Quote:No. Care to tell me why you hold them in high regard?
They are a racialist organization. Their whole raison d'etre is Identity Politics along ethnic lines. (In their case, Jewish.)
How does that make them special, or any better than Nation of Islam, the Klan, or the French Nationalist Party, or Bossi's crowd in Italy?
Here's another clue for you: politics is increasingly tribal. I used to call this "Balkanization" but I think I missed a few tricks. Iraq and Bosnia have taught me better.
As to its never being too late to be polite:
True.
I trust them enough to identify a picture of David Duke. They say it's David Duke. It fits the when, where, what and why of David Duke in the 1970s. It looks like David Duke. I've never heard anyone but you claim it *isn't* David Duke.
I think the ball's in your court.
-Jester
Afterthought: I also don't recall the last time the Anti-Defamation League left a burning Menorah on someone's lawn.
Link for the interested: David Duke, in 1997, on his own involvement in the Kunstler ("Chicago 7") protest, basically admitting that this is, in fact, himself in that picture wearing the Swastika armband.
http://www.thebirdman.org/Index/Others/Oth...thHateWatch.htm
He, of course, dissociates himself from his Nazi past, and claims to have moved on to bigger and better things. I frankly could care less what he says about himself, as he is among the least trustworthy people on the planet. But if the dude in the picture is a Neo-Nazi, or being as charitable as I possibly can be, only *was* a Neo-Nazi, and is now only an all around freak, he is very far from a reasonable comparison with Rev. Wright.