An actress who cynically took the stage name "Goldberg" has a bad take on the holocaust?!
I still remember finding out about that and having my mind blown that A) Goldberg wasn't her actual last name, B) that it was taken cynically so she'd fare better in Hollywood, and fucking C) that the plan apparently worked?? Also Whoopi is a taken stage name too that she adopted because she used to rip ass constantly while on stage doing stand up which is insane in its own right
Also Whoopi is a taken stage name too that she adopted because she used to rip ass constantly while on stage doing stand up which is insane in its own right
omg :data-laughing: lmfao
Holy hell...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whoopi_Goldberg#Early_life
She has stated that her stage forename ("Whoopi") was taken from a whoopee cushion: "When you're performing on stage, you never really have time to go into the bathroom and close the door. So if you get a little gassy, you've got to let it go. So people used to say to me, 'You're like a whoopee cushion.' And that's where the name came from."[15]
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About her stage surname, she claimed in 2011, "My mother did not name me Whoopi, but Goldberg is my name—it's part of my family, part of my heritage, just like being black", and "I just know I am Jewish. I practice nothing. I don't go to temple, but I do remember the holidays."[16] She has stated that "people would say 'Come on, are you Jewish?' And I always say 'Would you ask me that if I was white? I bet not.'"[16] One account recalls that her mother, Emma Johnson, thought the family's original surname was "not Jewish enough" for her daughter to become a star.[16] Researcher Henry Louis Gates Jr. found that all of Goldberg's traceable ancestors were African Americans, that she had no known German or Jewish ancestry, and that none of her ancestors were named Goldberg.[12] Results of a DNA test, revealed in the 2006 PBS documentary African American Lives, traced part of her ancestry to the Papel and Bayote people of modern-day Guinea-Bissau. Her admixture test indicates that she is of 92 percent sub-Saharan African origin and of 8 percent European origin.[17]
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Idk how hard it is, after 50 years or whatever of public speaking experience, to not say weird shit about the holocaust
Fucking losers. I could go 60, 70 years without downplaying the holocaust on camera
Millions of dollars per year job: "say whatever you want, EXCEPT for weird holocaust theories" and she couldn't pull it off
All you have to d is not say anything weird about women, jews, and black people. You can just talk about anything else and be fine. I could do this job in my sleep.
I think my favorite thing about libs is this little thing about the Holocaust. Yes, Jews were the majority of those prosecuted by the Nazi party, but the Nazis killed approximately 12 million people within concentration camps with only 6 million of them being Jews, many of them being much smaller Slavic and Roma minorities that have never recovered from the population loss. The wiping out of the German Communist Party completely killed any sense of native communism within Eastern Germany, and made it seem like a foreign ideological imposition from Russia, even as they reaped the material benefits from it. Again, the Jews were an enormous part, but to focus on it at the expense of everything else the Nazis affected and did with the Holocaust is missing the big picture.
It's important to remember that communists were the first they came for. Fascism is at least as anti-communist as it is antisemitic.
National Socialism is the German evolution of Fascist ideology, which is essentially primitive Third Positionism (the ideology which we see growing a lot today.) National Socialism was called what it was so they could pretend that there was some kind of anti establishment movement, when it essentially kept the vast majority of the establishment around and strengthened it.
They wouldn't have come to the conclusions they did about Jews if they weren't already deeply anti-semitic, Or the original brainworms
Liberal consensus has dumbed Nazi atrocities down to just being about the Jews. Maybe it is just easier for liberals to understand a simpler story with fewer protagonists or maybe accepting the totality of Nazi crimes would disturb the liberal view of reactionaries as essentially good and normal people who just happens to hate a few well-defined and clearly demarcated minorities. Maybe accepting that reactionaries are rotten to the core doesn't go too well with their fetish for being civil and submissive to everyone to their right.
Also they probably wouldn't have nearly as strong protests to rounding up and executing communists
IKR? Fuck the Roma and Sinti, according to these chucklefucks
“I got fascism in my anti
communismsocial-democracy again! How does this keep happening!?”If anyone's wondering (link):
Whoopi got called out after Monday January 31’s episode, when discussing Maus. While discussing the shocking decision by a Tennessee school district to ban the graphic novel about the Holocaust, Whoopi made the controversial comment. “The Holocaust isn’t about race,” she said, but co-host Joy Behar corrected her: “Well, they considered Jews a different race.” Whoopi then explained why she had said that the holocaust wasn’t about race. “It’s about man’s inhumanity to man,” she said.
After receiving tons of backlash for the comments, Whoopi issued an apology for her hurtful words. “On today’s show, I said the Holocaust ‘is not about race, but about man’s inhumanity to man.’ I should have said it is about both,” she tweeted on Monday. “I stand corrected. The Jewish people around the world have always had my support and that will never waiver. I’m sorry for the hurt I have caused.
But even if you didn't considerJewish people as a separate race, then many black people and other racial groups were absolutely set to the concentration camps and were generally vilified (e.g. Jesse Owens) along with Jews (and of course, disabled people, leftists, LGBT people, and others). In general, I feel like there's this weird sort of... minimization? of the
HolocaustNazi genocides (Holocaust refers specifically to the genocide of the Jewish people) as strange as that sounds, to make it almost seem like the death toll of the concentration camps under the Nazis was the famous number of 6 million Jewish people, when that number is doubled when you include everybody else who was killed. I'm not sure it's intentional or not but it's something I've noticed.I’m not sure it’s intentional or not but it’s something I’ve noticed.
I don’t think everyone knowingly does it intentionally but I definitely think some people do and some ignorant people unknowingly end up parroting it.
I mean, I’ve definitely seen libs say shit like nazism was bad but communism has killed way more people. I do think there’s been an anti communist effort to minimize the holocaust and swell the perceived evil of communism during McCarthyism/red scare era forward. Especially considering how many nazis we gave jobs to and stuff. “The trains ran on time” “they dressed so snazzy” like the us does a lot to white wash nazis.
I agree. I feel like Naziism in western culture is treated as a kind of deep evil but it's "at the heart of man's soul" or whatever. Like, there's a bunch of people who are like "The Nazis were evil people but deep down, if we don't take care of our darker impulses, we too could slip into those modes of thought. They weren't so different from us" etc which has always felt a bit... apologetic? Like, you could certainly say that and mean it in good faith but to me, it always seems to come with an unspoken statement of "If we, as Westerners, end up doing what the Nazis do, it's not particularly the fault of capitalist propaganda or even really my personal fault, it's because we "accidentally" let the dark part of our souls that is always there and cannot be extinguished take over and oopsie daisy, we killed a few hundred million foreign poor people in a climate catastrophe. Our human nature came out and did it." As if these people are werewolves but rather than turning into wolves upon the full moon, they're frantically dodging a moon that turns them into Nazis or something. It's accepted to be part of us, even if it's evil and parasitic, and so has some level of rehabilitation in our culture, as you say.
Whereas communism is always seen as an external, foreign threat. It's the Borg, the zerg rush, the gray goo, that is lapping at our walls and infects the minds of people and turns them into Stalin-worshipping zombies. It's seen as entirely opposed to human nature. And so it's almost incapable of being rehabilitated or assimilated into current culture (which is why we must change the culture as well as obviously the fundamental political reality that governs us).
Yea, I think there’s sort of a, probably not conscious, kinship for lack of a better word between liberalism and nazism. Since nazism is pretty much rooted at least in part in Jim Crow American law i think people can maybe rationalize or see a bit of ‘themself’ in it. In the way you describe it’s like a darkness that can be given into that seems tangentially related to our culture, bc tbh there’s a lot of overlap even if we don’t like to think there is. Probably an element of why they always side with the fascists when there’s a crisis.
Weird how economic policy wise there ain't no diference between fascism and liberals :thonk:
You've put into words what I've been considering for a while. Western consciousness is much better at sympathizing with Nazis than communists. Fascism can be understood as some dark internal impulse that simply exists everywhere. Like a flick of a light switch and it can happen. It's perfectly understood by both liberals and conservatives that the US government could flip to being fascist with only the tools available to it now. There's some sort of national soul balancing that needs to occur and that's how fascism is defeated, some kind of common mutual belief in how precious America is or something.
Communism though is currently seen as impossible to integrate within America. It's always an external, failing, clawing zombie like threat that was simply concocted out of thin air one day like a virus. The same people who believe American society is a precious seesaw of freedom that could instantly flip to fascism also believe communism is simply impossible. "It'll never happen." is the common refrain. It'll never happen so let's vilify this movement that's impossible to get off the ground. Communists are only external too. The internal communists must be brainwashed high minded egg heads who just don't realize what communism is. How can they? They're Americans, they can't be real communists. That stuff is from Russia or China or whatever and it's from a long time ago. The people trying to revive it must be stupid kids or something.
It's going to be interesting to see how leftist politics morph into an internal threat again in the western mind. I can't even imagine it right now since communism isn't treated seriously in any facet of American society. It's either a failed, collapsed thing from the past or its just the scary word you use to describe your opponents.
It’s going to be interesting to see how leftist politics morph into an internal threat again in the western mind.
Democrats and Republicans pass a bipartisan bill that turns the Proud Boys into the new Freikorps
These liberals are not completely wrong though. Making the US or the rest of the imperial core fascist would be a lot easier than making it communist, all you would have to do would be to turn a few dials a few notches up. In contrast, to build Communism you would have to dismantle the power structures of the US completely and build something new on the ruins.
Yeah, I think libs and chuds often have a very dull gut instinct that is sometimes correct.
It might be partly intentional, but not in a big conspiratorial sense of it being actively suppressed by a shadowy cabal, but more in a self-regulating "I shouldn't bring this up since it would provoke a bunch of other questions which I don't want to answer" sense. In the liberal mind, without any material analysis, the Nazis are a unique evil... except a ton of the stuff they did was also done (perhaps in a lesser form and scale, but still) by the countries which fought them. The persecution of leftists is obviously going to be ignored, since the US and its various client states and countries they couped did a whole ton of that. The genocide of the Romani is going to be ignored by a lot of Europeans, since they'd have to face that their beliefs and rhetoric about Roma people sure don't seem that far off from what a Nazi would say.
There's also another aspect of this, which is with the broader slaughter perpetrated by the Nazis. In the popular consciousness, the Nazis are primarily linked with concentration camps and gas chambers, which ignores all the people who died a simpler death - just shot by the SS and dumped in a ditch, or killed by bombardment. That also has to be ignored, since acknowledging it brings up some broader questions about war - you'd start having to ask questions about how the US bombing the shit out of Korea and Vietnam is perfectly legitimate "war" and not in any way genocidal (I mean, the bombers weren't specifically targeting Korean people... they were just bombing cities in a country which happened to be populated by Koreans), or how having US troops go village to village in Vietnam looking for Vietcong and doing a ton of massacres is different from just having Einsatzgruppen.
So, stuff gets ignored or has attention drawn away from it in popular media and propaganda, and that trickles down to the common person, who's not going to go out and read a book on their own, and so gets a twisted, ahistorical understanding of what happened.
It feels like after the war the liberal-conservative consensus made a strategic retreat and stopped hating the Jews (well, most of them stopped) as to protect their ability to hate and surpress minorities in general. They were happy to let the lesson from the holocaust be that antisemitism is wrong, instead of racism in general being wrong.
https://twitter.com/Brock_McBighuge/status/1488845178618195970
does not look like a bit account
they retweet anti trans stuff right wing memes and screenshot of pronouns in profiles as replies so i doubt it
most of the account is retweets and replies
No I meant was that account a bit, lol, you think I don't know what a bit is? psh c'mon.
That's exactly what a chud cosplaying as SorosFootSoldier would say :amogus:
Oh, the Brock guy is a full-on nazi like most of the idiot masses.
Just Googled Brock's Twitter.
He'd make fine cattle for the gulag.
