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...article that, thankfully, has received considerable attention, the Concerned Women for America (CWA) have the audacity to compare Kinsey to a Nazi criminal. Robert Knight, director of the CWA’s Culture & Family Institute, told the Associated Press that “instead of being lionized, Kinsey’s proper place is with Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele or your average Hollywood horror flick mad scientist.” Scientist? Absolutely. But practitioner and organizer of systematic torture? Absolutely...
Mengele was the Nazi doctor who conducted horrific experiments during the Holocaust. His abuse of twins, pregnant women and other prisoners is considered torture—not science. The CWA’s comparison is not only fundamentally and pathetically untrue, it’s blatantly offensive and, frankly, stupid. An apology issued later does little to counteract the offensive idiocy inherent in the comparison. In the context of public debate over the movie, this sort of justification shows us just how misinformed the anti-Kinsey intellect...
...that abstinence is the only method that is 100 percent effective in protecting from pregnancy and specific sexually transmitted diseases? Apparently the ACLU needs to hire stronger fact-checkers before cranking out inaccurate press releases.” Fact-checking lectures from the people who compared Kinsey to a Nazi? I don’t think so. The CWA does have one valid point: Abstinence is indeed the only 100 percent effective method of safe sex. They neglected to mention, however, that Mississippi and Texas, two states that overwhelmingly supported Bush and his sexually repressive agenda, have...
Summers told donors that he takes “some satisfaction” in the fact that campus anti-Israel divestment movements have lost momentum since 2002. But he said that when comparisons are drawn between Israel and Nazi Germany or apartheid South Africa, “something wrong is happening. And this is why I chose the words anti-Semitic to address proposals for the large-scale divestiture of companies doing business in Israel...
Some signers of the divestment petition also said that comparisons between Israel, apartheid South Africa, and even Nazi Germany, are perfectly legitimate...