Friday, January 21, 2011

Exactly? Do You Know What That Word Means?

utnereader:    “Barack Obama won’t show us his birth certificate,” says Steve, a  Connecticut resident and small-business owner, while he’s shoveling his  walk. “He’s a Muslim terrorist. And you know what really bothers me? He  is doing exactly what Hitler did.”  A hardworking fellow and family man in a postindustrial factory town of a  blue state, Steve does not come across as fanatical. Yet his adherence  to raw belief—a position unassailable by factual counter-data—is more  than an inherently dangerous American mind-set. It is a deadly challenge  to the aim of humanism.

utnereader:

“Barack Obama won’t show us his birth certificate,” says Steve, a Connecticut resident and small-business owner, while he’s shoveling his walk. “He’s a Muslim terrorist. And you know what really bothers me? He is doing exactly what Hitler did.”

A hardworking fellow and family man in a postindustrial factory town of a blue state, Steve does not come across as fanatical. Yet his adherence to raw belief—a position unassailable by factual counter-data—is more than an inherently dangerous American mind-set. It is a deadly challenge to the aim of humanism.

Exactly what Hitler did? No hyperbole here. Proceed.

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