Complicity and _GR_ (was and still is Re: IBM, Disney, Bush: Nazis?)

[jbor]

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>From: Eric Rosenbloom <ericr at sadlier.com>
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> Which is precisely why the reports under discussion are important: to
> remind us that the kind of thinking that gave rise to the Nazis and
> which they continued to exploit was and is (and no doubt will always be)
> prevalent in the Allied countries as well, maybe even in our own heads .
> . . ("What would YOU have done?)

I'm doing it, pretty much.

I've nothing against the legitimate historical reportage and investigations,
the subpoenaing of archival documents, the reports of the legal proceedings,
the suits. What is less defensible is the filibustering and inflammatory
rhetoric which greets these reports, the overt or covert ulterior motives of
the filibusters to discredit the Bushes, Microsoft or Disneycorp c. 2001 and
so undermine their constitutionally-legitimate political or corporate or
cultural status, the misappropriation of genocide and suffering as metaphor
and its reduction to balance sheet calculations etc.

> It is the realization of complicity that drives the Counterforce.

The members of the Counterforce are brought to a sudden revelation of their
own complicity, that's for sure. Don't know if I could be so sure where this
"drives the Counterforce", if anywhere at all.

best