Thought For The Day
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Lefties annihilate the unborn and euthanize the elderly, the depressed and the poor. They cancel authors who dare write books that contradict their narrative, and they let violent criminals out of prisons, replacing them with the disobedient, the unindoctrinated, the unvaccinated and the patriots.
What’s appalling is that this creature is not some Antifa halfwit, she’s a law school instructor.
https://theconversation.com/profiles/daniela-nadj-576865
Nazi means “National Socialist”. I’m just a housewife who does not speak German, and I know that. What is wrong with these people?
Can anyone point me to an even half-decent scholarly defense of the Nazi-fascist-rightwing connection, which even most on the right concede to? This is not a rhetorical question. I’ve looked into it before and all I came away with was assertions that invariably fail to impress more than the above no true Scotsman fallacy, and which tend to boil down to non sequiturs like “ackchyually… Nazi’s were pro-family” or “ackchyually… Nazi’s were nationalistic”. I mean, prima facie, everything about the National Socialist Party and its activities appears to perfectly align with the socialist progressivism of the era. And apart from how they sometimes sold their ideas to the less educated, their motives and goals are much more difficult to explain away as distinctly reactionary. So, what compelling evidence exists that got us to the point where the burden of proof is always on the person claiming that Naziism and fascism actually have more in common with leftism? Seems like just another result of the left’s absolute dominance over education and media to me.
Can anyone point me to an even half-decent scholarly defense of the Nazi-fascist-rightwing connection,
Arguments over taxonomies such as this are not illuminating. You get street-level Democrats talking you realize that many of them are reduced to tossing off epithets, and ‘fascist’ is one.
She also doesn’t have the out to complain she wasn’t referring to Communist governments because we live at a time when both free speech and vulnerable people are under siege. They’re not under siege from the starboard.
The narrative of “only the right bans books” is due to a publishing gimmick.
You will walk into a bookstore and see a sign saying “buy banned books!” You will then be presented with a pile of books that you can buy in any bookstore across the country, some (like the Harry Potter series) being bestsellers. They are only “banned” on technicalities (ex. one school library decided to purchase a different book rather than the “banned” one.)
Meanwhile, try to buy Dr. Seuss’s “And to Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street” (a childhood favorite of mine.) It will never be reprinted, absent a drastic shift in publisher rights. Secondary sales have been banned from many stores, including ebay. And yet the same leftists who complain about all the books “banned” by the right will insist that this isn’t really “banning” as it it still possible to buy the books used in a handful of places (for more than they should cost, considering the supply.)
That’s of course without getting into the really spicy books which can’t be found anywhere.
There are copies of the Dr. Suess book at ABE books. It looks like the prices are $6-14.
https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/dr-seuss-enterprises-susan-brandt-ceo-1235165170/
This is the creature responsible for working to suppress the work in question. Dr. Suess Enterprises is now owned by a private foundation. I’m wagering this is the foundation in question.
https://drseussfoundation.org/board/
Note, Dr. Suess Enterprises employs fewer than 10 people.
Stalin institutionalised disabled people. They were forgotten. Stalin marginalised and excluded anyone who he could not flog for his workforce. No leftists don’t build concentration camps- they build and run Gulags. I guess she thinks that’s a step up 😂
Exactly, DJH! Nazism is socialism plus critical race theory.
Hey Democrats! The Third Reich called, they want their political agenda back!!
I think the association with “rightism” has three sources:
1. Nazi opposition to Communists, who were clearly “people of the left”, which meant (to little minds) that their fierce opponents had to be “people of the right”. That Nazis and Communists were rivals and not opponents was clear to many critics of the era.
2. Nazis posed as German patriots during a time when patriotism was discredited in the eyes of many young Europeans, because the “cool” thinkers were into “internationalism” (Communism). Since Communism was on the left, its opponents, etc.
3. The old Prussian military-industrial aristocracy wanted Germany back on top and cut a deal to provide “cover” to Hitler and his followers in return for support for rearmament, thinking they could control things (especially after the SA were trashed), provided he left them in control of their money. However, the two sides mixed poorly and the aristocrats never got control and had to resort to assassination.
Let me go to bat for Daniela. I don’t know the age of the individual, but my sons have kept me up with their schooling content. We know what the pop culture/media narratives have been saying about history for some time. When I looked at my sons’ World History textbook in high school (the older 2 before we home schooled), it’s not hard to see the problem. Lenin, Marx and Mao were all given 2 page focuses. In all three cases the appraisals were overwhelmingly positive. In Mao’s case, there was a small sidebar in the lower righthand corner of the 2nd page stating that many Chinese died during the revolution. But otherwise, a great leader. Stalin was barely mentioned, mostly as a bogeyman figure who was singlehandedly responsible for the worst stories of the Soviet Union. But that’s all he got. My sons said in college that it was amazing how many students had never heard of the man. Gorbachev did well in the book. He pretty much ended things by himself – Reagan getting his only mention in the textbook as the president Gorbachev met with a couple times (Pope John Paul II and Thatcher getting no mention, so at least he got something). In dealing with the rise of communism and communist thought, very few specifics were given about the bad. It was mostly a movement that arose to address the injustices, the bigotry, the corruption and the oppression that had swept Europe and much of the world in light of Industrialization and the abuses of capitalist systems. For those, there were quite a few specifics and examples given. So given the political talk, media and cultural narratives, and what they learn in school (and that certainly includes college) I can get why that was posted. It might seem stupid to us, but that’s because we caught the last years before the shift.
Let me go to bat for Daniela.
Why?
I don’t know the age of the individual,
She was born in 1978. The surname suggests her paternal-side relatives are from that segment of the Hapsburg Kingdom of Hungary that was allocated to Yugoslavia after the 1st World War.
Wherever her father’s family was from (or she was born), she’s lived in the UK since 1996 if not earlier. (My guess would be earlier).
Art, why? Because we need to realize this is what people of a certain age have been taught from the top down, side to side. Stalin? Barely heard of the guy. Lenin and Marx? Quite the heroes. Just as I would have written about how good the Founding Fathers were because it’s what my society taught me, so she is merely echoing what she has been taught. The implications of this speak for themselves.
Art, why? Because we need to realize this is what people of a certain age have been taught from the top down, side to side. Stalin? Barely heard of the guy. Lenin and Marx? Quite the heroes. Just as I would have written about how good the Founding Fathers were because it’s what my society taught me, so she is merely echoing what she has been taught. The implications of this speak for themselves.
She’s an academician who finished high school before three of your children were born. I haven’t a clue why you think the textbooks she had replicated the ones dumped on your sons or why it would be an excuse. I’m of an age to have had very little contemporary history instruction, because the school year ran out before you got to the postwar period and the 20th century took up only a fragment of the European history I studied formally. The suburban kids taking the academic course in my era were broadly aware of the abuses of totalitarianism, even though we spent little time on it. And what’s the excuse of your sons’ teachers? Your sons are in high school in 2016, no? The median age of a working adult in 2016 was about 42 years, so your sons’ teachers one might expect were born in 1974. They’d have been in high school history classes as the Berlin wall was falling. And you instruct your sons, no? Well, my parents instructed me as well. Was this woman of Balkan extraction free from parental instruction?
No need to play the White Knight for this dame. She’s just bad.
Here’s Daniela on 22 March 2022:
“I love living in London and Britain has been amazing to me in many ways. It’s my home. But boy, England, you have a big,big problem with racism, xenophobia and misogyny combined with a disdain for intellectuals. You need to have an open national debate about it asap.”
She’s a professional complainer.
Stalin hated Hitler’s competition to rule the world.
Art, not trying to come to her rescue. Trying to put it in perspective. I was in high school in the early 80s, and we were already being told to rethink all that ‘evil communist’ template, while increasingly being told we must focus more and more on the ‘sins of the West.’ I was entering high school right after she was born, and that was happening then. Sure, there was still the narrative that, despite all the evils, the West was a net boon for the world. But by the late 90s and early 00s, when my boys were entering school (and she would have been coming out of college), that had faded away. I have no idea what it was like in England. But here? Why wouldn’t someone under the age of about 50 not see it that way? It’s what they’ve been taught.
Trying to put it in perspective.
Coke bottle glasses aren’t helping you.
Why wouldn’t someone under the age of about 50 not see it that way? It’s what they’ve been taught.
One of my high school history teachers was a tedious feminist who had a dissertation she was working on fitfully. She later landed on the faculty of a research university in New England. Another was on one of the local Democratic committees. I didn’t get the mess you’re telling me you got from your history teachers. I got stuck in the classroom of a Castro admirer in college. By the end of the semester, most of the class was just done with him. People aren’t automatons.
As for this woman, how do you get through a British grammar school program and then traipse through three different universities compiling frou frou law degrees and do no syntopical reading on European history?
Look what she said above. Have you ever encountered ‘misogyny’ in meatspace? When was the last time you heard a racial epithet out of the mouth of a person with your own ears? Any time in the last 40 years? She only gets from here to there because her conception of the world she lives in every day is imaginary (or she maintains an absurd princess-and-the-pea understanding of ‘racism’ and ‘misogyny’). That may be a consequence of socialization. It isn’t a consequence of learning.
Art, my point is simply that this is the societal framework that they are learning. One or two of your teachers was a feminist? By the time I came along a generation later, it would be easier for me to think of the high school teachers I had that weren’t feminists. Such is how things evolved, and it didn’t stop with my generation, as my sons’ experiences show. I’m merely saying she echoes the official curriculum of our schools, the official narrative of our media, the official canvas upon which our modern pop culture conveys its stories, so we shouldn’t be shocked that she wrote the above any more than we would be shocked to hear someone in 1942 say ‘Remember Pearl Harbor.”
By the time I came along a generation later,
I’m not 85 years old. That tedious history teacher was born in 1945 and retired two years ago.
“I’m not 85 years old. That tedious history teacher was born in 1945 and retired two years ago.”
By the time I hit high school, almost all of my teachers, save for a couple of the oldest, were about that age or younger. Several were clearly born in the late 40s or even 50s. And we could definitely tell a difference between the oldest teachers and the younger ones.
And we could definitely tell a difference between the oldest teachers and the younger ones.
I couldn’t.
“I couldn’t.”
Well, we could. With few exceptions the ideals and perspectives of the younger teachers were far more to the post-Christian and to the left. It was less distinct in college, because most were those things. But in school? It was easy to see and trace on almost generational levels.