It has been a good few weeks in the United States for antisemites and those who support Nazism, a sentence I never thought I would say. There are a lot of things that I love about Hitler, a lot of things not trying to be shocking.
I like Hitler. I do not. The Holocaust is not what happened. Let's look at the facts of that. And Hitler has a lot of redeeming qualities. Kanye west, also known as Yay, with his 18 million Instagram followers, and 49 millSpotifytify listeners, spreading antisemitic and Holocaust-denying filth to audiences bigger than the entire worldwide Jewish population, which is about 15 million.
Numbers reduced significantly, of course, because of the Holocaust, when Adolf Hitler and Nazis slaughtered 6 million Jews. He is currently being mainstreamed by former President Donald Trump, who dined with him, and another heinous Holocaust denier, an antisemite named Nick Fuentes, who also praised Hitler at a white supremacist conference earlier this year.
Now they're going on about Russia and Vladimir Putin is Hitler. They say that's not a good thing, and I shouldn't have said that. The GOP response to this debacle has been a lot of play-acting, sadly.
Congressman Margaret Taylor Green, for instance, acted as if she did not know who Fuentes was. He sounds like a very immature young man saying hateful things about people. I don't know why Kanye West would align himself with that.
Comments that might make more sense, Congresswoman Taylor Green, if you had not stood on stage with Fuentes at that very same white supremacist conference earlier this year. She, of course, remains a member in good standing of the House Republican Conference, whose leader, Kevin McCarthy, is now refusing to make even the most tepid criticism of Donald Trump for dining with these Holocaust deniers.
I don't think anybody should be spending any time with Nick fluents. He has no place in this Republican Party. I think President Trump came out four times and condemned him and didn't know who he was.
Well, he just didn't know who he was. He didn't condemn his ideology. Well, I condemn his ideology. It has no place in society as the president didn't know who he was. You know what he knew who? Kanye west.
And he didn't know who the index is. Donald Trump has never condemned Nick Fonte or Kanye West. He hasn't done it once. Much less the four times Kevin McCarthy claimed I confess I'm finding all these contortions to defend Nazism and the tolerance of Nazism rather difficult to stomach.
This is my great uncle David Edwin Palmatier, a warrant officer, and tail gunner with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He was shot down and killed by the German Luftwaffe on June 22, 1943. He was only 22.
He was killed along with around 8000 service members from Canada and the United States and the UK and Australia and elsewhere. The greatest generation that we so proudly herald. Except, of course, at moments like these when politicians and others besmirch their memories by refusing to condemn the evil and the tolerance of that evil that they save their lives to stop.
After all, what are we talking about tolerating here? Antisemitism and Holocaust denial. Pure evil. The evil off-camera in this photo. See the little kid there on the left side showing the other kids the flowers?
See that kid? These are Hungarian Jews in 1944, and unbeknownst to them, they were waiting to be killed. They were about 100 to 200 meters away from gas chambers. These are images from inside those concentration camps.
We're Jews. After years of being demonized by Nazis whose lives were first tolerated and then subsumed by politicians and the public. Jews were ghettoized and then rounded up and slaughtered along with millions of Roma gays Catholics and others.
This is what my Uncle Edwin and hundreds of thousands of Americans gave their lives to stop. This and the tolerance of the evil ideology behind it is what, apparently too many politicians in the United States are unable to muster the courage to condemn in unequivocal ways.
Whom are you afraid of, Alienating?