Ive always thought that it was strange how if Nazis actually held all of their beliefs genuinely they would not be white supremacists. If anything, theyd want to be Jewish supremacists.
I guess its just that i needed to understand that Nazis dont just think different than me. They also have different goals.
“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”
Ive always thought that it was strange how if Nazis actually held all of their beliefs genuinely they would not be white supremacists. If anything, theyd want to be Jewish supremacists.
I guess its just that i needed to understand that Nazis dont just think different than me. They also have different goals.
“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
Exactly. They know they cannot state their true aims for fear of being socially ostracized and so they have to be incoherent.