QUOTE(Wikifan @ Thu 23rd February 2012, 11:31pm)
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You appear to have leapt to a conclusion based not on historical knowledge but on your gut reactions to antisemitic rhetoric. In the '30s, Wall Street financiers liked Hitler not because of their opinions one way or another about his demagoguery, but because the German economy began to show signs of revival after he rose to power. Wall Street was also financing Japanese empire-building during this time period, over the objections of the U.S. government.
so wall street financiers=jews? LF and other noi trolls are notorious for their rabid antisemitism and fascination with jewish conspiracies. when anyone engages in that kind of verbal diarrhea they lose all credibility.
Not all of them were Jews, of course, but some were. The fundamentally antisemitic premise adopted by the NOI, apparently, is that Jews controlled all of international banking in the 1930s and were able to use that control for their own sinister purposes. We can reject that premise without denying, as I think you did, that some American Jews were involved in financing Nazi Germany. The same goes for Japan, although naturally most people wouldn't find Jewish involvement with that curious, because the Japanese weren't behind the genocide of millions of Jews.
I'm not saying that the NOI has any credibility, but I am saying that there was a kernel of truth to the sentence you bolded. That sentence obviously twisted the truth for its own antisemitic ends.
QUOTE(Emperor @ Thu 23rd February 2012, 11:01pm)
QUOTE(Ego Trippin' (Part Two) @ Thu 23rd February 2012, 10:20pm)
These are the kinds of things you learn in college. Speaking of which, if memory serves, you're about 17, right? How's your college application process going?
Oh the "my education is bigger than your education" argument. Always persuasive.
You're right; my first three sentences stood on their own, and that fourth was unnecessarily nasty. My shitty mood brought out my mean streak. I apologize for the dig, Wikifan.
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