10-06-2003, 05:41 PM
|
#11
|
|
Hello, Dum-Dum.
Join Date: Mar 2003
Posts: 10,117
|
SuperGrover Runs Afoul of Godwin's Law
Grover Norquist, on NPR's Fresh Air:*
Quote:
NORQUIST: The argument that some who played at the politics of hate and envy and class division will say, 'Yes, well, that's only 2 percent,' or as people get richer 5 percent in the near future of Americans likely to have to pay that tax. I mean, that's the morality of the Holocaust. 'Well, it's only a small percentage,' you know. 'I mean, it's not you, it's somebody else.'
GROSS: Excuse me one second. Did you just compare the Estate Tax with the Holocaust?
NORQUIST: No, the morality that says it's OK to do something to do a group because they're a small percentage of the population is the morality that says that the Holocaust is OK because they didn't target everybody, just a small percentage. 'What are you worried about? It's not you. It's not you. It's them.'
|
*You'll have to decide which 23% is misperception.
Edited to correct misconception/misperception rate, lest it become a further self-fulfilling prophecy.
Last edited by Atticus Grinch; 10-06-2003 at 05:53 PM..
|
|
|
Threaded Mode