Is'nt that a lovely track , Simple Mind's Mandela day , that I posted here earlier .
I recall , during the eighties , hearing that drunken young conservative conference delegates had sung 'Hang Nelson Mandela' .
Presumably because he was once some sort of terrorist .
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So why is it that still we hear so much more about Hitler , Nazi's and extermination of Jews than about surely equally horrendous attrocities committed under Stalin , Mao , and others ?
I can only imagine because , ( a ) : The Nazi's uniquely , at least in modern times , tried to exterminate an entire race , and ,
( b ) because orthodoxical members of the jewish race are a proud people , many of whom have wealth , influence and power , and are determined to keep nazi atrocities against them in the public consciousness , in the hope of that preventing such a thing from happening again - at least to themselves , and ( c )
Because there's just something uniquely fascinating about the nazi's , and that whereas Stalin is perceived as having been just a vile thug , and china under mao is just too distant for most of us to relate to , Hitler and his fellow Nazi Scumbags somehow seem more sinisterly fascinating , and , dare I say 'sexy' : I do'nt mean as in 'erotic' , but more as in allegations against Iraq , prior to the most recent invasion , having been 'sexed up' .
Hitler's ranting speeches now seem almost as ridiculous as Charlie Chaplin's brilliant satirical impersonation , and yet , think Indiana Jones's films :
There is something uniquely fascinating , though not uniquely evil about hitlerian nazism .
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2008-06-23 @ 23:46