Is Obama hurting the Democratic Party by not joining forces with Hilla
Quote:Yeah, I'd like to see where I did that too.

Well, it started here...

Quote:As Pete said... "Absence of proof is not proof of absence." Would you have condemned Hitler after he wrote "Mein Kampf", but before he acted out his sick manifesto?

... which is a strange thing to say in response to a post asking you to cite a single violent opinion of Rev. Wright's, given how trivial it is to cite one of Hitler's. By the standard I had just set for Wright, Hitler was obviously a violent racist lunatic, and all it would take was one quote among thousands to support it. Dozens of such quotes were readily available even before Hitler wrote Mein Kampf, let alone afterwards. I assumed this was obvious. When I then followed up that post by pointing out that you'd just Godwinned the thread, you came back with this:

Quote:I think comparing a fiery bigoted orator who is calling for the destruction of the white enemy qualifies as an appropriate use.

Are you saying this "comparing" you are doing is not a comparison between Wright and Hitler? That one "firey bigoted orator who is calling for the destruction of the [racial] enemy" is much like another? Because if not, I'm at a bit of a loss as to what you mean.

Quote: And, in my opinion, when the subject is racial hatred, antisemitism, and fiery orators my questioning the limits of your tolerance seemed an appropriate and acceptable comparison.

How is this not a comparison to Hitler? It might not be a straight up Wright = Hitler and that's that, but you're very clearly putting them as two of a kind.

Further explaining what you were doing, you wrote:

Quote:I connected the fiery rhetoric of one man who was in a position for inspiring a world war and massive genocide as an example of how horrible bigotry and racism can be.

And since you were in the process of discussing how Wright's (percieved) bigotry and racism was probably causing violence, you were comparing Wright to Hitler. How could you not be? You're saying they're the same type of thing, and that the one could lead to horrible violence just like the other. If that's not a comparison, I really don't know what it is.

Quote:Then, in every post since then you have posted ad-naseum about it. Even when I suggested that you skip it, since you can't seem to grasp what I was suggesting, you still can't stop.

One might even say I'm indefatigable! Jestrification lives on!

-Jester
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Is Obama hurting the Democratic Party by not joining forces with Hilla - by Jester - 03-28-2008, 06:59 AM

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