Wesley R. Elsberry
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Intelligent Design advocates often deploy very negative analogies concerning their critics. Such analogies have included things like the former Soviet regime, McCarthyites, and Nazis.
This thread is for documenting specific instances where ID advocates engage in political speech at the expense of their critics.
I'll start things off with a recent example.
Mark Hartwig: Compares Darwinists to Nazis
Mark Hartwig has taken over the "Weekly Wedge Update". In his column for May 5, 2002, Hartwig makes an analogy between "Darwinists" and the Nazi oppressors of Czechoslovakia.
| Quote | The intimidation tactics, however, signal something important about Darwinists. That "something" was explained in an insightful little piece by one A.J. Obrdlik. Published in 1942, it was a study of "gallows humor" in Czechoslovakia during the Nazi occupation. In that article, Obrdlik made a very keen observation:
Gallows humor is a reliable index of the morale of the oppressed whereas the reaction to it on the part of the oppressors tells a long story about the actual strength of the dictators: If they can afford to ignore it, they are strong; if they react wildly with anger, striking their victims with severe reprisals and punishment, they are not sure of themselves, no matter how much they display their might on the surface.
With the growing success of the Wedge, I'm sure we're going to see a lot more of this stuff. But Darwinist tactics will become a lot less intimidating as people realize that they signify not strength but panic. |
Edited by Wesley R. Elsberry on May 25 2002,10:18
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