And while we're on the subject of fascism.....

The image above looks like something one would expect to see in a modern American version of Der Stürmer, but it actually appeared on a liberal blog within the last few weeks.  (I'm not going to say which blog because this isn't about singling out a particular individual.  It's an issue that crops up on a number of liberal blogs from time to time.)

Looking at a thing like this, I can only conclude that some people simply lack any historical sense for the precedent it immediately evokes -- the last time imagery like this was used to stoke the suspicions of another nation that those people were manipulating and exploiting them.  Or maybe there's something worse going on.  When writers use the most inflammatory rhetoric to condemn the only Jewish state in the Middle East for defending itself against terrorism (while going to almost absurd lengths to minimize civilian casualties), but have rarely or never said a word about the vastly greater atrocities of the Asad or Saddam regimes or of the Iranian theocracy or even of the Saudis or Dâ'ish, I have every right to suspect that it's the people and not the actions that are really being condemned.

Well, I do have historical sense, and when I see this kind of thing I'm going to call it out for what it is.  So should you.