Comments by "L.W. Paradis" (@l.w.paradis2108) on "Canceled Gina Carano Can Still Save Her Career" video.

  1.  @BrianelSuperMacho  This is your response to historically accurate statements? I was parsing Carano's statement, first of all. That was the focus. Does a commitment to accuracy upset you so deeply that you immediately go to ad hominem, and then claim that I must be in need of medical treatment? (Considering my doctor is Jewish, I kinda doubt he'll see things your way, LOL!!)
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  2.  @emhu2594  I thought "fake victimhood" might be too strong a term to apply here. Now I see you were right on target. I should have been tipped off by the use of the term "feel" where it made no sense.
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  3.  @ewaldbracko1534  Violence against whom? Which essentialized ethnic minority, deemed to be a "race," which is supposedly an immutable characteristic? Ironic that I'm watching Adam Curtis's new documentary, which treats this very subject among many others. I lived in Europe, too, and my parents lived through WWII, in one of the countries the Nazis targetted. I know what happened, very, VERY well. Shame!
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  4.  @ewaldbracko1534  When did the Jews hold power in prewar Germany? When were they the president and the majority in the Reichstag? When did they riot in the capital, after losing an election they could have won easily, just by doing a halfway competent job? So many parallels indeed. /s
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  5. Systematic genocide based on a spurious racial theory has nothing to do with political "demonization" of equally powerful parties and coalitions that regularly trade political power. Gina asked rhetorically "what's the difference . . . ?" That is the difference. It is not as if the Nazis could have picked just any scapegoat. They picked the one they did for a reason. If they wanted her to tweet better, they should have provided her with cheat sheets. She's not a historian and wasn't hired to be one. But apparently she has persuaded a lot of people that her history is solid. That's all that firing her has accomplished. It would have been better to leave her alone on that score.
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  6. That isn't what she said, and in any case the comparison she did make is entirely inapt. My gawd, people don't know this history -- is that the problem?
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  7.  @d.1.a_mayby18  Of course you'd be safe. People assume you have a concealed carry permit.
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  8. Systematic genocide based on a spurious racial theory has nothing to do with political "demonization" of equally powerful parties and coalitions that regularly trade political power. Gina asked rhetorically "what's the difference . . . ?" That is. If they wanted her to tweet better, they should have provided her with cheat sheets. Somehow she didn't get the memo that Twitter is for advertising, not airing dumb political views. She's not a historian and wasn't hired to be one.
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  9.  @graywalkerjoin3rdparty74  I'm not missing any point. Do you know someone's politics unless they tell you? How is that comparable to the history of anti-Semitism? Look, plenty of leftists (communists, socialists, various Marxists) were targetted and killed by the Nazis. No one, least of all them, claims it was comparable to genocide. LOOK UP THE WORD.
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  10.  @zacboyles1396  No. Gina did. She drew the comparison between the Nazi genocide and contemporary political animosity and demonization. And I did not say it was a fire-able offense, or an "offense" at all. I said it was historically inaccurate, and wildly so. Unacceptable, in my view. But if she is entitled to her own facts, then I defer to her. Once we go down THAT road, it is hopeless anyway. I'm not being paid for the history lesson. I'm done. One person finally believed me after Ben Shapiro gave a reasonable analysis of the whole matter. Tootles.
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  11.  @BrianelSuperMacho  I did, and someone had it removed. Why should I bother to speak to you? You, in your great wisdom and tolerance for all viewpoints, pronounced me in need of medical care.
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  12.  @BrianelSuperMacho  I already said enough in any event. Go back and read slowly. Anti-Semitism was a form of racism. It has zero to do with, for example, the way YOU "dehumanized" me when you suggested medical treatment, and said that nothing I wrote was worth responding to. Strike a blow against dehumanization, why don't you? What a laugh.
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  13.  @BrianelSuperMacho  Not only do you all confirm my worst suspicions, you confirm suspicions I haven't had yet. "No matter how cynical you get, you just can't keep up." -- Lilly Tomlin (possibly paraphrased )
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  14.  @ewaldbracko1534  It's "the left" that shot up a synagogue? "The left" targetted a black church, and killed all the people who said to the gunman, "sit down with us and let's pray together?" Who is saying "good riddance" every time someone like George Zimmerman or Kyle Rittenhouse picks up a gun and shoots it? (For that matter, who started the rumor that the Sandy Hook school massacre was faked?) Neolibs are playing a lame and mindless game with advertising memes, and they need to be stopped from trying to ruin careers over such nonsense, I'll agree with you there. Zero comparison with the Nazis.
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  15.  @ewaldbracko1534  Because political violence is not comparable to racially-motivated genocide.
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  16.  @ewaldbracko1534  I don't "lean into" anything. (Where did you get that slogan? LOL) I don't care about American "ideological camps," and literally none of them reflect my beliefs. My family is not in America, and I need to join them as soon as I am financially able. You've invented a story in your head.
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  17.  @ewaldbracko1534  Oh, and if you are against "demonization," you have a funny way of showing it. WHO in this thread was subjected to ad hominem -- bizarre ad hominem at that? I was. So brave of you to criticize it. /s And WHO was it who labelled "the left" as being to blame for the polarization? You did. Now, it's suddenly both sides -- but my fault more than yours(!) The truly sad thing is that people will agree with you, because your way of demonizing one side for the supposed sin of demonizing the other will appeal to people's emotions. They won't see that you're doing precisely what you claim to stand against. All effective agitprop has this feature. It's quite perfect. DNC uses it all the time, as does RNC.
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  18.  @ewaldbracko1534  Systematic genocide based on a spurious racial theory has nothing to do with political "demonization" of equally powerful parties and coalitions that regularly trade political power. Gina asked rhetorically "what's the difference . . . ?" That is the difference. It is not as if the Nazis could have picked just any scapegoat. They picked the one they did for a reason. They don't teach that any more in German schools?
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  19.  @BrianelSuperMacho  I wouldn't have fired her for this, either. How funny. All the firing did was amplify her historically inaccurate tweet. She wasn't hired to be a historian. If major media organizations want people to tweet better, let them know. Twitter is an ad platform. Maybe she didn't know. Give them the memo, and a cheat sheet. She might have actually meant well this time.
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  20.  @ewaldbracko1534  Look up "genocide." In the dictionary, and at the UN website. It expressly excludes political affiliation as a basis for genocide. I think you're just trolling. This has devolved into sheer idiocy, like most things do these days.
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  21.  @ewaldbracko1534  It can also be ethnic or religious. Read something. Read the UN's definition.
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  22. Because her job is to be a good image tender on social media. It's an advertising platform.
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  23.  @d.1.a_mayby18  And . . . They're idiots? I rather think so.
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  24. A "bit?" "Maybe??" Do you actually not know the history of anti-Semitism as a form of RACISM? Let me make it simple: do you think that Jewish people who converted to Christianity, and were not considered Jews by the Jewish community, AND married gentiles, were safe from the Holocaust? The Nuremberg law defined Jews based on how much Jewish ancestry they had; they called it "Jewish blood." A person can always change their conservative politics and cease being identified as a conservative -- though why would they? "Conservatism" is usually a money-making act to put on.
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  25. Making a valid historical point and THEN adding on the nonsensical comparison to political opinions as a punchline is worse than going straight to the nonsense. People who are ignorant of history are more likely to be persuaded when hard truths are interwoven with a rank falsehood.
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  26. "Even if you feel the analogy is a stretch." It's not about feelings. Some things are false.
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  27.  @ewaldbracko1534  You wrote: "You're just leaning into hate culture!!!" No, no, no --- you're a hater, you're a hater, nah nah. Congratulations on finding the solution to this pressing issue. /s
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  28.  @ewaldbracko1534  Okay, non-genocide is just like genocide. Please consult Aristotle's Metaphysics, Book Gamma.
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  29. Twitter and Facebook are advertising platforms. I'm sorry anyone in movies or television thinks Twitter is a place to air their actual political opinions. They are supposed to engage in image tending and self-promotion, to the widest possible audience. Any network that does not explain this, and offer image consultants to those who may need them, is not playing fair.
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  30. Who told you this?
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