| | Damn, it's been a while. I mean, a long while. I've kinda been in a huge maelstrom of various things, and other such crap. I'm presenting a paper on Beowulf in California in about a month, so I need to prepare that, plus the usual course load. So, yeah, no time for posting on either of my blogs lately. But now it's near the end of my Spring break, and I will post, dammit!
So, let me catch you all up on things so far. Here in Columbia , interesting things are transpiring this weekend; the Nazis, much like Santa Claus, are coming to town. Yep, that's right. The National Socialist Party of America has randomly decided to pay a visit to our town. Why? Because apparently the departing Mizzou President, Elson Floyd, is apparently a communist. (Incidentally, he's also black. Wonder if that has anything to do with it?) So, now we've got about 20-50 inbred Teutonic yahoos from Minnesota with a 5-hour license to parade in downtown Columbia. Fun times.
Seriously, though, why here? Regardless of Floyd's political status, why the hell is Columbia worth it? It's not to gain support, let me tell you, and it's not because we've got a particularly high concentration of Nazis. Most likely, it's because we're a relatively small town in the Midwest, so they think that they can actually get a reaction. Apparently, their plan is to cause some manner of riot from anti-Nazi protesters, and thus make it look like the police are on their side. And sure enough, a few local teenagers seem to be taking the bait, according to the Tribune, and are going to have ringside seats to this debacle, claiming to be taking part in "history."
I'd like to address said teenagers directly: Are you people retarded? The Nazi Party is insignificant in the U.S. Too many people groups have mixed together here to piece together a "pure" group of white people. It's a goddam melting pot. Hell, I'm roughly 1/4 Dutch, 1/4 Puerto Rican, 1/2 misc. white, and on top of it all, I look Jewish. So how many people are there even going to be left if the Neo-Nazis got their way? Their whole ideology is ludicrous, unoriginal, and tired, and you're only giving them the attention they crave, but in no way deserve.
Of course, you might say, "Well, at least I can take a stand and show those Nazi bastards how much I hate them. Nazis piss me off. Grrrr." This all stems to something else that's been bothering me lately. You ever get the feeling that the Nazis have fulfilled the role as the appearance of ultimate evil in society? After all, whether you're conservative or liberal, religious or secular, we can all find common ground in hating those Nazi bastards. From a philosophical angle, they serve as a stock example of the evil mankind is capable of. For lazier, more spineless comedians, Nazis make the perfect target for any range of jokes, because no one gets offended when you make fun of Nazis right? Except for maybe some pasty Bavarian mama's boy from Minnesota. Feel like watching the History Channel? Well, I hope you like watching Nazis! And, of course, the very word Nazi is perfect for insulting people. Cop pull you over? He's a Nazi. Parents ground you? They're Nazis. A President you don't like is in office doing shit you agree with? Well, he's clearly a Nazi.
My memory of history class may be a bit spotty, but I do believe we beat the Nazis over sixty years ago. Abundantly so, as if the history books are correct. And yet for all this time, we've been beating this dead horse for all that time, giggling like first-graders who've heard a dirty word whenever we see another Hitler gag on Comedy Central. Can we please move on? Doesn't mankind have enough evil groups of people in its long, sad history for us to poke fun of? Yeah, I get it, Hitler stands out the most because he developed a standardized method for conquest, domination, and liquidation of his enemies, but can we find someone else? How about Josef Stalin? He was a real dirtbag, purged millions, yet got away with it because he switched sides in the middle of WWII. Why don't we have more Josef Stalin jokes? I mean, c'mon, we don't even have to do that much of a costume change, just trade out the swastika for a hammer and sickle and give the guy a bigger mustache and a Russian accent. Or how about Castro? You can bet that when Cuba finally gets rid of that bastard, we're gonna hear all kinds of horror stories about we he pulled. Why don't we throw some more of those Castro jokes out there? Or, if you're looking for just generic examples of human evil, how about the massacres in Rwanda, the one we conveniently overlooked until they made a movie about it recently?
Look, all I'm saying is that we need to get off of this idea that Nazis are the most evil things in the world. Yes, they were evil, we all agree. Yes, the impact of their evil has left its mark on our world, and we're not likely to forget what they did anytime soon. But the Nazis of the WWII are dead, Hitler is extremely dead, and all we've got now is a bunch of clowns who are making lame attempt to ride the wave of a movement that pretty much lost credibility in 1945. So for the love of God, can y'all just find a new bad guy? Or here's an even better idea: instead of just pointing out the blatantly obvious evil in these goose-steppers over here or those bigots over there, why don't we all just admit that the human race as a group is composed of sick, twisted, selfish bastards and just get it over with?
Hmm, I'm feeling unusually bitter tonight. I guess I'll just blame the Nazis and go to bed.
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| | Posted 3/10/2007 2:45 AM - 30 Views - 2 eProps - 1 Comment
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