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Vox Dementium est Vox Day
By Jeff Fecke | May 16, 2006
Doug Williams to Vox Day: Get off my side:
As conservative political fortunes waxed in recent years I allowed myself to forget the batshit-crazy wing, though it never really went away. Ol’ Voxy was there back in the day (i.e. the reactionary anti-Clinton pre-blog Internet age), and he’s there still.
Apologies to certain prominent conservative bloggers who may or may not have local radio shows who occasionally invite him on the air, but Vox has a bit of a record about this kind of thing. And it’s not really all that accurate to characterize someone who makes these kind of statements as “colorful” or “offbeat,” when terms like “hair-challenged Larouche-lite pipsqueak ” remain available.
And kind of to his credit, the Cap’n mostly repudiates him:
Unfortunately, while Bush underwhelmed the conservative movement on immigration tonight, certain conservatives busied themselves by embarrassing us much more than Bush could ever have. Vox Day, whose provocative writing I normally enjoy, has lost all sense of perspective in his latest effort at World Net Daily.
Pretty much once someone writes that hey, the Nazis had some good ideas, their work is no longer enjoyable, except possibly to mock.
At any rate, Ted “Theodore” Beale now advocates simply paying Americans to turn in illegals, and is taking pains to say that he didn’t write what he actually wrote. Too late, Vox. You write about how efficiently the Nazis “deported” six million Jews, you pretty much prove yourself to be objectively evil. You can’t unring a bell, and you can’t unstupid stupidity.
UPDATE: Love this quote from James Joyner:
Can one learn positive lessons from the Nazis? Sure. The Interstate Highway System, for example, is a great thing. Cheap economy cars for the working classes? Brilliant! Ways to round up millions of undesirables? Not so much.
Heh-deedly.
Topics: Horribly Wrong, Immigration, Ted 'Theodore' Beale | 5 Comments »
May 16th, 2006 at 9:11 am
But Vox is a member of MENSA. That means he is SMART. Don’t you get it? That means that whatever he says is right and the rest of us with “double-digit IQs” (his words) is foolish, ignorant, uninformed, and just plain stoopid.
I would bet money that my IQ is higher than Vox’s, but I fail to see how that makes me more politically savvy than anyone else. Maybe I missed the memo that Vox obviously got, the one that says admission into Mensa qualifies a person to make sweeping generalizations and obnoxious statements and then, when criticized, retort simply, “MENSA MENSA MENSA.”
And really, implying that the Nazis had some good ideas is not exactly Mensa material. How stoopid can one person be?
May 16th, 2006 at 12:24 pm
OK, I must amend my previous comment, because as a few other bloggers have observed, the Nazis DID have SOME good ideas (highways, etc.). What I should have written was “implying that the Nazis had some good ideas about ‘deportation’ of human beings is not exactly Mensa material.”
May 16th, 2006 at 2:25 pm
Precisely. ;)
Though I’ve found people who actually join Mensa (as opposed to simply being smart enough to) are usually arrogant schmucks. Vox Day is practically a poster child.
May 16th, 2006 at 7:44 pm
Joining Mensa also proves you are gullible enough to pay money just to say you’re smart (and also be viewed as an arrogan schmuck).