Justice Clarence Thomas's megadonor friend collects Hitler memorabilia - report

[mysteryowl]

Source: Guardian/US

The Republican megadonor whose gifts to the supreme court justice Clarence Thomas have come under the spotlight has a private collection including a garden of statues of dictators, including Mussolini and Stalin; Nazi memorabilia; and paintings including two works by Adolf Hitler, the Washingtonian reported.

“I still can’t get over the collection of Nazi memorabilia,” the Washingtonian quoted an anonymous source as saying, regarding a visit to Harlan Crow’s Texas home. “It would have been helpful to have someone explain the significance of all the items. Without that context, you sort of just gasp when you walk into the room.”

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/08/clarence-thomas-supreme-court-harlan-crow-hitler-memorabilia

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Oh, but of course this is what the billionaire is into.

Puke!

[Blue Owl]

1. K&R for exposure

Wonder if the billionaire has added a statue of Diarrhea Donny to his Garden of Dictators….

[SouthernDem4ever]

2. Another disgusting human

There have been a lot of big rocks for them to crawl out from under.

[peppertree]

3. Admiration for Nazis is common among southern right-wingers

It was surprising when I first noticed it - but I suppose it shouldn't have been.

[Omaha Steve]

4. After a review by forum hosts, locking........

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[Botany]

5. I wonder if Clarence Thomas knows that if Harlan Crow is a Hitler follower that Hitler if Thomas ...

... was in Germany or occupied Europe during Hitler's time that Hitler would have had Thomas
rounded up and sent to one of his death camps?

[machoneman]

11. Methinks he's too stupid to think that deeply. In Nazi Germany, many a black jazzman...

...knew it was time to leave as the SS and even policemen started harassing musicians and singers in nightclubs. Jazz was popular with many until Hitler decried jazz as one of the West's degenerate followings. This in the 1930's. By the 1940's and up, black men were arrested, jailed and later exterminated as fraternization (i.e. fertilization) with the master race's white women was strictly forbidden.

Sound a lot like todays' Red states....TN, SD, TX, FL, AL, etc.

[Omaha Steve]

6. kick

[SallyHemmings]

7. I really don't know what Thomas

sees when he looks in a mirror.


Stand and wait for a cab without your spouse & he will quickly find out…..

[Zambero]

12. A useful idiot who has done quite well for himself

even though his "legacy" is already in the toilet.

[SouthernDem4ever]

17. Same with his wife

She cements herself in the hypocrite hall of fame as well.

[IronLionZion]

8. The 3rd Reich lasted longer than the confederacy

maybe racists should start claiming Nazi heritage and put up Hitler statues.

"You can't erase history"

[KS Toronado]

19. Racists sure like to fly the Nazi flag, statues are next.

[IronLionZion]

21. How would we learn history without statues?

They've been banning books and sanitizing history textbooks.

[UpInArms]

9. What is wrong with these people?

Why does everything they do go against humanity?

I fear for the future of the world because these are the people who have the most money and, in this era, money equals power.

[SouthernDem4ever]

18. What is stupid is the money people think they can control the situation

of which they are losing control very quickly. They won't be protected from anything at that point.

[llashram]

10. so much corruption

so much reverence for monsters. And thomas just walked through all that like a good ole' boy of the club that he is... what a schemiel...

[Bayard]

13. Birds of a feather,

Flock together.

[Novara]

14. Of course he does.

[usaf-vet]

15. A ex wife of Trump says he had a Nazi book on his bed side table.

[Bev54]

16. And did you know his brother is in the midst of human trafficking charges of underage girls

Also that bros is a friend of the spouse of another Royal who was accused of sexual exploitation of underage girls. After reading about the possibility of the Epstein pics and videos, it is a reminder what scum rich people use their money for such nefarious things. I now wonder if they were all friends.

I keep saying that 2023 is the year of reckoning and it seems we are starting to see exposure on many fronts.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/03/20/trammell-crow-jr-billionaire-linked-sarah-ferguson-accused-financing/

[Upthevibe]

20. Kick. n/t

[Martin68]

22. No wonder he likes Trump. Dump will be the latest addition to his Hall of Dictators.

[davsand]

23. Owning a specific book is nobody else's business.

Yes, I am fully aware that Hitler was a horrible entity (I refuse to call him a human because he was pure evil in my opinion.) My attitudes on this are rooted in years of selling books and following ABA (American Booksellers Association)and ALA (American Library Association) positions on the suppression and banning of books. If the content offends me, it probably needs defending. JUST like I am offended by the banning of books about any number of issues/subjects, I feel the reading or ownership of Hitler's book is not the business of anybody else.

Harlan Crow sounds like somebody I would probably not ever want to be around, or agree with, but I will absolutely defend his right to own whatever books he wants in his library. Censorship for any reason is never right.



Laura

[uncle ray]

24. that specific book was a signed copy of Mein Kampf.

you go ahead and withhold judgement, i'll feel free to judge the fuck out of him.

[Wuddles440]

25. +1!!!

[davsand]

27. CLEARLY Hitler was loathsome.

I doubt you will find anybody on DU that will seriously tell you anything else. I'd hope not, anyway.

The suppression of thought and the free discussion of ideas was part and parcel of the Nazi authoritarianism that took over Germany. Yeah, I GET that you hate Hitler. I do too. One of the many things I hate about Hitler and his followers was the burning of books and the incarceration of anyone that dared to contradict the message they were selling. They made political prisoners wear red stars in the camps, in fact.

Look, I'm not saying I think anybody needs to--or should--own an autographed copy of Hitler's book. I sure as hell wouldn't want it anywhere near my world. I am saying that I refuse to be like Hitler and his pals, and banning books was something they did. I own a few autographed books, and a couple of them were "challenged" in various locations because somebody disliked what was in those books. I've sold books I didn't personally think were worthy of publication. I absolutely had a personal "ick factor" about the subject matter in a couple of them, but it isn't up to me--or anybody else--to say something shouldn't be read.

You should feel free to "judge the fuck" out of that book and everything it represented. Instead of being like Hitler and his miscreants, please consider taking time to educate and discuss why you disagree with the ideas in the book. YMMV, but I truly feel censorship is never right.

YMMV. Peace to you.

Laura

[canetoad]

28. Well said

Book banning is fascist. They should be read and refuted if necessary - not banned.

[moniss]

26. I remember articles

from back in the '80s about questions swirling around that company.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

29. The amount of Nazi/Hitler memorabilia is amazing

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[f_townsend]

30. In addition to collecting corrupt RW judges n/t

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

31. Gee...

[Mike Nelson]

32. I read...

... thinking, maybe this is just someone who collects WWII memorabilia. But the behavior doesn't match with someone I know... this reads like the billionaire is a "fan" of Hitler. How perverse it is for Thomas to be a personal friend of this man... a US Supreme Court Justice. Beyond disgusting...

[leftyladyfrommo]

33. That guy sounds like an 007 uber villain. I guess

they really do exist. Gold Finger is playing in the background.