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ck4829 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-11 12:09 PM
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Pamela Geller didn't scrub it in time... "Victims of shooting were mixed, not pure Norwegian"
Popular hate blogger Pam Geller has received scrutiny in recent days as the public became aware that the right-wing terrorist in Norway, Anders Behring Breivik, had praised her blog and thoroughly cited her writing in his political manifesto. After a number of blogs made the connection, as well as the New York Times, the Atlantic, and other major outlets, Geller became incensed and began lashing out at her critics.

In a post defending herself yesterday, Geller — who has called Obama “President Jihad” and claimed that Arab language classes are a plot to subvert the United States — reached a new low. Geller justifies Breivik’s attack on the Norwegian Labour Party summer youth camp because she says the camp is part of an anti-Israel “indoctrination training center.” She says the victims would have grown up to become “future leaders of the party responsible for flooding Norway with Muslims who refuse to assimilate, who commit major violence against Norwegian natives including violent gang rapes, with impunity, and who live on the dole.”

To get her point across, Geller posts a picture of the youth camp children Breivik targeted. The picture was taken on the Utøya island camp about 24 hours before Breivik killed over 30 children, so it is likely Geller is mocking many of the victims. Under the picture, Geller writes: “Note the faces which are more MIddle (sic) Eastern or mixed than pure Norwegian.”

UPDATE: Geller appears to have deleted the line about race mixing from her post. A screen shot of the post before the deletion can be found here.

http://thinkprogress.org/security/2011/08/01/284011/pam-geller-race-mixing-breivik-right/
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Dawson Leery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-11 12:11 PM
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1. The far right in America is endorsing this act of terrorism.
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Doctor_J Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-11 12:17 PM
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4. And we are also by doing nothing about it
Might as well face the fact that "all that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing", which is what we're doing
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marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-11 12:11 PM
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2. She is one hate-filled woman.
nt

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GodlessBiker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-11 12:11 PM
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3. Joseph Goebbels could not have said it better.
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Kolesar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-11 12:18 PM
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5. I am proud to say I trolled Geller's Youtube comments after the 2006 midterms
She was incoherent that night.
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Ikonoklast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-11 12:25 PM
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6. What a sad, little person.
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-11 12:30 PM
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8. So, when will Eric Cantor be forced to denounce Pammy?
Never? Is never a good time?

Compare and contrast how "controversial" statements by associates of Democratic office holders are immediately imputed to Democrats, such that Democrats must denounce their association or be politically dead. Cantor's association with the odious Ms. Geller will not even rise to the notice of the popular media, and if it does, it will be excused or justified on so many grounds that anyone mentioning it will be at greater risk for bringing it up than Cantor ever will for his actual association.
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Ikonoklast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-11 12:37 PM
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12. Denounce her?
Hahahahahaaaaa!!!!

Cantor wets his undies in delight when she spouts her bile.

If he had his way and thought he could get away with it, he'd get up in front of Congress and spout the very same odious hate-filled screeds.
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starroute Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-11 12:40 PM
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14. Pam Geller and another pal
This one is Geert Wilders, the Dutch politician whose party was praised by Breivik as the only "true" conservatives. (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/07/27/999681/-Congressman-Peter-King-And-Anders-Behring-Breivik-Have-Something-In-Common-They-Like-Geert-Wilders!?via=sidebar)



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RaleighNCDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-11 01:11 PM
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17. To be clear - this 'conservative' movement is, just like Nazism,
an INTERNATIONAL movement.

The Nazis were not purely German, or even purely Aryan. They had true believers in EVERY country they conquered, from Norway to North Africa, from France to Russia. They had like-minded followers in England and the US.

And this current 'conservative' movement is the same. The same ideology. The same mind set. The same people. People like Geller, Breivik and Wilders, sixty years ago, would have been the Quislings for the Nazis.
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Ikonoklast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-11 01:15 PM
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18. Amazing, isn't it?
Not so very long ago, a collaborator like Wilders would have sent Geller to the camps.
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Starbucks Anarchist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-11 02:47 PM
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20. She looks like a semi-literate Snooki.
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Leopolds Ghost Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-11 12:30 PM
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7. K+R for Importance. Someone get MSNBC, or someone, in the media to talk about this!
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Leopolds Ghost Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-11 12:31 PM
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9. It's not just that, according to the articles cited Brevik appears to have corresponded with her.
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-11 12:32 PM
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10. Send it to KO and Rachel
Rec
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atreides1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-11 12:34 PM
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11. This statement alone speaks volumes
Geller writes: “Note the faces which are more MIddle (sic) Eastern or mixed than pure Norwegian.”

After all, didn't the Germans also use certain racial traits to prove how some peoples were subhuman, like large noses, eyes being close together, body odor, and others things?

I won't use the term Nazi because the terminology police here will jump all over it, and offer reasons why her ideas aren't...so I'll just say German, which will probably piss off other people!!!

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Raksha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-11 03:03 PM
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21. I've been openly calling the teabaggers Nazis for a while now,
even if I haven't gotten around to it on DU until now. Nazism by my definition is a particular mindset that isn't necessarily linked to ethnic or racial profiling and it doesn't have to be anti-Semitic either, although it very often is. It's the belief that certain identifiable groups of people (varies by culture), just by their mere existence and/or promiximity, are so inherently, incurably evil that they constitute an existential threat to the dominant culture, and therefore one is justified in eliminating them.

More neo-Nazis are Islamophobic than anti-Semitic these days, although they are very often both.

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fishwax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-11 12:39 PM
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13. they never fail to find new ways to disgust
:puke:
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onpatrol98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-11 12:42 PM
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15. Sickening
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Justitia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-11 12:57 PM
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16. I will never understand right-wing Jews, the entire idea is mind-blowing.
Thank G_d, there is only about a dozen of them.
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Maru Kitteh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-11 02:38 PM
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19. K & R. Tea-Toddlers and their racist foundations need to be exposed. nt
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