Ukraine's former President &Prime Minister to formalize and strengthen alliance with Neo-Nazi groups

[The Magistrate]

63. And You Repeat Your Defense Here, Sir, Even As You Say You Do Not Defend Him

To state that something is taken out of context, or mis-characterized, is to defend. One need not even get into the question of whether anything was actually taken out of context, in a manner that would distort its meaning, or was in any way mis-characterized, to recognize that your claims such was done are a defense of the person. Defending him, claiming he is not really an Anti-Semite, when it is abundantly obvious from his own words that he is, is supporting him. People who defend and support a raving Anti-Semite cut a poor figure decrying Anti-Semitism in other directions. Such persons can rightly be regarded as having no real objection to the bigotry, but rather simply find it a convenient cudgel to try and use in belaboring people they dislike for other reasons, because they think use of it will gain some mileage with people who are genuinely affronted by bigotry. This is elementary stuff, and your blindness to it only makes it more likely that you over-look a good many other things, and so calls into serious question the worth of your opinions and analysis, and whether things you take to be facts, or state to be facts, actually are.

In regard to the political situation in Ukraine, I have simply stated facts. It is a fact that the neo-nazi parties have only small footing in the Kiev government, and in the voting public loyal to the Kiev government. This fact makes claims that the Kiev government is a Nazi government false, and in most cases knowingly false, or in short, deliberate lies. This is in no way defense of the expressed views of neo-nazis present in Ukraine, nor in any way a defense or vindication of their character.