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Lefty Journalist Accuses Ukraine’s Zelensky of Nazi Sympathies in Bizarre Self-Owning Attack – Opinion

By Pluralist / March 18, 2022

German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once said, “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.” This isn’t just a casual observation by some DWEM; we see this play out daily in politics. It is what drives the whole “cancel culture” movement. People who set out to punish fellow citizens for having wrong thoughts end up being the worst kind of petty, vindictive, deserving-of-a-slow-and-painful-death monsters themselves. Those who constantly search for nazis are an exception to this rule. The nazis, while rare, are a rarity that seems to only exist in the minds of those who want to use them. They become pathetic morons in their quest for monsters.

For instance, remember the case of New Yorker “fact checker” Talia Lavin. Talia Lavin tried to portray ICE as a fascist organisation by claiming that a veteran with a Maltese tattoo on his elbow made him a Nazi.

One tweet can make it easy to New Yorker‘s professional fact-checker smeared Justin Gaertner, a combat-wounded war veteran and computer forensic analyst for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.

Lavin, the fact-checker professional, was quick to judge. She misused her platform. Amid the national media hysteria over President Donald Trump’s border-enforcement policies, Lavin derided a photo of Gaertner shared by ICE, which had spotlighted his work rescuing abused children. Scrutinizing his tattoos, she claimed an image on his left elbow was an Iron Cross — a symbol of valor commonly and erroneously linked to Nazis.

It spread like social media tuberculosis. A real-life white supremacist is employed by the jackboots of ICE, who are known to hate families and children.

Only it wasn’t an Iron Cross. It was a Maltese Cross, the symbol of double amputee Gaertner’s platoon in Afghanistan, Titan 2. After sustaining injuries to both his legs in an IED-clearing mission, he was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal for Combat Valor with Combat Valor. He then joined ICE to fight online child exploitation.

When actual military veterans, whom Lavin failed to consult before defaming Gaertner so glibly, pointed out that the image looked more like a Maltese Cross, Lavin deleted her original tweet “so as not to spread misinformation.”

Now we have a competitor in the “looking for nazis under my bed” category.

On Wednesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky gave a “virtual” address to Congress (see Zelensky Makes Appeal to Congress While Biden’s Response Is Sorely Lacking). It was well-received, to say the least, and probably went a long way towards mitigating Joey SoftServe’s ability to curb aid to Ukraine because of his inexplicable (except for the existence of Kompromat incriminating Hunter Biden and “the Big Guy” in the hands of Putin) subservience to Vladimir Putin.

Into the fray jumped a “journalist” who had previously and thankfully escaped my notice. Dan Cohen runs “MintPress.com.”

Cohen’s half-assed defense was that the “Azov” battalion that operates in the Donbas are well-known nazis and therefore a symbol actually not associated with the Nazi party (the use of the Maltese Cross by the German military considerably predates Nazi Germany) is a good reason to assume that Zelensky, a Jew, would be advertising his nazi sympathies to the world.

(I’m not going to get into an argument over the Azov battalion beyond noting that even if the very worst things said about them are true, they are about 900 men in a 200,000 man military, and now is not the time for Ukraine to start imposing woke-ism on who is defending that country.)

Seriously? The emblem on Zelensky’s t-shirt is the crest of the Ukrainian Army.

And it isn’t like the Maltese Cross, as a military symbol, is associated with armed forces noted for being either fascist or even vaguely right-wing. For example, it is the official symbol of Germany’s Luftwaffe.

It is easy to understand why Vladimir Putin’s allies dislike Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky (see We Need to Talk About This ‘Never Zelensky’ Thing.) This is a Russian dictator, who portrays himself as a masculine and virile leader.

The invasion of his smaller neighbouring state is ill-conceived and the army he leads looks as competent as Mussolini invaded Greece. The action results not only in the deaths of many Russians, but it also sanctions his nation. This reveals how childish his scheme to avoid sanctions. The opposition leader, a comedian who danced to Beyonce’s song in heels, is even more shocking.

The leader happens to also be an accomplished pianist as well as a skilled dancer.

Of course, you’d be feeling put out. Of course, you’d be searching for anything to denigrate him. But if you’re going to do that, you probably shouldn’t be using a convicted pedophile as your subject matter expert on the war in Ukraine.

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