Now You Know Why the Germans Did Nothing

When our liberal friends are in a mellow moment, taking time out from canceling everyone for racism, they like to emit moral lectures about the Germans under Hitler. How come millions of Germans said nothing and did nothing while Hitler's thugs were beating up the Jews in the 1930s.

Let's take the German philosopher Martin Heidegger as a case in point. All the following is official revealed truth from La Wik.

• Heidegger was a student of the Jewish philosopher Husserl.
• Heidegger was rector of the University of Freiberg for a year in 1933. A week before his appointment, his predecessor had suspended all Jewish professors at Freiberg, including Husserl. Heidegger did nothing.
• Heidegger joined the Nazi Party a week after his appointment as rector.
• Heidegger resigned his rectorship in 1934 after about a year on the job.
• Heidegger did not go to Husserl's cremation in 1938.

Here is a quote from Hans Sluga, in La Wik.

Though as rector he prevented students from displaying an anti-Semitic poster at the entrance to the university and from holding a book burning, he kept in close contact with the Nazi student leaders and clearly signaled to them his sympathy with their activism.

You mean, like today's university administrators and politicians turn a blind eye towards BLM and AntiFa activism, "clearly [signaling] to them [their] sympathy with their activism?"

And look: Heidegger had published his Being and Time in 1927 and established his reputation as a philosopher for all time, so why didn't he have the guts to be a Sacrificial Hero against the murderous Nazis? To this day, there is a black cloud over Heidegger.

And to this day, our liberal friends have dined off the horrors of Heidegger, and the Germans "who did nothing," and the Americans who did nothing during the McCarthy period.

Yes, liberals. But now the shoe is on the other foot, as you liberals allow ordinary Americans to be canceled by left-wing Twitter mobs, while university administrators and university presidents do nothing. Here's the latest, a girl's university admissions offer canceled from because of a 3-second SnapChat video she sent in 2016 when she was 15: "I can drive, n***a". I assume that she used the word n***a and not n****r, but you never know. Says The New York Times,

[The young woman] was among many incoming freshmen across the country whose admissions offers were revoked by at least a dozen universities after videos emerged on social media of them using racist language.

Pretty cool, liberals isn't it. You chaps boost gangsta rap as really cool, and then your brave college admissions administrators do the cowardly thing and whack a naive little girl for taking you up on it. 

Because, like Heidegger, you wouldn't want to lean against the political wind, no siree.

Earth to liberals: the current leftist cancel culture is exactly like Nazi Germany in the 1930s. Prudent, ordinary administrators and bureaucrats and industrialists go along to get along. Hey, it's the prudent thing to do! After all, who could have known in the 1930s that it would all end in the Holocaust?

The kid that outed the girl on the n-word is proud of what he did.

“I wanted to get her where she would understand the severity of that word,” Mr. Galligan, 18, whose mother is Black and father is white, said of the classmate who uttered the slur, Mimi Groves. He tucked the video away, deciding to post it publicly when the time was right.

Of course he is proud. That's what he has been carefully taught: to be a noble activist and fight, as an ally, against white supremacy and systemic racism.

Or you could say that he is a dupe of the ruling class, that wants to use blacks as their political tool: on the one hand getting 90 percent of the black vote, because racism, and on the other permanently cowing the ordinary white working class into subservience, because racism. 

Here's a question for you scholars and philosophers. How come the naming and shaming of someone as "literally Hitler" carries a real zing, while calling someone "literally Stalin" doesn't have quite the same canceling power?

And calling someone "literally Mao" has even less zing. Yet, Mao was a bigger mass murderer that Stalin, and Stalin was a bigger mass murderer than Hitler. What gives?

You know as well as I do. It all comes down to what we have been carefully taught. And our noble and dedicated teachers have been more interested in teaching us about the crimes of Hitler than about the crimes of Stalin and Mao. I wonder why?

And meanwhile, all across America noble philosophers and academicians and administrators are "doing nothing" to stem the tide of neo-fascist leftism.