While it is true that Germany got a ton of "ex" Nazis in the 80s, it is also true that judging how polite dinner conversation is is bourgeois as fuck. What would a person write about crust punks who have bad table manners? I'd rather go to my next food kitchen and eat with Punks than with grandparents who aren't openly and viciously against Nazis - especially if they were once in the Waffen SS.
Okay, that said I don't know his works, so they might be good, but still strange phrasing.
If I had been influential in designing the justice mechanisms in post WW II Europe - I would have tried my damnedest to have as many mass executions of the Waffen SS as possible.
If I had been successful - I know I would be responsible for some "ordinary" Nazis or even ordinary soldiers to die. In a war of that size - chaos will follow and you can never be certain of a multitude of details. But I would have gone ahead with my plan anyway. I'd always feel guilty about the execution of the others. But the only thing to do with evil on that scale is to destroy it.
I was so mad at him after I saw that tweet that I googled him and I sent him an hostile email to his Yale addy. I titled it something like "You are vile." It had just a few lines of text. I know he might have never seen it. He might have undergraduate assistant deal with his email inbox until things died down. But you never know. Maybe he did see the title and instead of deleting it he opened it and read it.
Lol, the header of the page is the cover of his book "How Fascism Works - The Politics of US vs Them". Kinda bad take by someone who wrote such a book.
While it is true that Germany got a ton of "ex" Nazis in the 80s, it is also true that judging how polite dinner conversation is is bourgeois as fuck. What would a person write about crust punks who have bad table manners? I'd rather go to my next food kitchen and eat with Punks than with grandparents who aren't openly and viciously against Nazis - especially if they were once in the Waffen SS.
Okay, that said I don't know his works, so they might be good, but still strange phrasing.
If I had been influential in designing the justice mechanisms in post WW II Europe - I would have tried my damnedest to have as many mass executions of the Waffen SS as possible.
If I had been successful - I know I would be responsible for some "ordinary" Nazis or even ordinary soldiers to die. In a war of that size - chaos will follow and you can never be certain of a multitude of details. But I would have gone ahead with my plan anyway. I'd always feel guilty about the execution of the others. But the only thing to do with evil on that scale is to destroy it.
I was so mad at him after I saw that tweet that I googled him and I sent him an hostile email to his Yale addy. I titled it something like "You are vile." It had just a few lines of text. I know he might have never seen it. He might have undergraduate assistant deal with his email inbox until things died down. But you never know. Maybe he did see the title and instead of deleting it he opened it and read it.
He has no excuse.