This Week's Column: Twerking Twerp Is Holocaust Derp
A moron who manages to be destructive across disciplines. Impressive!
As you know, I enjoy providing “extras” to my subscribers to accompany each Takimag column. But before you read the extras, read the column! Here it is, about a dumbass who managed to distort Holocaust history AND cock up GOP politics with the dexterity of a chimp trying to juggle.
“Gimme Yo Cats, Bitch!”
This Ehlinger clown and his followers remind me of Kera, my porn girl. Kera had spent her rural Nebrasky youth stomping through dirt and doing drugs, and occasionally stomping through drugs and doing dirt (Dirt McGuggins, the local redneck she’d often blow).
Kera spent half her teen years in juvie, and when I met her she’d just turned 21, ready to move to the BIG CITY and live like a cultured swell.
So we’d go out to nice clubs, places with live music…totally different scene from Hoggfuck NE, where the only live music was when the jug band would do meth and play Pop Goes the Weasel as old Clem danced a jig at Hootenanny Holler.
And the thing I found oddly charming about Kera was that because she’d never had any experience with music back home, everything she heard at the clubs was new to her. From Motown to classic rock to 80s synth, she was hearing it for the first time. We’d often go see my friend Jimmy, former bandmate of Ike and Tina, and Kera’d be like “this Ike guy’s music sounds AMAZING! Can Jimmy introduce us?”
I taught her to sing “What a Wonderful World” with me on long car trips. One night we met Quincy Jones, and I whispered to Kera “he’s worked with Louis Armstrong,” and she actually asked him if they’re still in touch.
She had no idea the timeline of music. As far as she knew, Joplin, Bonham, Gaye, Wilson, were up-and-comers, and Morrissey, Smith, and Kraftwerk were rising stars. And I remember thinking how great it would be if, just for one night, I could discover my favorite music anew…to once more experience the thrill of hearing it for the first time.
In that way, I envied her.
Kera’s ignorance was endearing, because she was a kid, and purdy, and her lack of knowledge was inconsequential.
But this Ladd Ehlinger dumbass…he’s like Kera, but his ignorance is about the Holocaust, and it empowers deniers. That is not charming. That’s malevolent.
Conflating the labor/penal camps with the extermination camps plays right into the hands of deniers. Yet it’s the favorite pastime of (predominantly American) ignoramuses like Ehlinger, who simply refuse to learn history, and who are so stupid, so dim, so arrogant, they mistake their thoughts for evidence (a point I made in August regarding Candace Owens).
One of the most effective ways deniers rope in new cultists is by exploiting retards like Ehlinger who confuse places and timelines.
As I wrote in 2022:
Americans are born into superficial knowledge of the Holocaust the same way past generations were born into superficial knowledge of the Old West. Kids in 1950 would play cowboys and Indians, dreaming up detailed scenarios that were real enough to them, but completely disconnected from actual history.
“Bang-bang-bang! Do you give up, Geronimo?”
“Yes, I surrender, President Washington! I’ll stop attacking Fort Lasso. Now call off your tanks!”
But those kids didn’t grow up to push their made-up history as fact.
As you can see on Ehlinger’s Twitter, he’s out of his league. He posts about the labor/penal camps, and when one of his followers asks about the extermination camps, Ehlinger’s like “DERRRP!!! WHUDDRE YEW TALKIN’ ABOUT?”
The only effective way to fight denial is to know these differences. I’m not gonna call them nuances, because these are major fucking differences. If forced labor/penal camps were all the Germans had before and during the war, it would’ve been bad, of course, but not worse than anything the Soviets, British, or Japs did. What made the Holocaust unique, and thus worthy of study outside of “normal” wartime brutality, were the extermination camps. Treblinka, Belzec, Sobibor, Chelmno, the Ostland ghettoes, and the Einsatzgruppen. And Auschwitz to an extent, as it was not designed as an extermination camps, but exterminations did take place there.
So ignorant are Ehlinger’s friends that one of them complimented the shithead for “finding” that Eisenhower/Patton letter.
“Find?” Literally, it’s the most ubiquitous document in the field, in every museum, every exhibit brick-and-mortar or online.
But this is the world of Kera…a million Keras so ignorant, everything they see in 2024 is an exciting new “find.”
Children. Mental infants who won’t read books, because the world in their mind is more exciting. Their “dream historiography” engages them more than real history.
Like I said, with Kera it was charming. But these tards? Menaces. Fucking menaces to the field. As bad as deniers, and worse in a way, because they repudiate denial yet still assist in its growth.
That said, I want to be a helper not just a scolder. So to Ehlinger and any of his pals who end up here, behold your reading list. Take the time, read these FREE books, and you won’t find yourself acting the idiot on Twitter…or in mean ol’ Dave’s crosshairs.
Yad Vashem’s Documents on the Holocaust (contemporaneous documents): https://archive.org/details/documentsonholoc0000unse - (Update 8/20/24: Archive.org seems to have removed this borrow, so I’ve uploaded my own PDF here)
The Good Old Days (contemporaneous documents): https://archive.org/details/thegoodolddaysho0000unse - (1 hour or 14-day borrow)
Reitlinger’s 1953 masterwork The Final Solution (the complete history): https://archive.org/details/finalsolution00reit - (1 hour borrow only, but no limit on amount of borrows)
Wow, I inadvertently inspired a whole column! After reading it the imortal words of acting legend Roderick Toombs come to mind: "Don't throw rocks at someone holding a machine gun!" (If only the Pally Wallys had watched WWF growing up they would've learned that lesson).
Another good article.