Amateur hour year.
So, we're saying that a lifetime political operative just "slipped up" and said something grotesquely anti-semitic during a white house press conference. This wasn't just some off the cuff bad thing to say, this was something that every person in politics is trained from day one will be a career ender. And "ooops, look what slipped out of Spicy accidentally there."
C'mon.
Let's take a look at how today's events are playing in the Stormfront/Breitbart axis of the alt-right, where what appeared to be unshakable loyalty to Trump was disintegrating under the "attack Syria for Israel" interpretation. Oh, hey...they think Spicy was sending them a message, and they're amused that stupid liberals are buying the forced apology as genuine. And their faith in Trump is restored. One little missile salvo with no followup just to throw some crumbs to the fools and we're right back on point with the mission.
So, we're saying that a lifetime political operative just "slipped up" and said something grotesquely anti-semitic during a white house press conference. This wasn't just some off the cuff bad thing to say, this was something that every person in politics is trained from day one will be a career ender. And "ooops, look what slipped out of Spicy accidentally there."
C'mon.
Let's take a look at how today's events are playing in the Stormfront/Breitbart axis of the alt-right, where what appeared to be unshakable loyalty to Trump was disintegrating under the "attack Syria for Israel" interpretation. Oh, hey...they think Spicy was sending them a message, and they're amused that stupid liberals are buying the forced apology as genuine. And their faith in Trump is restored. One little missile salvo with no followup just to throw some crumbs to the fools and we're right back on point with the mission.
Seems anti-Semitic but ok
Spicer said "you had someone who was despicable as Hitler who didn't even sink to using chemical weapons." This is certainly a very insensitive and inflammatory remark. Now there are people calling for him to be fired for engaging in Holocaust denial.
No. With all due respect to the Jewish victims (which deserve every bit of our respect) what about the homosexuals, gypsies, other ethnic minorities that weren't Jewish, and those with 'inconvenient' political opinions (AKA daring to speak up against Hitler). Of course the Jewish victims shouldn't be forgotten, but let's extend that to all the other victims. Why not?
Spicer should lose his job because it's a stark example of how incompetent he is. A press secretary should not be acting so amateurishly. It's very doubtful that he denies elements of the Holocaust, although it's possible he would downplay elements of it, or just be historically ignorant. In this case his amateurishness simply makes him look like a buffoon, but it's entirely possible that in other circumstances it could have real adverse consequences for the US, e.g. if he accidentally says something that precipitates conflict.
Most of the time, when people make a point of listing the other victims of the Nazi regime, it's to also imply that the Jews never really had it that bad and Hitler was awful to everyone.
Which, while technically true, ignores that many of the demographics Hitler was awful to all had a secondary purpose of perfecting the Final Solution, an "honour" reserved for Jewish people. They were sub-human and not desired in the perfect state model the Reich had envisioned, but ultimately were all serving a purpose towards wiping out the greater Jewish threat.
So he totally skipped all science classes? Or don't American schools in the places where he lived as a student teach basic chemistry?I think he may have genuinely not been aware that the systematic murder of Jews involved the use of chemical weapons.
Hitler also said the Russians were subhuman, among tons of others. Jews were NOT the only minority the nazis were trying to wipe out. If antisemites use this to promote jew hatred that can't be helped, but that doesn't make it wrong. If David Duke says the grass is green and the sky is blue, he would still be correct.
So he totally skipped all science classes? Or don't American schools in the places where he lived as a student teach basic chemistry?
its anti-semitic to mention the other 'sub-humans' murdered by the Nazis?
lets look at the title of that organization again:
The Anne Frank Center on Mutual Respect
Mutual respect means ignoring Hitler's non-Jewish victims?
They don't teach about the Holocaust in chemistry classes. And he knows Jews were gassed but just didn't think of that as use of chemical weapons cause he's stupid. It obviously counts, but he was thinking about it in the context of battlefields and was probably focusing on the delivery method as being the criterion for chemical "weapon." Like rockets and bombs with chemicals are chemical weapons to him.So he totally skipped all science classes? Or don't American schools in the places where he lived as a student teach basic chemistry?
Nobody is saying to ignore Hitler's other victims.
It is utterly ridiculous to say that an organization obviously created to advocate for Jewish issues is "ignoring non-Jewish victims of the Holocaust". And furthermore, a pretty large majority of those gassed by the Nazis were Jews.
What people are saying is that it makes sense that a Jew-centric organization would refer to the Jews. Specifically taking issue with that is often done by anti-semites.
And you too... But I thought anti-semites denied the holocaust, now the term includes people who mention Hitler's other victims? By your logic, non-Jews shouldn't refer to Jews or the holocaust because they're non-Jews.
They don't teach about the Holocaust in chemistry classes. And he knows Jews were gassed but just didn't think of that as use of chemical weapons cause he's stupid. It obviously counts, but he was thinking about it in the context of battlefields and was probably focusing on the delivery method as being the criterion for chemical "weapon." Like rockets and bombs with chemicals are chemical weapons to him.
What people are saying is that it makes sense that a Jew-centric organization would refer to the Jews.