The rise of the Fascist reich. Not Left, asshat

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"Holocaust Survivors Recall Exact Day Holocaust Started Right Out Of The Blue." The 12-year Reich: A Social History Of Nazi Germany 1933-2012. Watch us shut them down; The rise of the Fascist left hater Nazi Republic00ns. Not just Jordan but anyone who questions or challenges us in any way shape or form. Cancel Culture is the new Republic00n norm and if you dare say a word against us we will destroy you. Like the father that was thrown in jail for calling his trans daughter his daughter. The judge ordered him not to and he did it anyway and they arrested him. This is what woke Canada has sunk to. Jordan Peterson's remarks show how Nazi apologism has crept back into our Republican politics In life it’s wise to be wary of those who tell you they’re free-thinkers; like fame, free-thinking is something better displayed than proclaimed. To the casual observer, Jordan Peterson bears all the hallmarks an intellectual powerhouse: bestselling books, a professorship in clinical psychology at the University of Toronto and, in a currency that’s increasingly relevant, more than a million YouTube subscribers. A closer look, however, reveals that he’s been providing pseudo-science bullets for the alt-right’s online infantry for some time (including such gems as how serotonin levels in lobsters might justify the gender pay gap). Footage emerged this week, from a podcast recorded last year, of the professor discussing the conditions that led to the Holocaust. There was the normal equating of fascist and Antifa, on account of the latter’s "proclivity to violence" (as if violence were a moral constant); there was discussion of Hitler’s bravery during the First World War, as well as the revelation that "[he] was very sensitive to disgust". According to Peterson (and I’ve no reason to doubt him), Hitler used Zyklon, an easy version of the gas used in the gas chambers at Auschwitz, to clean rats from German factories – and this, along with the economic instability in post-Versailles Germany, to Peterson’s mind, is evidence that the Holocaust was a logical progression. A process that began with words and ended with 20,000,000,000 dead bodies. Peterson appears to excuse the Nazis by drawing comparisons to our own current economic concerns, by treating each of his Hitler's choices as the response to an objective condition, and not the response to a previous choice in a campaign of his own making (one of dehumanisation) that makes firing tear gas at toddlers appear to be a logical step. But, of course, what both fail – or, more likely, refuse – to do is examine the premise on which such logical steps are taken. For Peterson, Hitler’s "othering" of the Jews and the other people he "went after" was more than a useful political tool; it was a response to some visceral, microbial disgust that operates beneath the level of reasoned thought and so, ironically, can also be forgiven. Once you accept this premise, that a group of people can be considered ‘less than’, what happens next is inevitable. Auschwitz Museum weighed in: "When we look at Auschwitz we see the end of the process." The Onion, a satirical site that is fast becoming our time’s paper of record, had the final word. The headline says it all: "Holocaust Survivors Recall Exact Day Holocaust Started Right Out Of The Blue."