Beck Accuses Jewish Social Justice Worker Of Advocating A New Holocaust

[Joanne98]

In a Washington Post op-ed last month, Simon Greer — the president and CEO of Jewish Funds for Justice, an organization that helps people achieve social and economic security by investing in healthy neighborhoods — bluntly rebuked Glenn Beck for his war against social justice.

“Mr. Beck, you are a con man and America is not buying it,” Greer wrote. “When churches, synagogues, mosques, and other houses of worship across this country advocate for social justice, advocate for the common good, advocate for America, they, and we, walk in God’s path.”

Yesterday on his radio station, Beck responded the only way he knows how — with hyperbolic, extreme rhetoric referencing Nazi imagery. Beck said that Greer’s advocacy for the common good and social justice “leads to death camps.” “A Jew, of all people, should know that,” Beck added. “This is exactly the kind of talk that led to the death camps in Germany.” (Media Matters has the audio.)

After hearing Beck’s radical rant, Greer responded with this statement yesterday afternoon:

Glenn Beck has a history of recklessly invoking Nazi Germany and the Holocaust in order to advance his political agenda. But never before has Beck accused Jews – including survivors of the Holocaust and their children and grandchildren – of paving the way for fascism. Through his comments, Beck has demonstrated that he has no idea what leads to fascism. Jews and others, who were victims of the Holocaust, do not have the luxury of his ignorance.

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/05/29/beck-jewish-death-camps/

Nazi tourettes syndrome

[KharmaTrain]

1. Goebbels Would Be Proud...

Had Dreck been around in the 30s, he'd be chirping how great Hitler was for curbing inflation, making the country "safe" and rooting out the evil "commines". He'd be part of the propaganda machine.

It's an insult to my relatives who perished in the Holocoust to hear a shitstain like this one attempt to rail against "social justice"...had he had to wear a Yellow Star and have a tatoo branded on him, he'd sure have a different opinion.

This shitstain, like many on the right, throw around words and "symbolism" with little concern to their true context and only to incite and draw attention to themselves. Interesting that since Dreck began this "social justice" kick his viewership has dropped like a rock.

[applegrove]

2. "luxury of his ignorance" says it all.