Frequent Fox News contributor, psychologist, and sociopath Dr. Keith Ablow, known mostly for regular appearances on the network to promote his theories that the current sitting president does not love America but instead holds an affinity for America's enemies, took to FoxNews.com this weekend to defend Dr. Ben Carson's lunatic theories on why gun control led to Hitler and the Holocaust. Because Dr. Keith Ablow is a monster, his own effort is far, far worse.
It's a column explaining why the Anti-Defamation League is wrong about Hitler and the Holocaust and Dr. Ben Carson, Ablow's preferred candidate, is right. In it, Ablow repeats longtime tropes of far-right militia movements and white supremacists to defend gun ownership, and specifically the obligation of patriots to own guns in order to someday overthrow an American government they believe to be oppressive or civilians allied with that government, with the claim that Germany's Jews were at least partially culpable for their own deaths at the hands of the Nazis because they had "surrendered the demonstrated intention" to resist.
It is execrable.
The mindset that Jews surrendered with their guns is far more important than the hardware they turned over: They surrendered the demonstrated intention, at all costs, to resist being deprived of liberty. If Jews in Germany had more actively resisted the Nazi party or the Nazi regime and had diagnosed it as a malignant and deadly cancer from the start, there would, indeed, have been a chance for the people of that country and the world to be moved to action by their bold refusal to be enslaved.
Even those with only the shallowest knowledge of history ought to be aware that such instances of resistance
did take place, and were put down in expectedly horrific fashion. Revolts took place even in the camps
themselves, and that is about all the history we shall toss at Ablow's rancid little effort, because it is very clear Ablow does not give a damn.
Granted, hindsight is 20/20. But it turns out it was a bad idea for any Jew to have turned over a gun. It was a bad idea for any Jew to have boarded a train. It was a bad idea for any Jew to have passed through a gate into a camp. It was a bad idea for any Jew to do any work at any such camp. It was a bad idea for any Jew to not attempt to crush the skull or scratch out the eyes of any Nazi who turned his back for one moment. And every bullet that would have been fired into a Nazi coming to a doorway to confiscate a gun from a Jew would have been a sacred bullet.
To me, [Anti-Defamation League Director] Jonathan Greenblatt seems to have forgotten those iconic words, “Never Again.” Thank God that men like Ben Carson remind us of them.
I will let someone else on the planet parse that out, but I will not. It seems to speak for itself. Head below the fold for even more.
Ablow concludes his effort with, of course, restating the primary purpose of the column. All of this fuss about what the Jews Should Have Done to stop Hitler and the entire Third Reich from murdering them is, as it is for every other far-right militia advocate that propagates it, meant to represent the imminent oppression of the American far-right, and thereby their own right to prepare for murdering their declared oppressors. Because that is who really needs protection from the American government today: Conservative Christians.
The wisest answer to a government that insists its citizens disarm is, “Over my dead body.” It would seem to be the end of any discussion and the beginning of active, heroic resistance. Because it is very hard to imagine that disempowering citizens by having them render themselves defenseless can lead to anything good. It is very likely a sign that the culture has fallen ill and that an epidemic of enslavement of one kind or another is on the horizon.
You will note the word
enslavement, there. Dr. Ben Carson has famously declared that Obamacare is "worse than slavery"; Dr. Keith Ablow, who supports Ben Carson and has fundraised for him, opines that an
active, heroic and most importantly
armed resistance is necessary to prevent
enslavement.
Now is the bit where we ask what Fox News, the media powerhouse, intends to do in response to one of their heavily promoted pundits opining about how the Jews "surrendered" too easily to Hitler. We expect, of course, nothing. The man already has appeared on air countless times opining on how the sitting president is taking steps to intentionally undermine America; suggesting that he and his fellow spittle-flecked yahoos may need to start shooting people soon is, again, part of his bit; the bit about chastising the Jewish people for "surrendering" to Hitler seems piss in the wind compared to all that.
Just as it takes a herculean effort for white supremacist voices to be tossed from the still obsessed-with-black-Americans National Review, it is entirely unclear whether an actual column blaming Jews for "surrendering" to and not "actively resisting" the German Nazis is enough for America's largest right-wing media company to pry this particular lunatic from their teat.