Essentially he did the following:

  • Blamed the house speaker

  • Took no responsibility

  • Some fluff about being disappointed and embarrassed

  • Blamed Russian propaganda

Seriously, he didn't even skip a beat before launching into a lecture about Russian propaganda. It was all in the same breath, and clearly pre-meditated.

The thing is, we know this motherfucker was a Nazi who fought in the fucking SS. We know what the SS was. We know who the Nazis were. This is not Russian propaganda. This is just a fucking FACT.

I worry that this is a broader symptom of the re-writing of history to "both sides" World War 2: the notion that the Nazis and the Soviets were equally evil because "muh totalitarianism". We all know here that that is unequivocally untrue, and furthermore some Jewish scholars (correctly) argue that this is a form of genocide denial: by saying that the USSR was equally evil to the Nazis downplays the utter depravity and evil of the intentional extermination of a race of people.

To find out who the real MVP was in WW2 all you have to do is watch this video.

Furthermore, the notion that the Holodomor was an intentional genocide is a load-bearing idea to the double-genocide theory, as they need some ammunition to back up their absolutely baseless claim.

This whole thing just seems (for lack of a better term) Orwellian. All this cheerleading about Ukraine and the intentionally disingenuous media coverage of the whole affair, the whitewashing of literal fucking nazis and the fact that the overwhelming majority of people are just uncritically lapping it up is deeply troubling to me.

I feel like we are watching history being re-written in real time ohnoes

  • StalinForTime [comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    Trudeau's response is a distillation and perfect example of the type of response to always expect from these explicitly, ideologically committed, upper-class liberals (i.e. not just, like, your lib mum who doesn't know better) with some understanding of power.

    They will never concede. They will never admit they were wrong. Always backtrack. Move the goalposts. Change meaning, assumptions ad hoc. Never trust these people. Don't waste your time trying to radicalize upper class people who seem even somewhat to be genuinely, explicitly, self-consciously liberal.