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    18 days ago

    Germans are taught to recognize genocide and fascistic actions through aesthetics, not substance. Consequently they continue to support both, including through the classic, intentional dissembling and deflection from such things, as you are doing now.

    I prefer that genocide deniers use a language that most people here will understand. But yes, I can see and understand what you and your compatriots say, especially when you think nobody else is reading.

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            18 days ago

            It is a command, really, one that continues a pattern of cowardly deflection from and attempts at trolling for genocide.

            German Lemmitors aren’t beating the charges.

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                18 days ago

                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.