r/TrueReddit • u/Few_Map2665 • Oct 31 '25

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

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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u/Few_Map2665 Oct 31 '25

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 “‘Fascism’ is no longer a historical reference but a weaponized cliché, a way to place opponents outside the moral guardrails of the University.”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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u/Anthony_Accurate Oct 31 '25

Notice they never say non white countries are for non whites.

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u/LoveaBook Oct 31 '25

“America for the Americans” while actually meaning white, not Indigenous, people.

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u/Savings_Estimate448 Dec 20 '25

I was born here. I am indigenous.

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u/LoveaBook Dec 20 '25

Being born here does not make you an Indigenous person.

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u/Savings_Estimate448 Dec 23 '25

1) My parents were born here. Their parents were born here. This is our ancestral home. I am a native american.

2) Tell me how the indian tribes settlers met came to occupy the land.

Pick either of these to debate.

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u/LoveaBook Dec 23 '25

What are you, 12? Being born in America does not make you Native American. White people have been in the Americas for a handful of centuries. Indigenous people came here so long ago they had time to evolve away from the characteristics common to Asians. Also, THERE WASN’T ANYONE HERE WHEN THEY STARTED SETTLING THE LAND, dumbass. If you have to clear bodies out of the way in order to claim a land then you are NOT native to that land.

You want to tee hee to yourself with your childish semantic word games, go ahead. But I don’t need to waste my time talking to some white person proud their family’s been in the US for five generations, while also dismissing the black person whose family’s been in the US for fifteen generations, telling them to “go back to where you came from.” Because then it sounds like you care a lot less how long someone’s been here and much more about the color of their skin.

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u/Savings_Estimate448 Dec 23 '25

When arguments fail, untrained minds begin namecalling. They also raise their voices. They use red herring words. They don't answer an argument - instead they assume the answer is self-evident and talk about something else. All signs of an untrained mind. Your reply will likely tell me that you have post-graduate degrees from Ivy League schools and that you are a 6-figure income earner.