What He Said

I am Jewish, and the son of a Holocaust survivor.

In the same way white people cannot imagine the pain that black people feel when the n-word is used, Keith Ellison as a Muslim has to understand how ANY analogy about Nazism not directly related to Germany and Hitler is inappropriate.

If I referred to his election as part of a "Crusade" or "Jihad," he would be accusing me exactly of what he is being accused of doing.

Freedom of speech comes with responsibility, and his comments at best are irresponsible, and at worst much more sinister.

I am contacting conservative bloggers around the country since I am one as
well. I hope this email is not an intrusion.

http://www.bloggerschoiceawards.com/blogs/show/21020

Thank you.

eric aka http://www.blacktygrrrr.wordpress.com

P.S. If you are open to doing a link exchange, I get some pretty decent traffic.

I agree with Eric. Using Hitler or Nazi analogies, particularly in a name calling context, trivializes the horror and despicable crimes committed by those fiends. It is socially and politically irresponsible to speak in those terms. I simply wasn't addressing that issue in my post, "What He Said."

By comparing the burning of the Reichstag, which was clearly Nazi propaganda, to the attacks on 9/11, Congressman Ellison is discounting the completely real threat that was and still is behind the terrorists actions on that day in 2001. 9/11 was not a staged event created by the Bush administration as a power grab. By making any comparison between these two events is irresponsible and dangerous as Ellison is lending his voice to a very dangerous and absurd conspiracy theory.