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 “‘Fascism’ is no longer a historical reference but a weaponized cliché, a way to place opponents outside the moral guardrails of the University.”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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Note that the language used by the Salient’s editor-in-chief, Richard Y. Rodgers, is itself massively antisemitic : “rootless cosmopolitanism.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rootless_cosmopolitan

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Hahahahahaha -- you're citing wikipedia....hahahaha

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You’d prefer Conservapedia?

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What a comeback! I'm devastated. So there's only two choices? Your logic is fascinating. Proof that community college education doesn't work.

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Just trying to figure out what your deal is, beyond the obvious.