Nice rant about that idiot Stein.
Expelled: Ben Stein's Fall from Disgrace... to... Something Even Lower
Excerpt:
"...in his new movie denouncing Big Science's mean, bossy, and totally unfair bias against magical thinking, Stein actually walks through the remains of Dachau concentration camp as he asserts that Nazism would not have been possible without Darwin.
I know! That's exactly what I said! Yeah, and then I did that, too. And it still hurts.
I mean, the historical ignorance he displays, his dismissal of centuries of European anti-Semitism, his blindness to the role of religion in genocides of peoples long before Darwin was even a twinkle in a lucky zygote's chromosomes - these all betray the numbskullery of the notion of blaming the Holocaust on Darwin. But it's the hypocrisy of Ben Stein, like that of his hero Nixon calling the murdered students at Kent State "thugs," that makes the whole thing so breathtaking, heartbreaking and mind-blowing.
This man, this Ben Stein, who invokes American-style Volkische moral purity, pretending support for the earning class while favoring economic policies rewarding the ruling class at the expense of his vaunted "heartland," who impugns the patriotism of those who dare question the noble intent of our leaders, who sneers at intellectual "elites," this Ben Stein who champions a psuedo-scientific, politically oriented narrative of creation that would have made Himmler proud - can there be any doubt that Ben Stein, had he been born a German gentile, would have been a spokesman for National Socialism? I don't think anyone with a grasp of how academia, particularly science (particularly medicine), was taken over by quacks, politicos and party-line liars in the Germany of the 1930s can doubt it.
You may say it's rude to point it out, but I'm not the one who stomped all over Dachau calling Darwin a Nazi. And I'm not calling Ben Stein a Nazi. All I'm saying is: had he had the opportunity, he would have been a wholehearted Nazi supporter. All his current public positions indicate the validity of such an assessment. And he wouldn't have had to believe in Darwinian evolution to be one, either. All he would have had to believe, or say he believed, was that Germany and the purity of its traditions were in danger from an internal elitist liberal enemy.
See? Then he could go on to say that, in academia, the liberal elites, tainted with deranged or at best biased and totally unfair intellectual sophistry, were stealing jobs from more deserving scientists with wholesome beliefs. That the scientists with all the good ideas had been, in effect, Expelled from the scientific profession by a cabal of deceivers who control scientific knowledge.
All Ben Stein would have had to say to support the Nazis back then is what he's saying right now.
Shut up, Godwin.
Just because George W. Bush won't be in office next year doesn't mean we've dodged the bullet of a white Christian supremacist dictatorship. We are not out of the woods yet, my darlings. That a man, let alone a Jew, could, without shame, walk on the graves of Holocaust victims and claim the theory of evolution was at fault, let alone a man whose nationalism, social darwinism (which is not Darwinism, by the way), anti-intellectualism, and disregard for the truth are beyond doubt - it's like some ghastly executioner's joke. If the message of Expelled weren't being taken seriously by a religio-political movement that has already caused two presidential elections to end in disaster, it would be merely obnoxious. Instead, it's chilling.
Can he sink any lower? Never underestimate the depths of degradation a Ben Stein might sound. My money's on Ben Stein to be the first human being to reach the Earth's core.
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