re: #673 chipbennett

Er, no. My argument is no such thing; rather, my argument is that me calling myself a leftwinger doesn’t make the statement true simply because I said it. Likewise, a white supremacist group self-identifying as rightwing doesn’t make the statement true simply because I said it.

Regardless of whether or not such groups self-identify as “rightwing”, their stated beliefs refute such identification. They are socialists, ergo, leftwing.

Those on the right wish to dissociate themselves from Nazis and Fascists for the same reason that many Christians wish to disown those Christians who collaborated with the Third Reich, and more recently, Fred Phelps’ Westboro Baptist Church and the Church of Jesus Christ Christian in Idaho - because they find them to be repugnant and the very association to be distressingly indicting of their own ideologies.

But the energy expended upon such vociferous denials would be better and more responsibly spent upon introspection and clarification, to ensure that such mutant abominations do not issue out of one’s own ideology in the future, as the editors of Christianity Today have done vis-a-vis the Christian Third Reich collaborators:

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