Comments by "Nicholas Conder" (@nicholasconder4703) on "Why I quote people you don't like" video.

  1.  @vojislavdragic5090  I'm afraid that some people, left, right or centre, have such blinkered perspectives that you have to explain things in words of one syllable. And even then they won't get it.
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  2.  Politically Correct  Unfortunately, the same can be said for the far right as well. People who exist at either extreme of the political spectrum have a dogmatic approach to things, and will often ignore facts or colour them to match their own perspective. You only have to look at the militarists in Japan during the 1930s to see an example of far right dogmatism, and its effects. Far right extremists support adhering to the old ways to the point of stagnating society, while those on the left are so wrapped up in their belief that their "cause" will bring about a world of pink fluffy clouds and flying unicorns that they ignore the most obvious of pitfalls, human nature. Both groups are basically control freaks.
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  3.  @TheImperatorKnight  Probably because Beevor acknowledged (either openly or by inference - I haven't read the book) that it was the prompt and effective actions by the Wehrmacht that ultimately doomed Market-Garden. The Allies were just not able to move their units fast enough and in sufficient numbers to take advantage of their brief window of opportunity.
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  4. Sometimes even beating people over their heads with facts doesn't help. They must be using a fact-sensitive version of the glasses Zaphod Beeblebrox wore.
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  5. I agree with you, TIK. If you want to explain why someone did something, you need to put yourself in their situations and in their heads. Then, in the case of people like Hitler and Stalin, immediately take several showers afterwards to clean off the filth. And as you said (as have I on several occasions), I understand why they did it, but I most certainly don't agree with what they said or did.
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  6.  @Katuzzi  Well, it is profitable, for those in charge. Then again, so was communism. I mean, how many of the proletariat had dachas in the Crimea?
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