German economics expert compares bank managers to persecuted Jews

[Hannah Bell]

..In an interview in the Monday edition of the Berlin newspaper Tagesspiegel, the Munich-based economics professor Hans-Werner Sinn compared the current widespread criticism of bank managers with the persecution of Jews under the Nazis.

Sinn told the paper, “In every crisis there is an attempt to identify those guilty, for scapegoats.” In the world economic crisis of 1929, he said, “It was the Jews in Germany, today it is the managers.”<<

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/oct2008/bank-o29.shtml

[rockymountaindem]

1. Honestly, people, stop doing this

When you hear yourself starting to talk about any of the following words as a means of making an analogy: "Hitler" "Holocaust" "Germany" "1930s" and "Jews", pause for a minute. Think, "am I going to sound like an idiot if I finish making this analogy?" You might be surprised at the answer!

[Fumesucker]

3. If only there were some convenient, shorthand way to remind people of this.

That would be tres kewl..

[icnorth]

2. Another professional bs'r crawls out into the sunlight. n/t

[Hawkowl]

4. Are we confiscating their assets yet?

Somebody should ask this clown if any bankers have had their gold fillings removed right before their were executed. Stupid fuck.

[Hannah Bell]

5. if only we were.