Moral Relativism on Hitler
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“Hitler was a good scapegoat, but I want to open people’s minds about him.”
The far right talk show hosts are at it again, this time spreading smears and hate against German leader Adolf Hitler.
No, seriously, that’s what Oliver Stoned would have been saying in 1944.
The man who immortalized Che Guevara is off to set the record straight and correct the right-wing’s misinformation campaign about Hitler.
In a new documentary series titled “Secret History of America,” Stoned says, “I’ve been able to walk in Stalin’s shoes and Hitler’s shoes to understand their point of view. We’re going to educate our minds and liberalize them and broaden them.”
Naturally, his goal is to prove that America is responsible for the mass murder of 12 million during the Holocaust and millions more in Stalin’s Russia.
“Go into the funding of the Nazi party. How many American corporations were involved, from GM through IBM.”
Right, it was America’s fault that some of her companies were doing business in Germany, not the Nazi’s fault for… …killing 12 million people.
Naturally, Stoned is the best source for information about US history. With regards to John F. Kennedy’s assassination, he thinks that the CIA, FBI, Secret Service, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Marilyn Manson’s music killed Kennedy. (Though recent email leaks suggest global warming was the real culprit.)
However there is a bigger issue than just one fanatic having stuff come out of his mouth. The larger issue is about the progressive elite’s absolute lack of moral values.
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