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Good Grief, where to begin?
First: Fact - The German Nazi government was a fascist government.
Fact: In 1933, The Nazi Party defeated the German Communist Party in Germany. They then went on to put Communists, Socialists, Union Leader, Intellectuals and other liberal thinkers in concentration camps. Namely Dacha Concentration Camp.
Fact: Nazi Germany invaded Russia in 1941 during WW2.
Fact: The Nazi movement in America at that time was closely tied to t he german movement. There is no evidence that the German American Bund was full of liberal thinkers or any liberal in government.
Fact : It was FDR who declared war on fascism. Conservatives tended to be isolationist.
These are facts that all students of history should be taught
As serious students it will be clear to see that the nazi party has nothing in common with the democratic party of today. Anyone who claims they do know nothing about ww2 history .
Do some research on D'Souza. Research his "credentials". And his criminal history. Guess Who pardoned D'souza?
That trump recommends his books and "documentaries" is enough for some people to stay away.
But dsouza and his compatriots are trying to rewrite history. It is so important to get the word out that his theories are crackpot. Forget the doubletalk and regurgitating of the same old tired slogans from history deniers. Lets make history about facts again. Not about comfortable narratives.
What is the conservative saying?
Facts don't care about your feelings. Except when your feelings care too much about the facts, it seems.
From Wikipedia
The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left
In July 2017, D'Souza published The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left. In the book, D'Souza asserts that the 2016 Democratic Party platform was similar to the platform of the Third Reich. The statement received media attention in 2018 when repeated by Donald Trump Jr.. PolitiFact gave the claim its "Pants-on-Fire" rating, noting that "only a small number of elements of the two platforms are clearly similar, and those are so uncontroversial that they appear in the Republican platform as well."[54] Historians refuted the assertion, with University of Maryland historian and Barack Obama critic Jeffrey Herf saying, "There is not the slightest, tiny sliver in which this could be even somewhat accurate."[54] In another review of the book, historian Nicole Hemmer, then of the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs, wrote: "For a book about secret Nazis, The Big Lie is surprisingly dull ... The Big Lie thus adds little to the no-you're-the-fascist genre on the right".[55] New York Times columnist Ross Douthat criticized the book, saying it was a "plea-for-attention" by D'Souza, and that the author had "become a hack". Douthat further stated, "Because D'Souza has become a professional deceiver, what he adds are extraordinary elisions, sweeping calumnies and laughable leaps."[56]
In an article for the American Conservative, historian and philosopher Paul Gottfried, who has written extensively on the subject of fascism, harshly criticized a PragerU video hosted by Dinesh D'Souza which maintained that fascism was a leftist ideology. D'Souza maintained that Italian philosopher Giovanni Gentile, who influenced Italian fascism, was a leftist, to which Gottfried noted that this contradicted the research by "almost all scholars of Gentile's work, from across the political spectrum, who view him, as I do in my study of fascism, as the most distinguished intellectual of the revolutionary right."[57]
First: Fact - The German Nazi government was a fascist government.
Fact: In 1933, The Nazi Party defeated the German Communist Party in Germany. They then went on to put Communists, Socialists, Union Leader, Intellectuals and other liberal thinkers in concentration camps. Namely Dacha Concentration Camp.
Fact: Nazi Germany invaded Russia in 1941 during WW2.
Fact: The Nazi movement in America at that time was closely tied to t he german movement. There is no evidence that the German American Bund was full of liberal thinkers or any liberal in government.
Fact : It was FDR who declared war on fascism. Conservatives tended to be isolationist.
These are facts that all students of history should be taught
As serious students it will be clear to see that the nazi party has nothing in common with the democratic party of today. Anyone who claims they do know nothing about ww2 history .
Do some research on D'Souza. Research his "credentials". And his criminal history. Guess Who pardoned D'souza?
That trump recommends his books and "documentaries" is enough for some people to stay away.
But dsouza and his compatriots are trying to rewrite history. It is so important to get the word out that his theories are crackpot. Forget the doubletalk and regurgitating of the same old tired slogans from history deniers. Lets make history about facts again. Not about comfortable narratives.
What is the conservative saying?
Facts don't care about your feelings. Except when your feelings care too much about the facts, it seems.
From Wikipedia
The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left
In July 2017, D'Souza published The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left. In the book, D'Souza asserts that the 2016 Democratic Party platform was similar to the platform of the Third Reich. The statement received media attention in 2018 when repeated by Donald Trump Jr.. PolitiFact gave the claim its "Pants-on-Fire" rating, noting that "only a small number of elements of the two platforms are clearly similar, and those are so uncontroversial that they appear in the Republican platform as well."[54] Historians refuted the assertion, with University of Maryland historian and Barack Obama critic Jeffrey Herf saying, "There is not the slightest, tiny sliver in which this could be even somewhat accurate."[54] In another review of the book, historian Nicole Hemmer, then of the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs, wrote: "For a book about secret Nazis, The Big Lie is surprisingly dull ... The Big Lie thus adds little to the no-you're-the-fascist genre on the right".[55] New York Times columnist Ross Douthat criticized the book, saying it was a "plea-for-attention" by D'Souza, and that the author had "become a hack". Douthat further stated, "Because D'Souza has become a professional deceiver, what he adds are extraordinary elisions, sweeping calumnies and laughable leaps."[56]
In an article for the American Conservative, historian and philosopher Paul Gottfried, who has written extensively on the subject of fascism, harshly criticized a PragerU video hosted by Dinesh D'Souza which maintained that fascism was a leftist ideology. D'Souza maintained that Italian philosopher Giovanni Gentile, who influenced Italian fascism, was a leftist, to which Gottfried noted that this contradicted the research by "almost all scholars of Gentile's work, from across the political spectrum, who view him, as I do in my study of fascism, as the most distinguished intellectual of the revolutionary right."[57]
