Screw the Muslims: I'm offended by our (by which I mean the West's) pandering to the Whining Jew and his endless complaints. So six million of them died. And? It's no more than one incident in the pogrom-ridden history of a people that have been hated and despised wherever they have gone throughout their history.
As for the Holocaust being somehow different because it was the first instance of the application of industrial principle to the production of mass death - it's worthy of note only as a graphic example of the amorality of capitalism, industrialism, and market societies in general.
We've been killing each other ever since we learned to pick up rocks, and we've been trying to make the process as efficient as possible ever since we learned to think in such terms.
| This because, of course, in a socialist society where liberalism has run amok for years, no one should EVER feel excluded or be offended for any reason whatsoever. |
Only someone who has never lived in Britain and has the most meagre acquaintance with that country and its history, could possibly refer to it as a socialist society. Certain aspects of British society, such as its health care system, are socialised to a degree - and that degree has shrunk in its extent from the accession of Margaret Thatcher to its present limited extent under Blair.
In order to make itself re-electable in the aftermath of Thatcher, the Labour Party has consistently and relentlessly denied its socialist origins (it began as an offshoot of the Union movement) to become what it has under Blair, a middle-of-the-road centrist party dedicated to wooing the middle-classes and their interests while retaining (some) of the rhetoric (which Blair moves ever further from - a process certain to continue under Brown, should he ever succeed Blair) of its socialist past.
That this process has not been entirely successful with the British public is illustrated by the fact that for the first time since the Winter of Discontent in the early seventies there are signs of resurgence within the Union movement in Britain and of its growing resistance to the on-going betrayal of its principles by the Labour Party.
Britain has never been a Socialist State: certain aspects of its economy were at one time socialised, no more. It remains what it has been for most of the last four hundred years - a Liberal (in the old sense of the word) political economy in which economic activity is meant to be subject to Adam Smith's 'Guiding Hand'.
As to your comment that 'liberalism' runs amok in Britain, you again betray your ignorance. Liberalism, as it was originally formulated by thinkers such as Thomas Hobbes and John Locke, was a philosophical doctrine advocating liberty of the individual and a State confined to the maintenance of domestic peace and the deterrence of foreign enemies. Over the last four hundred years it has developed into what you would call (with equal inaccuracy) Conservatism, ecompassing among other things (such as the theory of the individual) free trade and the concept of the nation state.
What's referred to as 'liberalism' here is in fact socialism made demented by too much money, too little realism, and an almost total lack of political imagination. American liberals are in fact socialists. American conservatives are merely republicans with a taste for religious demagoguery. If any nation can be accused of harboring socialism run mad it is America, not Britain.
