Nah, what's funny there Golden Bear is that in the name of being open, accepting and tolerant we're are forced to put up with people who are none of those things, and actively work to eliminate them. We are being forced to give them a seat at the table when we know that all they want to do is thrown the spaghetti on the floor and rub cake in their hair. And we're supposed to pretend that it's all OK.
Let us - just for a moment - consider the following...
That particular clip came from a film made in 1940 ... At the height of the neo-socialist New Dealers.
So, in a discussion about some potentially dangerous social trends from out of nowhere comes... the 1940s? Neo-socialism? What? The 1940s? Really? That's germane to the conversation how? Other than to name call - and be redundant at that . New Deal and neo-socialist are virtually interchangeable, with the first being a specific set of policies put into place after the rich guys (see how familiar this sounds) crashed the economy in a mad race for more money and left some other guys to clean up the mess and then spent 70 years hating on them for actually doing it.
Look (OK, aside from the historical inaccuracy, the 'height of the neo-socialist New Dealers' was the 1930s, by the 40's the whole 'war thing' was distracting everyone - and you know FDR and the neo-socialist New Dealers saved the United States of American and Capitalism at the same time and the Right has never forgiven them for that )...
Look ... here we are in 2012, looking to a not so distant future, and the reference we're given is to events that were some 70 years in the past so that a nice little 5 Minute Hate could be had.
Now, if we were there in the 1940s. Immersed in a horror far beyond anything that most of us can imagine. Millions of people were dying horrible deaths all over the world. Every able bodied young man had been pressed into military service. Women - both mothers and young women - had left home and hearth, put on overalls, picked up a blow-torch or a spot-welder, or rivet gun and were running the greatest industrial production line the world had ever seen. Every family was touched, and had lost someone. Almost every house had a blue star in the window, and every block - and I mean EVERY BLOCK right down to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave in Washington D.C. - had at least one house with a gold star in the window.
So, into this conversation we're having there in the 1940s about the current state of affairs and the future - well out pops Gramps who starts to praddle on about how Jefferson Davis didn't support Lee enough and lost the Civil War and how Grant was a war criminal and how Gettysburg was a bad strategic move...
Far from allowing Gramps to shape the conversation any further they would escort him back upstairs, give him his meds, put him to bed and 'lock the door this time, damn it.'
Time to realize that not only was the good Dr. Azamov right about people running around thinking that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge' but that needs to be stopped before it really changes into a nationwide movement where their ignorance actually becomes better than our knowledge because it's managed to seize the power.
That is a huge threat to all of us, one the internet has put into hyper-drive.
