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Look who's back for more.
See? You did it again.
I said nothing about BLM.
You added it to try and mischaraterize my comment.
But there are even more things in heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. Let's look and see ...
Do you even REALIZE what you are doing? Or does it come natural? Or are you just a mindless troll?
If you weren't being INTENTIONALLY intellectually dishonest, then your NATURAL reaction was "Krystallnacht on steroids/Holocaust/violence = BLM." Maybe we should start by asking why YOU equate a post about violent protest with BLM? By every standard typically used in this little leftie echo chamber to measure others, THAT is racist. (Care to add hypocrisy to your resume, or are you satified with merely being racist?)
Even so, I will answer your question.
Yes. I’ve had many discussions with Jewish friends (and others) about the comparisons of violent US leftists in the US streets, and the Nazis in the German streets in the years leading up to their acquisition of power, and after. Its a question many academics used to discuss a lot, but can't openly these days. (A very dark cloud has been lowered over the Marketplace of Ideas in the US. Merely discussing issues these days can cost you a career when little minded people get into positions of power. Power corrupts. Absolute power corrrupts absolutely. And just a little social power, plus the internet, and a little toxic politics, and - poof. Ideas disappear. HERE is what free speech and academic freedom and the marketplace of ideas on campuses look like now - behold Professor Leftie Unithought, confronting an idea:
Street violence was a very important tool for the Nazis. They used it to intimidate and quell dissent - as it is being used today. They weren't the first. And dang sure weren't the last. There has been long chain of folks who attack ideas and then people. Burning a library has already here been defended, rationalized, explained, minimalized, understood, given sympathy. And - as the academics also know and teach - "Where they burn books, they will in the end also burn people."
I first discussed this issue in the late 70’s, in a college course - the single best I ever took - addressing mostly the Middle East, but framed by and in the context of the US violence of the late 60’s and early 70’s and the then-and-still-ongoing street violence in Gaza and the West Bank. Those discussions included an Israeli ambassador to the US and the Palestinian representative to the UN. (I’ll bet you didn’t know that in those days, it was illegal for PLO officials to even be in the US, except thier UN reps. I had tea and cake with him. We also discussed the differences in treatment between Palestinians in Israel and the American Indian in the US. Real discussions. Not silly ass message board posts.) More recent discussions were over golf and beers at the country club here begun by Jewish people even before The Great War, who faced discrimination and weren’t admitted to the Gentile clubs. Even as a Gentile, I was a welcomed member there for many years, and I still have many friends from there. And even more recent discussions were at the place where I work, with people with whom I work, and clients/friends, left and right, Jew and gentile, black and white, where we also talk with Fortune 100 execs, Fortune 500 execs, mayors, governors, senators, representatives, and other policy makers - while you jerk around here like a child-like oaf.
You need to either stop - because you are so far out of your league you don't even know where the field is - or put away your keyboard and leave the echo chamber this place has become and learn a little from the real world before spouting off again. Jesters have very little impact.
