Daily Slave
August 27, 2014
A bunch of retards who claim to be journalists at the Casper Star Tribune have claimed that there is no room to discuss Adolf Hitler in political discussions. Needless to say, this is incredibly stupid.
They basically claim that because the German National Socialists were so evil that nothing can be accomplished by bringing up Hitler. This is of course a complete historical fabrication, but let’s brush that aside for the moment.
To say that we should not talk about a particular historical figure in the context of any political discussion is insane. This type of Marxist gibberish seems to have infested all aspects of our society. There are too many people who are incapable of thinking about anything critically because they have been brainwashed by so much Jewish propaganda. Is it any wonder why people vote for the same pro-Jew, pro-Israel morons to fill public offices?
I’ve posted the entire editorial below for you to see the insanity that they published.
Score one for Godwin’s Law.
That’s an adage that governs Internet discussion forums. It has two important parts: First, that the longer and more heated an argument, the more likely it is that someone will invoke Adolf Hitler; and second, that once someone does toss Hitler or other Third Reich figures into the discussion, it is effectively over. Nothing productive, the thinking goes, can happen from that point on.
Charles Cloud proved it right. Cloud, the husband of state auditor Cynthia Cloud who last week lost his bid to unseat state Rep. David Northrup, R-Powell, enlivened the political discourse in House District 50 by referencing — who else? — Hitler. And what subject did the challenger deem appropriate for such a comparison?
Northrup’s support for pre-kindergarten programs, that’s what.
Questioning the incumbent’s view that the first three years of life is an important developmental stage for education, Cloud scoffed, “First of all, the 0 to 3 thing should scare people because I remember Hitler was the one that said, ‘Give me a child until he’s 3, and he will be mine forever.’ And I, sir, want to educate my own child from 0 to 3.’ I do not want the state.”
Cloud is, of course, free to say what he likes without government interference, under the protection of the First Amendment. But he’s not free to say what he did without consequences. Comparing an educational program to Hitler’s Third Reich is the way to end a conversation, not start it, and is disrespectful to those who suffered under the actual Nazi regime.
Afterward, Cloud — who joins a proud class of politicians and would-be politicians who have confidently and erroneously put that quote or some version of it in historic mouths, from Hitler to Lenin – tried to back away from the statement. He told the Star-Tribune that he wasn’t comparing Northrup to Hitler, which would have been a much better defense if he hadn’t just done that. He also suggested that he might have misquoted the leader of the Third Reich.
It’s safe to assume that if it gets to the point where you’re wondering if you misquoted Hitler, you’ve gone wrong somewhere.
Look, we understand that in the heat of the moment, people can overstate things. We’ve all said something we wish we could take back. But in political discourse, there’s no room for such eye-rolling hyperbole. Yanking out comparisons to Hitler and his regime only obstructs the debate about actual problems and proposed solutions. Opponents deserve better. Voters deserve better.
As we’ve noted, Cloud lost. We don’t know how much his Hitler reference played into his defeat. But we do hope he and other candidates, politicians and commentators take note: A comparison to Hitler and the Third Reich is never accurate, and worse, it’s downright disrespectful to victims of such evil.