(12-23-2020 11:55 AM)Rice93 Wrote:  

(12-23-2020 11:39 AM)MerseyOwl Wrote:  

(12-23-2020 09:47 AM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  

(12-23-2020 09:39 AM)MerseyOwl Wrote:  

(12-23-2020 09:21 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  BTW, still no response to my questions. I wonder what they have to hide?.

To paraphrase Lieutenant Dan, "OO, the day they respond to your questions is the day I'm an astronaut."

(Maybe they responded to your questions, but their answers were too nuanced for our thick conservative brains to comprehend?)

The victimhood mentality is strong.

A bit ironic to post this right after another poster basically called any Democrat posting on this board a Nazi.

I didn't realize the suggestion the probability that our left-leaning peers will actually respond to a question approaches the probability of me becoming an astronaut was actually me playing the victim card.

Are you maybe still bu##hurt that I characterized your calling Robert E Lee a traitor as "simplistic, convenient, or just plain lazy"?

When one uses the argument that their position is nuanced (as is often indicated in this forum), but doesn't offer any detail to explain that strikes me a "simplistic, convenient, or just plain lazy."

I didn't hear anyone specifically call the Democrats posting on this board Nazis. It was, how you say, more nuanced than that. If someone finds the use of Nazi imagery to dehumanize their opponents acceptable then what else do you find acceptable? And specifically what other Nazi propaganda imagery, tools, and techniques do you find acceptable?

I don't think that we agreed that the political cartoon in question used Nazi imagery. There was some discussion as to whether rats in general = Nazi imagery. I wasn't under the impression that anybody was defending that position. In fact... OO was very clear that he wasn't calling this Nazi imagery.

Are you saying that this cartoon was "unconscionable" because it used Nazi imagery? If so... I think you are the only one on this forum to take this position.

Not to speak for Mersey - he seems perfectly able to do that for himself...

...but people as rats is not "Nazi" propaganda. They did not invent it. It is universal propaganda that the Nazis, and this cartoonist, and many others, have used.

Rats have been a problem since cities were invented. I bet the Assyrians and Midianites used 'rat' as a derogatory term. Hardly came from Goebbels' desk.