I had absolutely no problem understanding the tone, context and intent of Will Smith's commentary on Adolf Hitler. Will is a man of consummate effort at creating and maintaining a positive presence in a world where gangsta rappers use the power of the media to create a very dangerous fear in the minds of people with the power to call out the cattle cars on a group of people easily considerable as dangerous and unproductive. He has always erred towards the positive in all I have witnessed of him. You owe him an apology, if for no other reason than his own 'race legacy' of oppression and enslavement absolutely precludes that he would consider Hitler as anything other than a monster. There was no apology for Hitler in the statement I read as quoted by your source. There was, instead a very incisive understanding of the nature of evil.
Evil always has a 'good' reason to do what it does. Whether it's blinding oneself to the deadly oppression of apartheid while enriching self trading in gold and diamonds, or justifying the displacement of people from land they've lived on for thousands of years with euphemisms like "Manifest Destiny" or "God's promise to Abraham" three thousand to five thousand years ago. The ultimate test of good or evil is really too simple for Jews, Arabs, Christian, Blacks, Hindus or anybody else to misconstrue. If what you do to another causes suffering, disease, displacement or death, you are creating evil for that person or group of people, even if you have convinced yourself of the rightness of it. No righteous person will ever believe that Yahweh, Allah, Buddha, or Christ condones the suffering of even one person at the hands of another. Even if God tells a righteous man to do evil to another, that man in his best judgment would question just what 'God' was talking to him and tell him to do his own dirty work.
The correctness of Will Smith's comment bear scrutiny in this very instance, where-because of a largely emotional response at best, a pathological, post-traumatic stress reaction at worst-the JDL is willing to ruin his career, boycott his films and otherwise cause him harm. Having said all this, let's try the same quote and exchange the appellation "Hitler with the appellation "JDL":
Even the "JDL" didn't wake up going, 'let me do the most evil thing I can do today'," said Will. "I think They woke up in the morning and using a twisted, backwards logic, set out to do what they thought was 'good'. Stuff like that just needs reprogramming.
In case you don't know how to analyze stuff like this, let's try it again. IF you re-read the statement without the patented knee-jerk PSD reaction, [let's do it together] you will find something altogether different and altogether reasonable. Here I will highlight the operative words that indicate context, tone and intent. Follow me on this:
Even Hitler didn't wake up going, 'let me do the most evil thing I can do today'," said Will. "I think he woke up in the morning and using a twisted, backwards logic, he set out to do what he thought was 'good'. Stuff like that just needs reprogramming.
Now who is the idiot who found a statement anywhere in this, where Will Smith said anything about Hitler being good? Dammit! It's not there. Nowhere!
So now we have a clue about why human beings cannot-for the life of themselves-live without stupid, backward logic disasters like war! For all the vaunted genius of the race, and I mean the 'human race'-Jews included-thinking things through before nuking babies, and other non-involved parties of these vile reactionary behaviors, is not a strong suite, especially of the people we give such power.
I think the JDL should review this and other ridiculous positions it takes on such matters. In this case you are definitely wrong, in many others your posture comes off dangerously strident, not only for people you fear but for your own self image. A woman who screams stridently that every man who speaks to her is sexually harassing her will soon be considered a candidate for the psyche ward.
You owe Will Smith an apology. You owe yourselves to adjust the tone, intensity and perceptive skills of an organization which relies on it's credibility to accomplish a very necessary and worthwhile function in our world. It would also help if you evolved into the Human Defense League, maybe even the Life Defense League.
Man will always be the last to see his own psychoses. But when they are righteously illuminated, he has the responsibility to himself and all affected, to get to the bottom of it and heal it. Happy New Year! Peace On Earth!
Evil always has a 'good' reason to do what it does. Whether it's blinding oneself to the deadly oppression of apartheid while enriching self trading in gold and diamonds, or justifying the displacement of people from land they've lived on for thousands of years with euphemisms like "Manifest Destiny" or "God's promise to Abraham" three thousand to five thousand years ago. The ultimate test of good or evil is really too simple for Jews, Arabs, Christian, Blacks, Hindus or anybody else to misconstrue. If what you do to another causes suffering, disease, displacement or death, you are creating evil for that person or group of people, even if you have convinced yourself of the rightness of it. No righteous person will ever believe that Yahweh, Allah, Buddha, or Christ condones the suffering of even one person at the hands of another. Even if God tells a righteous man to do evil to another, that man in his best judgment would question just what 'God' was talking to him and tell him to do his own dirty work.
The correctness of Will Smith's comment bear scrutiny in this very instance, where-because of a largely emotional response at best, a pathological, post-traumatic stress reaction at worst-the JDL is willing to ruin his career, boycott his films and otherwise cause him harm. Having said all this, let's try the same quote and exchange the appellation "Hitler with the appellation "JDL":
Even the "JDL" didn't wake up going, 'let me do the most evil thing I can do today'," said Will. "I think They woke up in the morning and using a twisted, backwards logic, set out to do what they thought was 'good'. Stuff like that just needs reprogramming.
In case you don't know how to analyze stuff like this, let's try it again. IF you re-read the statement without the patented knee-jerk PSD reaction, [let's do it together] you will find something altogether different and altogether reasonable. Here I will highlight the operative words that indicate context, tone and intent. Follow me on this:
Even Hitler didn't wake up going, 'let me do the most evil thing I can do today'," said Will. "I think he woke up in the morning and using a twisted, backwards logic, he set out to do what he thought was 'good'. Stuff like that just needs reprogramming.
Now who is the idiot who found a statement anywhere in this, where Will Smith said anything about Hitler being good? Dammit! It's not there. Nowhere!
So now we have a clue about why human beings cannot-for the life of themselves-live without stupid, backward logic disasters like war! For all the vaunted genius of the race, and I mean the 'human race'-Jews included-thinking things through before nuking babies, and other non-involved parties of these vile reactionary behaviors, is not a strong suite, especially of the people we give such power.
I think the JDL should review this and other ridiculous positions it takes on such matters. In this case you are definitely wrong, in many others your posture comes off dangerously strident, not only for people you fear but for your own self image. A woman who screams stridently that every man who speaks to her is sexually harassing her will soon be considered a candidate for the psyche ward.
You owe Will Smith an apology. You owe yourselves to adjust the tone, intensity and perceptive skills of an organization which relies on it's credibility to accomplish a very necessary and worthwhile function in our world. It would also help if you evolved into the Human Defense League, maybe even the Life Defense League.
Man will always be the last to see his own psychoses. But when they are righteously illuminated, he has the responsibility to himself and all affected, to get to the bottom of it and heal it. Happy New Year! Peace On Earth!
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Footnote: The JDL never responded. I guess silence is often a a trite submission to the power of truth.
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