separating art from artist is always awkward. Refuse to listen to Wagner because he was anti-semitic? Refuse to look at a Caravaggio painting because he was a murderous thug? Refuse to watch a Riefenstahl film because she was a Nazi? In fact, Riefenstahl's films of the Olympics is imitated all the time, every time a camera glides over an athlete's body: she...
probably because most people don't care. The person from UKIP was incredibly stupid to think that praising hitler's good points in any context is ever a good idea, and won't have repercussions
I agree with blackcat here. It was a serious error of judgement for this idiot to even mention Hitler. Another lack of judgement from a Party that we have come to expect this sort of thing from.
/// It was a serious error of judgement for this idiot to even mention Hitler. Another lack of judgement from a Party that we have come to expect this sort of thing from. ///
Ah yes the usual insults from the frightened left, who would wish to see an end to freedom of speech, unless of course they themselves approve.
Hitler and Churchill were both brilliant orators. I think we should acknowledge that. On the other hand it's dangerous politically to go near "Hitler was good at ____". Rightly or wrongly, it's too toxic to be touched in that context. Academics, on the other hand, are, or at least should be, free to praise his good points.
a very good orator. Watching Triumph of the Will, it wasn't as tub-thumping or aggressive as you might expect, it was more stirring up resentment whining about how unfair other countries are, doing our once-great nation down...
A bit like life in the AB News section in some ways.
Jim, I wonder how good Churchill was, at least at "public" speaking. I have no idea if he could have held a crowd as Hitler did; his business was speaking in parliament. (For rebroadcasting over the radio, some of these speeches were actually rerecorded by actors, I believe.)
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