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Originally Posted by Glice
1. Comparing anything to the Nazis is off-limit. Because nothing is rational then.
2. I was contrasting that 'Ni'k is extreme' with your also excessively extreme statement. Ni'k is criticising the here-and-now, not relying overly on historical/ hysterical antecedents.
3. China (by western reports) didn't kill people in preparation for the games, they relocated them; they also shut down any means of peaceful protest. The did this in a horrible and inhumane fashion. The Nazis shot insurgents and protesters. As did Pinochet (etc).
4. Regarding the 'foot-in-mouth' comment, I talk a lot of shit. I didn't, however, at any point start and continue defending a thread in which I suggested that "Germany's" holocaust memorials were somehow 'Disneyland-esque'; I likewise didn't suggest that Germany was somehow proud of murdering a sizeable proportion of Jewry in Europe.
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a) The Nazis did a lot of totalitarian things
BEFORE genocide, and it is of course historically fair game to compare the extreme authoritarianism of the Nazi regime to other examples of blatant and inappropriate authoritarianism.
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Originally Posted by ni'k
i mean WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG with a human being who dedicates their life to trying to run a certain distance in less and less miliseconds. how much do you have to hate your body and the possibilites of existance to dedicate yourself to something like that? and all the fucking nationalism that goes along with it? yuk. disgusting.
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how is this
not extreme?
c) The Chinese employed very similar tactics as the Nazis in regards to the Olympics, in fact the same kinds of tactics the Nazis used when they hosted the Games in Berlin (relocation, censorship, mass arrests, propaganda etc etc).. also, the Nazis unlawfully with excessive force relocated people and
THEN executed them.. Glice you seem to have your WWII time line all mixed up my brother.
d) get over it.. that was one post, and I stand by my statement.. When I see cameras, back packs, tour buses and souvenir cups how am I
not talking about a tourist attraction? We disagree regarding an opinion, but now three times you have incorrectly criticized the facts I have posted. You only have two feet my friend, whose foot did you borrow to cram into your mouth with your own two?