January 29, 2004

Metaphors for Dummies

If you read a story, say, about a group of homosexuals that defaced a church sign with shiny, happy stickers saying "Honor Diversity," and you were searching for the perfect metaphor for their actions, what would you choose?

Why, of course, you'd do just what Mark Shea does and call them "brownshirts."

You remember the brownshirts right? Those friendly folks from Nazi Germany, known far and wide for putting up stickers urging acceptance of others, right? Man, I wonder what those Jews were complaining about when Kristallnacht was really just a bunch of militant National Socialists putting up pretty stickers! They sure do whine, those Jews!

I mean, surely this Nazi poster and this sticker are comparable!

Of course, I'm kidding. The brownshirts were violent thugs who went about murdering Hitler's opponents and causing the Jews to live in fear (one which was, sadly, well-founded). Yet, Mark continues in his avowed tradition of insulting the memory of those who truly suffered at the hands of the brownshirts with such absurd comparisons.

As I said in the comments at Mark's site, does this have something to do with the Jews nailing Jesus up? I'm not sure what else can explain such callous disregard for history.

Yup, let's trivialize this, this, this, and this a little more, shall we?

Maybe I can write an offensive post comparing the Church's cover-up of priests playing "touch the weenie" with the German effort to hide the fact of the extermination camps from the world!

(Equally amusing is Fr. Stanely's assertion that I want to control Mark and his writing; apparently he's unaware that freedom of speech includes the freedom to criticize the speech of others - or maybe he thinks I have Evil Atheist Telekinetic Keyboard Control and can make Mark write what I like!)

Update: Janus Online expands upon what I've written.