WaPo has me firewalled until next month because I’m over my free article limit, but unless he’s doing a canine version of The Producers or Dr. Strangelove, fuck this noise about freedom of speech.
“My girlfriend is always ranting and raving about how cute and adorable her wee dog is,” he said in his Scottish brogue. “And so I thought I would turn him into the least cute thing I could think of, which is a Nazi.”
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“I feel in the long run I didn’t do anything wrong,” he said on Jones’s show. “It was clearly satire. It was clearly a joke. I wasn’t setting out to cause any offense to any people. If anything, I was wanting people to laugh, and just obviously, it was taken the wrong way.”
No, that’s not satire. Satire is when you make a point by hilariously arguing against it. If The Onion wrote an article entitled “Free Speech Advocates: Dogs Should Be Allowed to Give Nazi Salute,” that would be satire. Teaching your girlfriend’s dog the Nazi salute with no other intention than to piss her off is just a childish prank.
And yes, he intended to offend someone. He intended to offend his girlfriend. And I sincerely hope he succeeded well enough to get well and truly dumped.
You know about incognito/private windows, right?
He stressed that he hates “racism in any way shape or form. …
But, you know, not enough to take it seriously.
That makes so much sense. FTA:
many historians adopted what is known as the Sonderweg thesis—the idea that Germany had followed a “special path” in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, different from that of other Western nations.
But wasn’t European colonialism fundamentally racist? (Not a historian here.)
And he knowingly broke the law to do so; unfuck that douchebag.
What the actual fuck.
I’m sure there were bad people on both sides.
In a torchlight circle it depends on how you work the topology.
I love Unicorn Riot. I support them financially. They have done outstanding work on this. No real surprise that the cops were coordinating with the neo-Nazis there.
Also, am I the only one who finds the Nazi’s rhetoric amusingly quaint? “The Reds”??? How long ago was it that this was a thing??
And they call themselves a “workers’ party???”
Not a new thing.
(From http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny)
Everything old is new again.
The TWP were the Strasserite wing of the modern American Nazis. Heavy emphasis on white working class recruitment, in contrast to the middle/upper-class targeting of Spencer et al.
They were never large in numbers, though; most workers aren’t dumb enough to fall for that shit.
Yes, just like it was the Jews that made people hate them during the Holocaust.