What's The Difference Between Right Wing Bestseller D'Souza's Book and Mein Kampf?

[TomCADem]

The corporate media is once again soft pedaling the ramifications of Newt Gingrich's glowing endorsement of D'Souza's book, "The Roots of Obama's rage," which articulates themes about racial impacts on political idealogy that border upon plagiarism of Hitler's Mein Kampf.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/15/opinion/15dowd.html

Gingrich praised D’Souza’s article in Forbes, previewing an upcoming book called “The Roots of Obama’s Rage.”

Newt told The National Review Online that it was the “most profound insight I have read in the last six years about Barack Obama” and said D’Souza shows that the president “is so outside our comprehension” that you can only understand him “if you understand Kenyan, anticolonial behavior.”

Newt added: “This a person who is fundamentally out of touch with how the world works, who happened to have played a wonderful con, as a result of which he is now president.”

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“Our president is trapped in his father’s time machine,” D’Souza writes in Forbes, offering a genetic theory of ideology. “Incredibly, the U.S. is being ruled according to the dreams of a Luo tribesman of the 1950s. This philandering, inebriated African socialist, who raged against the world for denying him the realization of his anticolonial ambitions, is now setting the nation’s agenda through the reincarnation of his dreams in his son.”

Compare this with this discussion of Hitler's book Mein Kampf:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mein_Kampf

First published in 1925, Mein Kampf shows the ideas that crafted Hitler's historical grievances and ambitions for creating a New Order. Taken together with other sources, historians such as Professor Gunnar Heinsohn demonstrate that Hitler's plan for the Jews and Aryans alike was not confined to a racial conception but rather an ideological one. It was the propagation of "Jewish ideas" that Hitler targeted for extermination with relation to the destruction of their community and nation. Nearing the end of his reign, Hitler made such ideas clear in a correspondence with Martin Bormann on February 3, 1945:

“We use the term Jewish race merely for reasons of linguistic convenience, for in the real sense of the word, and from a genetic point of view, there is no Jewish race. ... The Jewish race is above all a community of the spirit. Spiritual race is of a more solid and more durable kind than natural race.”

His hatred for the "community of the spirit" connected with his conceptualization of what the Jewish people really stood for. But even his image of the Aryan race did not involve some kind of immutable purity, arguing that many factors, from wars to international trade, had perverted the purity of races that once existed in the past.<9> Hitler kept such ideas to private conversations and out of his public orations or texts, such as Mein Kampf, because he did not want to lose the support of certain racist groups. To Hitler, the problem in his time period lay in the ideas he attributed to the Jewish community. His correspondence with the future Nazi leader of Danzig, Hermann Rauschning, clearly shows the culpability of Jewish ideas in Hitler's historical framework.

[Turbineguy]

1. Obama is enraged?

I hadn't noticed. What are the signs?

[Swede]

3. He's frowning a lot more?

:shrug:

[Sinistrous]

2. The mental illness that is neoconservatism has progressed from

its chronic stage to the acute stage. Now the verbal flappings of Gingrich have the support of another pseudo-intellectual who has managed again to get into print. If you hadn't guessed, we owe our thanks for this swill to Regnery Press.

[TomCADem]

4. The Corporate Media Is Enabling This Open Appeal To Racism...

...by ignoring the obvious parallels between D'Souza's theories and those of the Nazis pushing the idea of ingrained racial superiority and inferiority.