A comment got away from me in marc’s Post on the recent Hitler Culturally Pure All White Conservative Christian Youth Rally, in which he said:
But did he [Hitler] stage an “anti-porn rally?” If not, well, the Christians may have him there.
Well the nuremburg rallies were a combination of the republican national convention, a white pride rally, and a pink floyd laser show (on a side note, the infamous “cathedral of light” was not accidentally named – it was a direct appeal to germany’s christian heritage and the overarching conflation between “christianity” and the nazi’s Cult of The Majority Party that ran through most nazi propaganda).
The white pride bit is where the anti-pr0n aspect came in, alot of the book burnings did include stuff that was deemed “amoral” and “pornographic” according to the mythology of the superior aryan culture’s morality, even stuff that did nothing more than frankly discussed/represented sex or sexuality outside the “biblical” standard the nazis said they wanted to return germany too – and in turn are things like sex and the city or Brokeback Mountain deemed equivalent to hardcore porn in the american fundies’ KultureJihad myths. I do hope that the historical fact that the people who were responsbile for the Holocaust also talked big about “morality” surprises no one by this point, this is “Pro-Life is Pro-War” America we’re talking about after all, doublethink is the swastika armband and faux-military uniform of the mind.
The War Against Porn, “Ze Vee-Vord*” And Cursing is another excuse for book burnings, bannings and other techniques for minitrue’s memoryholing of ideologically impure works from the mainstream culture so as to make it conform more and more with the far right’s conception of The Pure Culture. Which, as orwell noted in 1984, is anti-sex in nature, because freedom of sexual expression is subversive to The Majority Party’s mythology, as it was during the slavery era (“jumping the broom” ring any bells to right wingers? Not that they’d admit it of course, how many times have they banned SSM in Texas now, is it two or three times?) and still is today.
And I’m just talking as an amateur historian here, not as a “shrill and hysterical” lefty, I’m just calling it as I see it *spits chewing ‘baccy into nearby spitoon*, merely calling a facist a facist and a meathook by which they ended up swinging from, a meathook, something more people should probably do really, the Far Right Wing stopped pussy footing around in 2002 after all, and it’s not my fault that they happen to share ideology and terminology (“Clash of Civilisations”, “Culture War”, “crusades” against the barbaric and subhuman muslims etc…) with the nazis.
*”The V-Word” AKA “Vagina”, as referred to by infamous Black Ribboners like Ben Shapiro (who’s not at all gay, he just signed a pledge to never have sex with non-men is all) or Mike “Inexplicable Doctorate” Adams, but with a thick uberwald accent of course.
Hey R Mildred,
I can’t tell if you’re concerned I think the Culturally Pure All White Conservative Christian Youth are somehow less reprehensible than Hitler because they claim that they hate porn.
If you are, rest assured that they garner no points in my book for this — thus the SS reference in my post, etc. I think we’re all on the same page about the foul nature of this expanding net of social control and the increasing number of brainwashed minions of all ages falling under its spell.
I just found it funny that they somehow distinguished themselves from Hitler because they were more anti-porn. Not less hateful or less bigoted or uninterested in murdering millions or what have you, but they were different only because Hitler never staged an “anti-porn rally.”
If I don’t laugh, I will cry. Or explode in rage.
oh god, no, not insuating anything about your character, I wouldn’t blog here if I thought you thought the theofacists were okay in someway, just a historical note that hitler was anti-porn as much as the fundies and it just became too big to seem like a comment, you know? (I have size issues). If that wasn’t clear I apologise.
And it is funny that they distinguish themselves by the fact that they’re more anti-sex than hitler.
It’s like when the right wingers note that the nazis were the “national Socialist worker’s party” or call social programs “stalinist” as though what was really wrong with stalinist russia and nazi germany was the social programs they used, not the mass murder, the societal oppression, the war mongering and willful belief that “might makes right”.
No, the real problem with the nazis was that they weren’t anti-porn, or failed to hate the idea of welfare schemes to stop people starving in the street.
You expect them to say “I agree with what hitler said, but his absolute failier to force old people to eat dog food was immoral in my books”, followed by me hitting them over the head with a clue-by-four until morality spontaneously emerges in their brains.
sweet. but no apology needed even if you had wanted to call me out. the odds are good that someday i will deserve it (a la the “i don’t make mistakes you just don’t like the joke” John Aravosis)…