I Get Emails: “AN ODIOUS AND PERFIDIOUS GERMANOPHOBE”

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I Get Emails: “AN ODIOUS AND PERFIDIOUS GERMANOPHOBE”

Written By : John Hawkins

This piece of hate mail came in last night about 1:00 AM and it so funny that I just had to share,

From: PCRHEIN@*********

Subject: Re: 10 Lessons We Can Learn From The Rise Of The Nazis

YOU ARE AN IGNORANT,STUPID,HYPOCRITICAL LIAR, AN ODIOUS AND PERFIDIOUS GERMANOPHOBE AND A F@GGOTY ANGLOPHILE B@STARD;DROP DEAD!

So, what do you think? Is this guy a Nazi who’s offended that I trashed his beloved Third Reich or a German with a persecution complex who can’t deal with the fact that his grandpa was probably hustling people into the gas chamber and getting excited about the idea of subjugating Poland? I’m leaning towards the latter.

Personally, I don’t blame Germans today for what past generations of Germans did. It’s no more their fault than it is the fault of modern Americans that our ancestors kept slaves. That being said, a lot of good people had to die to stop the Axis from butchering and enslaving the world. To whitewash what really happened and pretend that the German people didn’t happily go along with Hitler in murdering Jews and conquering their neighbors, the moment they thought they could get away with it, would be an insult to both the victims of the Nazis and the brave men who gave their lives to stop them.

What Germany, not just Hitler, but Germany did in World War II, will be a stain upon that nation’s honor for the rest of history. That’s not the fault of Germans who weren’t around back then, but it is something they will have to live with.

http://TheNixonTape.Com Dick_Nixon

sounds like realpolitik emailed you. He is a Nazi.
Realpolitik

dixon, you lie as much as the real Nixon.
http://www.superdickery.com mightysamurai

Posted by Realpolitik

2009-09-08 11:04:24

So you're just a Nazi sympathizer then?
http://conservativebootcamp.com martinhale

I see a third option – that "PCRHEIN" is neither a Nazi, nor a German with a persecution complex, but rather (s)he is a dyed-in-the-wool kook.

The first clue is that (s)he wrote in 'shouty' (all caps) – that's a time-honoured tradition of which loonies never seem to tire. But it's also a big clue that "PCRHEIN" has built his or emotional house on a foundation that's cracked and crumbling.

Secondly, it takes "PCRHEIN" only twelve words to get to using broad-brush stereotyped descriptions of you – Germanophobe and

Anglophile. Usually getting to those broad accusations that quickly is a good indication that there's no rational argument or thinking behind the screed.

Thirdly, there's a profound disconnect between "PCRHEIN" calling you a string of pejoratives and then substituting "@" symbols for the letter "A", in faggoty and bastard as if to somehow soften or ameliorate the impact of those words. That makes little logical sense, and is probably indicative of a distorted though process.

Fourthly, there is the malformed punctuation throughout the email. Another good sign that the author is, or is trying to appear, somewhat deficient in communication skills. It's also telling because virtually every email client today has spell/grammar check built in and it's highly likely that the programme itself provided those endearing squiggly red lines under the offending text which the author had to consciously ignore, another clue as to their emotional lability.

All in all, John, I'd say you've got a kook on your hands, not a Nazi or a German with a persecution complex.
http://PatriotPost.US bthewolf

So you're just a Nazi sympathizer then?

Posted by mightysamurai

2009-09-08 11:10:49

No he's a Nazi, but he alway's projects his foibles on US to save face, and because he's in a great deal of denial.
tre

"AN ODIOUS AND PERFIDIOUS GERMANOPHOBE"

Gee, someone likes showing off their large vocabulary while calling you nasty names, don't they?
http://arcadehomer.blogspot.com celebrim

"To whitewash what really happened and pretend that the German people didn't happily go along with Hitler in murdering Jews and conquering their neighbors, the moment they thought they could get away with it, would be an insult to both the victims of the Nazis and the brave men who gave their lives to stop them."

I would think that it would also be an insult to the Nazi's themselves. Afterall, not everyone caught up in the Nazi machine was a dishonorable man, any more than every man fighting for the South was without honor. Many of the rank and file Werhmacht were simply German patriots. Atrocities cannot be attributed to the German soldiery wholesale, and if you wish to try, then you find you must also make the Allied soldier libel for every Allied attrocity as well. This is a sort of moral relativity, because when you do that very quickly you find yourself claiming that the allies were just as bad as the Nazi's – which hopefully was exactly the opposite of where you wanted to be by painting every Nazi as a faceless monsters.

It is helpful to remember that blood can be shed noblely and with great courage and martial virtue defending even the most ignoble causes – perhaps even especially defending the most ignoble causes because too much martial virtue and celebration of martial virtue is itself at least as dangerous of a thing as too little. If we want to even in the slightest remember those ordinary German boys and men who died fighting skillfully and courageously without needing to paint over them with the board brush of 'bad guys', if we want to assign any meaning to their lives at all, as a prerequisite we must first remember the ignominity of the cause they died for. Only then dare we clearly look at them as people, and only then dare we empathize or sympathize with a 18 year old German soldier huddled behind a hedge row with a Mauser and too little training. Get the things in reverse, and you too easily forget just what sort of monsterous regime that young man is defending.

One thing that is very important is to not allow yourself as a nation to drown in shame and self-loathing. It was pride turned to shame and self-loathing for the defeat in WWI, and the fear of admitting to the meaning of WWI and the German defeat that gave the Nazi's the foothold they needed in Germany. The problem with shame is that it too easily can be flipped back to pride and arrogance because it sets you up to swallow the first lie that comes your way that allows you to put aside the burden of that shame. I in no way want the German and Japanese people to revel in shame, because such a situation is not healthy and not culturally sustainable.

I suspect its shame turned to bitterness and arrogance that is behind your hatemail. I also agree with the 'kook' analysis martinhale performs above, but want to point out that they aren't mutually exclusive. Kooks almost always pick up on a nations emotional distress faster than the citizenry as a whole does. The kooks serve as a very important barometer of the nations health. You can't tell anything from what a kook believes about what should be done in the nation, but you can tell a good deal about where something needs to be done from what issue is attracting the kooks. 'Kookiness' is not insanity. Insanity is baseline biology, but kookiness is contagious and spreads in direct proportion to the emotional distress of the community. Hense, the outbreak of truthers in the wake of 9/11, and the lesser but still important kookiness going on on the right.

We are running out of time over here, which should give us pause before picking on the German kooks too much.
http://guardian.blogdrive.com/ CavalierX

All I have to say is that "Perfidious Germanophobe" sounds like one hellaciously cool name for a band.
Rickvid_in_Seattle

I am not afraid of germs, but I do want to kill them…What, Germans. Not germs? Sooorrrry!
Bildo

Sounds like Pat Buchanan is reading your blog, John.
D-Vega

Ha! You beat me to it, Bildo.

Patty Buke seems to be going over the edge a little lately. A pro-Hitler column? Only Patty has the stones to do it with a straight face.
RWNReader2

Sounds like Pat Buchanan is reading your blog, John

I'd say it's Marc Garlascos of Human Rights Watch, who has been outed as a Nazi souvenier collector, in between his HRW 'job' of condemming Israel and promoting Palestinian propoganda.

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MzFlMDY5…
http://TheNixonTape.Com Dick_Nixon

Look, it is the poster who said "Hitler was a great man".

Posted by Dick_Nixon

As indeed he was (no one can argue).

Posted by Realpolitik

2009-09-04 21:11:34
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