So I wasn't planning on posting today,
but a client had requested that I pen
a recommendation for her on LinkedIn,
which I'm happy to do.
She's definitely a pleasure to work with,
and quite sharp.
Problem is, I'm quite sleepy
and for the life of me,
can't figure out how
to get a paragraph in that
doesn't sound like it was written
by a spaced-out toddler who'd just finished her ice-cream.
So I tried reading the news.
Went to The Guardian,
and saw an opinion piece on
Germany's approach to antisemitism:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/29/the-guardian-view-on-german-responses-to-antisemitism-frankness-and-honesty
It was open for comments.
Yep.
As usual,
with anything even remotely related to Muslims,
you get a deluge of bigoted comments,
including for people who purportedly
are concerned about discrimination against Jews.
The same types of comments that
you'd get on any article involving Muslims and women.
Even if it were an article about the achievement of a woman
who happens to be Muslim.
Yea...
I get the feeling it's kind of like
a guy with swastika tattoos
who's beating on his wife
whilst shouting at the TV at how
those Muslims are supposedly treating women and other minorities.
They do not argue in good faith,
so there's no convincing them otherwise.
This is also why I get confused
when some people eschew violence
completely whilst protesting against
those who are happy to commit horrific violence upon them.
If your objective is to get them to stop it,
then in some cases violence is needed.
Not excessive violence.
But enough to make them stop.
But that's just my opinion.
So back to this article,
going through the comments,
it becomes clear that for most of these guys,
critical thinking is something only "liberal elites" do.
For example,
quite a few of them seem to equate "far right"
with... "Whites".
So they were complaining that
Muslim extremists were wrongly classified.
You could not make this up.
I hate to break it to you guys,
but far right Muslims are still... you know, far right.
You fucking idiots.
Oh, and we're forgetting
a little something, aren't we?
The German state also classify
criticism of Zionists and Israel as "antisemitic".
So if you were against the apartheid state and its policies,
you'd be labeled as a racist, an anti-Semite.
Which is ironic,
since Palestinian Arabs happen to be Semites as well.
But yeah.
I'm severely annoyed,
but it's being blunted by how sleepy I am.
Think I've managed to figure out how to get that paragraph done.
Will get to it now.
Well enough of that.
Wednesday, May 29, 2019
Monday, May 20, 2019
Nazis
I've got a lot to say,
but I'll need to make this short
before my daughter and wife
come out of the room,
demanding attention.
So I've finished listening to
one of Joe Rogan's podcasts
with Annie Jacobsen,
who wrote a book about Operation Paperclip,
which is about the Nazi scientist who were brought
over to America by the government.
One argument I've heard
over and over again is that yeah,
while these were
horrible people who did unspeakable things,
at least they discovered or their research paved the way to
a cure for a horrible disease or some other modern marvel
that we would have never discovered otherwise.
Oh yes,
innocent people (including children)
had to experience great suffering,
and sure, we sulk about it from time to time,
but hey, it all worked out in the end!
Thumbs up everyone!
It's all good!
This fucking pisses me the hell off.
Why?
Well first of all,
it's based purely on speculation.
100%
How the fuck do we know
there weren't other, more humane ways?
We could of course
refer to the millions of potential
scientists and engineers...
brilliant people who were discriminated against,
tortured,
killed,
whole families...
but you know,
they ALL FUCKING DIED BEFORE THEY COULD DO ANYTHING.
Fuck the people
who try to justify the atrocities
or downplay how horrible it all was,
or try to ignore that aspect altogether.
The world could've turned
out differently...
or maybe it could've been worse,
who knows?
We'll never know because
of what those fuckers did.
Here's another thing that gets me.
Why do Westerners in general
consistently treat the Holocaust
as the worst thing that ever happened in the history of mankind?
It was undeniably horrible,
but the way it gets described,
it's as if there's a grotesque competition going on.
All other atrocities on a similar scale
tend to get brushed aside.
There are some who
claim that the Holocaust
is basically Europeans bringing to
Europe what they've been doing
in other parts of the world,
particularly Africa.
Where were
the trials and raft of laws
passed after the Congo Genocide?
I'll need to end this soon,
but I'll add this:
The Nazi scientists who
were brought to the US,
were LAUDED,
celebrated as great men.
They were given awards
and lavish banquets
and a lot of money.
Why?
You could've had
an arrangement
where they had to work,
and contribute
while on lifelong parole.
That wouldn't
have been anywhere
near justice,
but I could at least
understand that.
But nope!
They were
treated with honour and respect
and lived in motherfucking luxury.
How many Jewish or non-white
scientists do you think
managed to advance in NASA
while a fucking Nazi ran it?
And that was just a symptom.
The "people" who accommodated them,
the fucking animals who sympathised
with their twisted ideology,
were the ones who ran the government
and spread out in positions of power throughout the US.
With that kind of prevalent culture,
how many non-whites were
given the opportunity to learn and succeed?
I've heard racists
claim why aren't there
more people of colour
who have been awarded a Nobel prize as opposed to whites?
Well it's simple, assholes.
They were stopped before they had the chance.
Well enough of that.
but I'll need to make this short
before my daughter and wife
come out of the room,
demanding attention.
So I've finished listening to
one of Joe Rogan's podcasts
with Annie Jacobsen,
who wrote a book about Operation Paperclip,
which is about the Nazi scientist who were brought
over to America by the government.
One argument I've heard
over and over again is that yeah,
while these were
horrible people who did unspeakable things,
at least they discovered or their research paved the way to
a cure for a horrible disease or some other modern marvel
that we would have never discovered otherwise.
Oh yes,
innocent people (including children)
had to experience great suffering,
and sure, we sulk about it from time to time,
but hey, it all worked out in the end!
Thumbs up everyone!
It's all good!
This fucking pisses me the hell off.
Why?
Well first of all,
it's based purely on speculation.
100%
How the fuck do we know
there weren't other, more humane ways?
We could of course
refer to the millions of potential
scientists and engineers...
brilliant people who were discriminated against,
tortured,
killed,
whole families...
but you know,
they ALL FUCKING DIED BEFORE THEY COULD DO ANYTHING.
Fuck the people
who try to justify the atrocities
or downplay how horrible it all was,
or try to ignore that aspect altogether.
The world could've turned
out differently...
or maybe it could've been worse,
who knows?
We'll never know because
of what those fuckers did.
Here's another thing that gets me.
Why do Westerners in general
consistently treat the Holocaust
as the worst thing that ever happened in the history of mankind?
It was undeniably horrible,
but the way it gets described,
it's as if there's a grotesque competition going on.
All other atrocities on a similar scale
tend to get brushed aside.
There are some who
claim that the Holocaust
is basically Europeans bringing to
Europe what they've been doing
in other parts of the world,
particularly Africa.
Where were
the trials and raft of laws
passed after the Congo Genocide?
I'll need to end this soon,
but I'll add this:
The Nazi scientists who
were brought to the US,
were LAUDED,
celebrated as great men.
They were given awards
and lavish banquets
and a lot of money.
Why?
You could've had
an arrangement
where they had to work,
and contribute
while on lifelong parole.
That wouldn't
have been anywhere
near justice,
but I could at least
understand that.
But nope!
They were
treated with honour and respect
and lived in motherfucking luxury.
How many Jewish or non-white
scientists do you think
managed to advance in NASA
while a fucking Nazi ran it?
And that was just a symptom.
The "people" who accommodated them,
the fucking animals who sympathised
with their twisted ideology,
were the ones who ran the government
and spread out in positions of power throughout the US.
With that kind of prevalent culture,
how many non-whites were
given the opportunity to learn and succeed?
I've heard racists
claim why aren't there
more people of colour
who have been awarded a Nobel prize as opposed to whites?
Well it's simple, assholes.
They were stopped before they had the chance.
Well enough of that.
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