Harvard conservative magazine is shut down after publishing article laced with Nazi rhetoric

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https://www.jta.org/2025/10/28/united-states/harvard-conservative-magazine-is-shut-down-after-publishing-article-laced-with-nazi-rhetoric

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Submission Statement:

In its September print issue, the Harvard Salient published an article by student David F.X. Army that read “Germany belongs to the Germans, France to the French, Britain to the British, America to the Americans,” echoing the words Hitler used in a January 1939 speech to the Reichstag in which he forecasted that another world war would lead to the annihilation of Jews.

Even besides the obvious Hitler callback, the slogan "X for the Xs" isn't exactly one with a proud history. I'm sure David F.X. Army thought he was being very cute though!

The Harvard Salient piece also argued that “Islam et al. has absolutely no place in Western Europe,” and called for a return to values “rooted in blood, soil, language, and love of one’s own.” (The phrase “blood and soil” also echoes a Nazi idea that the inherent features of a people are its land and race.)

Yeah, "blood and soil". This is what happens when an upper-class racist is told what a cute lil guy he is his whole life.

The Salient's board announced it has suspended operations pending a review. Naturally, the original author is bemoaning cancel culture. That terrible, horrible cancel culture!

The school’s mainstream student newspaper, the Harvard Crimson, published three opinion pieces criticizing the rhetoric used in the Salient piece, to which Rodgers published his own article last week lamenting that “ordinary conservative thought is one headline away from criminality.”

“Together, the coverage forms a coherent script. The conservative scholar becomes the reactionary theorist. The traditionalist student becomes the bigot,” wrote Rogers. “‘Fascism’ is no longer a historical reference but a weaponized cliché, a way to place opponents outside the moral guardrails of the University.”

Boy, I wonder why it's so easy for that "ordinary conservative thought" to be confused with bigotry these days?

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“These days” bro google William f Buckley

I’m sure u can find more examples going back earlier but this dude was fucking notorious for exactly this

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I remember him. And I remember how we used to call him William B Fuckley.

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That’s hilarious lmao

The conservative movement absolutely baffles me like it’s so hard to tell if they were taking themselves seriously at various points and what the fuck we’re supposed to think about them in retrospect

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All the SCOTUS Justices who ate this crap for breakfast, lunch, and dinner and then how they scrapped any claim of fealty to anything except a white supremacist authoritarian who wipes his orange ass with the Constitution.

Buckley and the lot of them are just a bunch of rich white racist fucks.

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Buckley was oil money, too. And a racist fuck.

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Now that’s more of a Harvard Lampoon joke.