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Beck: Progressivism is "the exact same kind of thinking that led to" Holocaust, eugenics

February 05, 2010 10:10 am ET

From the February 5 edition of Premiere Radio Network's The Glenn Beck Program

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    • Author by soze169880 (February 05, 2010 10:14 am ET)
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      Stay tuned for various Jewish groups condemning him for this, then some conservative token insisting that Beck is super-cool and anyone who criticizes him isn't a real Jew. You can set your watch by Beck, Limbaugh and the other anti-Semitic scam artists.
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    • Author by gs-425 (February 05, 2010 10:17 am ET)
         
      Read the diary's....make the connection.
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    • Author by Max Credits (February 05, 2010 10:20 am ET)
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      "the exact same"

      Now, please don't go thinking he's comparing Progressivism to Nazism. Beck would never do that.
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    • Author by bintx (February 05, 2010 10:24 am ET)
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      Actually, no. What led to the Holocaust was propagandists like Beck who railed day after day after day after day on the radio against the "undesirables" in Germany who had, according to the propagandists, caused all of Germany's economic and social woes. Hmmmm . . . I wonder who fits that description???????
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    • Author by soze169880 (February 05, 2010 10:31 am ET)
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      The Holocaust came about because of REGRESSIVE, arch-conservative thinking, i.e. Hitler's ability to exploit deeply-entrenched historical ethnic prejudices among the German people and create a scapegoat.
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    • Author by nerzog (February 05, 2010 10:41 am ET)
         
      Madness.
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    • Author by IRONY 101 (February 05, 2010 10:42 am ET)
         
      But he's not SPECIFICALLY saying that the Obama administration is a direct path to eugenics and another Holocaust. Of course not...
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      • Author by Talisman (February 05, 2010 1:12 pm ET)
           
        Let see if I got this right.

        Progressive thinking led to Planned Parenthood whose intent was to provide and education the public on birth control which is the same as killing babies, and since they killed babies during the Holocaust then progressive thinking caused the Holocaust.

        I left out that Obama is a progressive thinker.

        Also,

        The gas chambers were not for the compassion of the victims but for the compassion of the executioners.
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    • Author by raddave43 (February 05, 2010 10:51 am ET)
         
      He will say he was criticizing the Anti-Semites. No wait, that's Rush's line
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    • Author by MagCynic (February 05, 2010 11:29 am ET)
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      Eugenics of course was kind of a big deal to the Progressives back in the day. I'm just saying..
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      • Author by MidnightWriter (February 05, 2010 11:47 am ET)
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        It was a big deal to a number of people including, as I recall, Winston Churchill.

        I don't think there's anyway to defend and individual's or group's ideas concerning Eugenics, but there is an obvious difference between the use of selective breeding, and the "racial hygiene" programs the Nazi's put in place.
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      • Author by vysotsky (February 05, 2010 1:27 pm ET)
           
        And yet the American progressive movement in the first half of the 20th century didn't result in a genocidal campaign of rounding up and gassing people. Doesn't this suggest to you that the reasons for the horrors of Nazi Germany might involve something else?
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    • Author by cindermaker (February 05, 2010 12:24 pm ET)
         
      Here we go again - Just as he finally cleared up his slaughter comments, he's right back on the big, colorful circus ball of stupidity.
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    • Author by Boxer1979 (February 05, 2010 3:43 pm ET)
         
      Beck: Progressivism is "the exact same kind of thinking that led to" Holocaust, eugenics

      ROFL!
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    • Author by williamsn517 (February 05, 2010 9:20 pm ET)
         
      I really wish beckkk would stop acting like he knows anything about history. When he goes back to college and gets a degree in history then he can come back and talk about history.
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