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[Rev. Rye]

More of scoobies loony toon logic

Personally, I like to call it Kaufman Logic. Not after Andy, after Theodore. Don't  know who Theodore Kaufman was? He wrote a little book called Germany Must Perish! The content was pretty much what you'd expect. It was self-published in 1941 in America just before they entered The War, and reception in his native land was best described as bemusement, at least when it wasn't ignored entirely.

In Germany, on the other hand, it was widely infamous, heavily publicised by Julius Streicher (who actually cited it as an excuse to explain his venomous tenure with Die Sturmer during the Nuremberg Trial), Goebbels cited it as an example of why anything they did to Americans and Jews was justifiable as self-preservation (and privately said "Had he written this book for us, he could not have made it any better."), it became widely taught as an example of "why we fight" in the classrooms and elsewhere, and even when they finally made the infamous "Yellow star" mandatory for all Jews in September 1941 (yes, it really took that long) they put out a flyer for the "Aryans" tying the people wearing them with Kaufman's ideas.

All this over a crank whose ideas, in a sane world, would be relegated to the ideological side shows of political thought (Rationalwiki, perhaps). But, like the Nazis holding up Theodore Kaufman as a shining example of everyone being out to get them when he was little  more than an idiot with access to a printing press, Scooby here seems convinced that it's a perfectly logical conclusion to take the most out-there aspects of the left and conflate them with everything to the left of the ever-increasingly-right-wing Republican Party, as if it's all the same.

Also, I can't help but notice that that Communist Party website he linked to doesn't seem to have done much in the past four years except maybe reblog essays by other people on Facebook. Could it be that the Communist Party actually isn't that relevant these days?