houts@reed.UUCP (Bill Houts) (03/30/85)
> >Personally I have alot more respect for Hitler and the Nazis than I do for >the Jews. The Jews were just victims. At least the Nazis had ideals >for which they willing to fight and die for and yes even commit "atrocities" >for. Which of the three do you think takes more courage? > First; forgive me if I ramble. I am not really sure how to take your article. In all honesty, I am too numbed to be outraged. I mean, I'm not the sort to "fire off" angry retorts to every mildly inflammatory piece that comes through the net. I am a college student attending an expensive liberal arts institution, and so must make the most of my time in order to get passable grades so that I can keep the financial aid which is so necessary to my education. This means that I scarcely have the time to be become a member of the Usenet Pantheon of Gods. The Celebrity Panel. You know who I mean: Rosen, Brown, Arndt, Marchionni, Black, and a host of other subscribers who realize that their names are recognizable to users all over the world, and who flame and get flamed because they are thereby catapulted into a sort of magnetic-media immortality. I do not despise these people for this; nor do I have any use for them. My only contribution to the net has been a series of of puns on the name "Jesus", all of which were ill-taken, and quite possibly ill-conceived as well. I did not return half the flames I received in response to my harmless little exercises in wordplay, although many of them were staggering in their single-minded vehemence and intensity. So; I am not one easily provoked to respond. There was something peculiar to your article on Nazism that has compelled me to reply in kind. It would be almost too easy to attack you for the sentiments expressed in your article. Rather, I can only ask why. And how. How can you have found it within yourself to "admire" Hitler above the Jews. That the Jews were victims, there can be little doubt, but how were they "merely victims"? How much courage was needed to stoke old men into ovens? How were they brave, those men who slept upon pillows of human hair? -- Bill Houts (a.k.a. Captain Chaos) Cosmic Color Control tektronix!reed!houts "I claim to be the Kleenex reborn."