Originally posted by: Dari
Whether he's 1/2, 1/4, or 1/100, the man still has Jewish blood running through him. Add to that his paranoia against Jews and you can see that he was truly demented, but still a great orator. And determining Hitler's true beliefs from those laden by his propaganda machine is damn-near impossible to distinguish. By the way, what conclusion do you really think the SA was going to return to Hitler? Do you honestly believe that they would've come to a conclusion remote to calling him Jewish?
On another note, cultural representation of a group is different from an ethnic representation, with the former being native and the latter being universal. A person may not be considered "Jewish" in a Jewish culture according to traditions, but an anthropologist may considered him/her Jewish based on ancestry. It's idiological for anyone mix one with the other.
As for minorities in Bush's cabinet, the man chooses whomever he pleases. Balance in the overall government comes from the other branches (as was put so eloquently by Eaglekeeper). And, yes, most African-Americans have this fixation on some type of reparations because of slavery. That, and the myriad excuses for their continuing poverty, although some are very legit. Fact is, responsibility and accountability are the basis for getting out of the dirt, not hand-outs.
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No, you were factually wrong. And as I pointed out it all of the learned historians who have examined the issue - and those who served in the 3rd Reich - do not, in fact, believe that Hitler was Jewish. They do not think that the unknown grandfather was the alleged son of the Jewish employer and Hitler satisfied himself that he was not Jewish following his private investigation into the matter by the SA.
So no, he was not Jewish. Not a quarter, not a hundredth, etc.
Which makes your earlier statement a*sinine. My problem is that people - such as yourself - walk around and make things up without any consideration of whether they are truthful or factual or not. Then, with the blaring confidence of the idiot, you pass them off as real facts when they are little more than baseless conjecture or your beliefs about what the reality should be rather than what it really is.
Want an example? Look at when you said "And determining Hitler's true beliefs from those laden by his propaganda machine is damn-near impossible to distinguish." How do you know that? What leads you to believe that? Why such confidence in a statement like that?
"By the way, what conclusion do you really think the SA was going to return to Hitler? Do you honestly believe that they would've come to a conclusion remote to calling him Jewish?"
The honest one. This inquiry was in the early 30's and prior to Hitler imposing himself as a dictator - it was when he was gaining power but also weakened, having been thrown in prison for the failed putsch and having watched his party crumble. It wasn't just the SA but his top advisor and personal friend who he dispatched and he was not yet a man you feared to displease. Hitler knew that the rumor would dog him and wanted to know whether it was true or not regardless of what he would always claim - that he was a pure Aryan.
If you are really interested in Hitler you need only read Speer's memoirs and anything by Trevor-Roper. But don't advance mere ignorant conjecture as confirmed fact.
My point behind all of this is that we need to remain faithful to the truth regardless of how upsetting it may be. I am terribly afraid that America has gone down the bad road of enjoying sweet lies rather than harsh truths and the way that people rewrite history or invent baseless facts just scares the sh*t out of me.
The truth is that George W Bush is a fortunate son of a powerful family who grew up in great wealth. He went to Yale, he went to Harvard, he was incredibly "lucky" to have a spot in the Air National Guard, etc. Bush is not a rancher, not a farmer, and not a common man who understands the plights of the farmers. He is an economic opportunist who will reward wealth with more wealth.
Those are the facts. I know it displeases a lot of people but it is all true. And the way that he could make so many people believe such outrageous lies scares the h*ll out of me.