Politics: Onward from New Hampshire

[Not Me]

Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
It's a stupid argument, and only the more stupid if you're playing these games. I don't care. You're right about all of it.

It isn't a game. I won this debate fairly by pointing out your inconsistent positions. Your first post talked about how science profs try to weed people out and the humanities profs are more welcoming of students with different majors. Somehow, this led you to conclude that grades do not reflect intrinsic merit.

Then you make the point that if a prof asks harder questions on a test, a B in that class means more than an A- in a class where the test questions were easier. I agree with you on this point, however, it contradicts your earlier post about grades not reflecting intrinsic merit.

Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
You said "that the German people were unwilling to do anything to stop the Nazis." I pointed out that the left wing was armed and ready to stop Hitler's rise to power, but was waiting for a coup that never came. You may have missed that I was talking about the early 1930s. I also mentioned that the military planned a coup before Munich. The military tried again, and Hitler escaped an attempt on his life in 1944 through impressive luck. So, to the extent that you were saying anything other than that Germans were anti-Semitic, you were wrong. I choose not to argue with you on your larger point.

I meant unwilling to stop the Nazis from killing jews once the Nazis were in fact killing jews. I was not talking about the various groups vying for power in pre-WWII Germany. I am talking about how little was done to stop the killing of jews.

The various political groups competing with Hitler for the affections of the german people prior to WWII were competing to establish their own power or because they didn't agree with a war. They weren't trying to save the jews.

Yeah, I saw Schiendler's list, too. The reason it was a story that was made into a movie is because it was so fucking rare that a German would have done something like that to save jews.