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Monday, January 17, 2005Racing from behind the curve...The TurkeyBlog would like to join the chorus of voices that thinks banning Nazi symbols in response to Prince Harry's latest antics is stupid. It's just a matter of time before the Holocaust deniers get their most fervent wish: all useful reminders of Germany's Nazi past pushed into dark corners where only "hysterical Jews" notice them at all. If history is any suggestion, we're somewhere between 20 and 50 years to the next serious pogrom. At which point the young will respond to a handful of cries of "Never again!" with their response to almost everything: "Never what again?" If the word "pogrom" isn't familiar to you, you can chalk yourself as one of many successes for Germany's "move on" program. Bottom line: Nazi paraphernalia should be widely seen, circulated, demonized and - as happened with a fair share of delightful and not so delightful films in the not so distant past - ridiculed. In this vein, Prince Harry performed a valuable public service in making an ass of himself. If only the tastelessness of European policymakers were so transparent. Wilde said: The nineteenth century dislike of realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass.Somewhere in there lies the psychological foundations for a twenty-first century Europe that cannot tolerate Prince Harry's uniform, but which overlooks the French diplomat who denounced Israel as "a shitty little country." But the whole enterprise has by now turned into a psychic mishmash too foul and disordered even to achieve the coherence of paradox. 
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