn-up maps -maps that put them in those refugee camps in the first place.
Propaganda is textual assault
From Through The Looking Glass:
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less."
"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."
"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master - that's all."
Ben Burd asserts: "But back to the argument that only the sufferers, the Jews, can use Holocaust and Hitler, iand then in the defensive form. I think that is wrong. Words are for all and cannot be appropriated by any group for their own purposes."
Why should niggers be the only ones who can use the word nigger? Ain't that right Ben?
Glad to see you back in the public domain Merklin
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