As mentioned in my previous article Jay Bennish has been suspended for 79 words comparing Bush to Hitler in a 3000 word excerpt from a much longer lecture:
Wow. I just read the entire transcript. I'm mostly boggling over Michelle Malkin who supports the Danish cartoonist's right to free speech to depict that the father of Muslim carries dynamite in his turban, but thinks that Jay Bennish needs professional help because he is anti-Bush.
It all made sense when I saw that she's affiliated with Pajamas Media.
Michelle Malkin is a psychotic, hateful, racist, fascist enabler, who thinks that internment of Japanese in WWII was so sensible that we should seriously consider doing the same with terrists. Er, that is, arabs.
The reason it's so destructive to throw around Nazi references willy-nilly in a Usenet conversation is that you're trying to shut down rational discussion by using emotionally loaded rhetoric as a trump card. "Whatever you're saying is automatically wrong because HITLER."
But "whatever you said is automatically wrong because YOU SAID HITLER" is basically a variant of the same tactic.
I'm not terribly surprised by this. Denver is one of the more enlightened places in Colorado. Saying that makes it sound like a beacon for education and intelligence. Sadly, this means it's a tad bit more sane than the average schizophrenic in California.
I'm glad he was trying to teach. It's a good change, and there should be more teachers like him. Specially in the glorified cow-towns that make up most of Colorado.
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It all made sense when I saw that she's affiliated with Pajamas Media.
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But "whatever you said is automatically wrong because YOU SAID HITLER" is basically a variant of the same tactic.
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I'm glad he was trying to teach. It's a good change, and there should be more teachers like him. Specially in the glorified cow-towns that make up most of Colorado.
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