Still, you have to have your nose rubbed in the fact that Sen. Schumer’s aides broke the law to get dirt on Steele to keep Steele out of the US Senate. Schumer should have fired these two aides if he were consistant with his rhetoric, and you’d should have been calling for their firing, if you were an honest person.

I didn’t notice that the statements about “Nazi-land” came from another article. Regardless of who made the original statement, I still find it very ignorant, referring to the black leaders’ views mentioned in the article, as “Nazi-land”.

The Nazi philosophy revolved around murdering others because of their race. To compare every action that someone finds offensive to Nazis trivializes what they did.

I never said I approved of any statements made about Mr. Steele. The only thing I disapproved of is comparing statements that one finds offensive to Nazis. There is no comparison.

If Mr. Steele chooses to run for public office people have the right to criticize him. I don’t approve of using racial slurs against black politicians by whites or blacks but people have a right to criticize him if they disagree with his positions. If people think his policies are bad for the black community, they have a right to say so. If they are using racial slurs to do this, I think it hurts their cause more than it helps it. According to the article, racial slurs were condemned by Republicans and Democrats, and rightfully so.

Edited. –ST Where on earth do you get the idea that I impersonated Mr. Steele to get his private credit record or had anything to do with such an act?

Do you ever listen to what anyone else says?

I find it horrible that Liberals, such as yourself, can’t see the hypocrisy in the way you treat Mr. Steele. You break the law by impersonating him to get his private credit record, then you don’t fire the people who broke the law, and you don’t demand the politician involved appologize and resign for harassing a black man.

It doesn’t matter whether she likes doing it or not. Comparing making a statement that a black politician’s “values and political philosophies aren’t the same as those of the majority of black folks” to Nazis trivializes what the Nazis did. To do so is just ignorant.

David,

It wasn’t just the view of the Nazis that “the belief that race and nationality are the most important things about an individual”. It was alot more than that.

Here are some early quotes from hitler:
http://www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/genocide/statements.htm

Don’t be misled into thinking you can fight a disease without killing the carrier, without destroying the bacillus. Don’t think you can fight racial tuberculosis without taking care to rid the nation of the carrier of that racial tuberculosis. This Jewish contamination will not subside, this poisoning of the nation will not end, until the carrier himself, the Jew, has been banished from our midst. (1920)

In 1922, when Joseph Hell asked Hitler what he intended doing if he ever had full freedom of action against the Jews, his response was:

“If I am ever really in power, the destruction of the Jews will be my first and most important job. As soon as I have power, I shall have gallows after gallows erected, for example, in Munich on the Marienplatz-as many of them as traffic allows. Then the Jews will be hanged one after another, and they will stay hanging until they stink. They will stay hanging as long as hygienically possible. As soon as they are untied, then the next group will follow and that will continue until the last Jew in Munich is exterminated. Exactly the same procedure will be followed in other cities until Germany is cleansed of the last Jew!”

Do you really see this quotes by hitler as meaning nothing more than,”the belief that race and nationality are the most important things about an individual”?

David, it’s somewhat related, but very remotely (IMO).

There is no comparison between what was described in the article and what the Nazis did. The Nazis murdered over eleven million people. I don’t see how anyone can compare stating “that Steele’s values and political philosophies aren’t the same as those of the majority of black folks” to murdering millions of people. That’s just ignorant. If Sister Toldjah spent time in a Nazi concentration camp, I assure you she wouldn’t throw the word Nazi around so lightly.

“One basic principle must be the absolute rule for the SS men – we must be honest, decent, loyal, and comradely to members of our own blood and to nobody else. What happens to a Russian or to a Czech does not interest me in the slightest.” (Heinrich Himmler)

Isn’t this at least *somewhat* related to the belief–which seems increasingly dominant in the Democratic Party–that a person can only “represent” those of his own race?

In both cases, human universalism is abandoned for racial particularism.