Justice Clarence Thomas's megadonor friend collects Hitler memorabilia

[mysteryowl]

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.”

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

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

Puke!

[Blues Heron]

1. so creepy

[Irish_Dem]

2. Hitler is a symbol of pure evil. That is why some people adore and follow his teachings.

They live on the Dark Side.

[PCIntern]

3. I will never forget the father of a guy I used to pal around with in high school

I went over to his house, one time, and his father showed me his collection of Nazi memorabilia, including a Luger pistol, fully functional, and medals, and a bunch of other stuff he bought and may have taken from the corpses of dead soldiers when he was in the war. The one sentence that was emblazoned in my brain was when he said “You have to admit their uniforms were really sharp.“

A short time later, I read that nearly-exact sentence in a National Lampoon parody, and realized that this was a catchphrase of these assholes. I asked my father, who was a veteran of the Pacific theater What he thought of all this, and he just shook his head and waved his hand in dismissal. One word escaped from his lips: “Assholes.”

[dlk]

4. When you're a fascist...

In addition to extinguishing freedoms, fascist dictators steal resources and others’ property. This is as much about greed and avarice, as anything else. Crow wants it all for himself, and he’s bought a Supreme Court justice, along with his wife, to do it.

[Johnny2X2X]

5. It's not a curiosity

Most of the people who collect this stuff are sick. There are people who admire Hitler here in the US, some of them are very powerful.