#who believe parents deserve respect whether or not they've earned it

[julesnichols]

It's so funny to me that my dad thinks that I'm this super spiteful, petty, vindictive person and yet when the perfect opportunity comes up to give him a taste of what I've had to go through because of him I choose not to

[rosiewitchescottage]

I've listened to Douglas Murray a lot.

And whilst he isn't himself religious, he has a great deal of respect for the notions of Repentance and Forgiveness.

Had I not already heard him say that, then I too might have been shocked by his Hamas/Nazi comparison.

But I have heard him, so I'm not shocked.

Notice that he says that Germany 'mucked it up twice' in the 20th Century. (Like me he's a Brit, and we sometimes will understate something to emphasize how serious it is.)

Why's he saying that Germany can be proud of itself?

It KNOWS how badly it 'mucked up'.

Germans know what a catastrophe WW1 was.

Germany itself suffered a great deal under Hitler. Unless you were a card carrying loyal Nazi, you had to watch your step every minute.

A sweet German lady who lived across the road from my parents, told me how she worked as a secretary in a school that was taken over by Nazi staff taught me a great deal. She talked about The Gestapo coming in, and how all those years later, the sight of a leather coat still gave her the shivers.

Germans are shocked and appalled by what Hitler did in his Death Camps. And they've worked on self improvement ever since.

I call that something to be proud of, personally.

They've shown remorse, they've demonstrated a rejection of what Hitler stood for. Doesn't that earn them the right to move forward free from taint?

Have Hamas shown a scrap of remorse? Either for their treatment and usage of The Palestinian People or for their Oct 7th Massacre of Jews?

Video Footage shows them celebrating gleefully as they murdered, destroyed, tortured and raped.

There's a recording of a phone call one Hamas member makes home, triumphantly telling his family how many Jews he's killed, their blood still on his hands.

Douglas Murray has argued, that this is worse than The Nazis, because even though they thought that they were right to be murdering so many Jews, Roma and all the others they considered deserving of death, they had a matter of fact rather than 'enjoying' approach.

We have no reason to believe that they celebrated joyfully in this. To them, it was a job to be done.

Now. I'm not in agreement with Douglas Murray on this. If acts of unfathomable evil are Just a Job, then what sort of human being are you? 😳😳😳😳

But do I think he's minimising what they did? No, I don't.

Here's an article where he's critical of how Hannah Arendt talked about 'The Banality of Evil'. He says we must always look out for The Profundity of Evil'.

He talks about Hamas and Oct 7th, but he also discusses Otto Adolf Eichmann, one of the main organisers of The Holocaust.

He criticises Arendt for being taken in by Eichmann's performance of false remorse at his trial.

Documents found later, revealed that Eichmann had been writing about his wartime 'achievements', with pride.

So, no. He's not 'downplaying' The Nazis in the least. He makes their 'Profundity of Evil' very plain.

But he's expressing the opinion that whilst its bad enough to be proud of evil.

There's something extra foul about celebrating whilst still covered in blood, with the dead, dying and mutilated still around you.

And whilst The Nation of Germany has shown deep remorse for what Hitler, Eichmann and the rest did. So should be forgiven and encouraged in moving forward.

Hamas has absolutely no remorse, nor even the smallest mercy for the people it is happy to use as 'martyrs', whether they like it or not.

And as for him not calling out 'white people' doing things.

That just shows how little of his work you've read or listened to.

And he does criticise conservative people when he thinks it needs doing. He's as critical of Mr Trump as he is of Mrs Harris.

Reminder that Douglas Murray is a fucking hypocrite...

...and doesn't really care about fighting antisemitism. When he's trying to downplay the Nazis... well, it's interesting that when it's white people doing antisemitism or homophobia or other horrible things Douglas Murray isn't so quick to criticise. (https://thelead.uk/douglas-murray-co-are-no-allies-jews)