The Femistasi and the Plain Old STASI
There is a group of what you might call "feminazis" in Vancouver, B .C. who only half-ironically call themselves the femistasi. You have met them by now. They are the same posse who attacked the pro-male placards in the progressive Commercial Drive district, on the grounds that said placards were "hateful", or the like. Let's not mince words: these femistasi are viciously aggressive moral wolverines, and I wouldn' t put anything past them at all. But never forget that they call themselves femistasi by their own free choice, so you and I, dear friends, are free to follow their lead by calling them exactly what they call themselves.
I suppose their rationale might be, that the East German STASI was a Communist org -- hence "left-wing". You know, as opposed to the National Socialists, who are deemed "right wing", hence, I don't know. . . . somehow worse? Mind you, I get that the STASI didn't operate death camps, so clearly they must shine by comparison to the Nazis, nicht wahr? Sure, I guess I can sort of understand why a pro-feminist, anti-male gang in Vancouver, Canada, would embrace the monikker of "femistasi" in preference to "feminazi." No doubt they find it all very artsy, edgy, and tongue-in-cheek, to call themselves such a thing. And I know they depend on you to smirk knowingly along with their cutesy, masturbatory, avant-garde little inside joke, and to never-but-never remark how closely their own attitude resembles that of the original STASI.
So I will never-but-never call these progressive Vancouverites "feminazis". Feminists hate to hear that word for any reason at all, so Femistasi it is, all the way! See how accommodating I am?
Now, the word STASI is short for Ministerium für Staatssicherheit -- that's "Ministry for State Security", if you're curious. This ministry was founded in 1950, when the smoke of war had hardly cleared and rubble still lay in heaps. And for the following forty years it held the German Democratic Republic under a pythonic reign of Schrecklichkeit which I earnestly hope you can't imagine. (It has been my honor to converse with Germans who lived in those times!)
At any rate, the original STASI never cared one spit about about human rights, so it is all of the same cloth, so to speak, that their current quasi-namesakes in Vancouver become apeshit-angry over the slogan that "men's rights are human rights."
Derek Bedry of openfile.ca is certainly a case in point, and when he fabricated his own news in order to write a fake story about people he wanted to destroy, he operated from the same bag of tricks that his East German role models dipped into for many years. But I should in fairness add that the original STASI had far worse tricks up its sleeves than that. So I reckon these Vancouver femistasi just never get a chance to show their stuff, do they? And so they must discreetly draw the line at pony league projects. For now, anyway.
So with all of that echoing in your brain, I send you to the official Wikipedia article about the original East German STASI. I would encourage you to study the long list of "examples" -- especially toward the end, where it features propaganda smear tricks these gallant lads got up to when they weren't bloodying their hands with matters purely murderous:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi
And when you are done with that, you will enjoy this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Unity_Party_of_Germany
Finally, to highlight yet again the karmic arc of misandry which runs from all quarters to all quarters, here as usual is a link to the Agent Orange files:
agentorangefiles.com
I suppose their rationale might be, that the East German STASI was a Communist org -- hence "left-wing". You know, as opposed to the National Socialists, who are deemed "right wing", hence, I don't know. . . . somehow worse? Mind you, I get that the STASI didn't operate death camps, so clearly they must shine by comparison to the Nazis, nicht wahr? Sure, I guess I can sort of understand why a pro-feminist, anti-male gang in Vancouver, Canada, would embrace the monikker of "femistasi" in preference to "feminazi." No doubt they find it all very artsy, edgy, and tongue-in-cheek, to call themselves such a thing. And I know they depend on you to smirk knowingly along with their cutesy, masturbatory, avant-garde little inside joke, and to never-but-never remark how closely their own attitude resembles that of the original STASI.
So I will never-but-never call these progressive Vancouverites "feminazis". Feminists hate to hear that word for any reason at all, so Femistasi it is, all the way! See how accommodating I am?
Now, the word STASI is short for Ministerium für Staatssicherheit -- that's "Ministry for State Security", if you're curious. This ministry was founded in 1950, when the smoke of war had hardly cleared and rubble still lay in heaps. And for the following forty years it held the German Democratic Republic under a pythonic reign of Schrecklichkeit which I earnestly hope you can't imagine. (It has been my honor to converse with Germans who lived in those times!)
At any rate, the original STASI never cared one spit about about human rights, so it is all of the same cloth, so to speak, that their current quasi-namesakes in Vancouver become apeshit-angry over the slogan that "men's rights are human rights."
Derek Bedry of openfile.ca is certainly a case in point, and when he fabricated his own news in order to write a fake story about people he wanted to destroy, he operated from the same bag of tricks that his East German role models dipped into for many years. But I should in fairness add that the original STASI had far worse tricks up its sleeves than that. So I reckon these Vancouver femistasi just never get a chance to show their stuff, do they? And so they must discreetly draw the line at pony league projects. For now, anyway.
So with all of that echoing in your brain, I send you to the official Wikipedia article about the original East German STASI. I would encourage you to study the long list of "examples" -- especially toward the end, where it features propaganda smear tricks these gallant lads got up to when they weren't bloodying their hands with matters purely murderous:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi
And when you are done with that, you will enjoy this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Unity_Party_of_Germany
Finally, to highlight yet again the karmic arc of misandry which runs from all quarters to all quarters, here as usual is a link to the Agent Orange files:
agentorangefiles.com
posted by Fidelbogen at 7:39 PM
4 Comments:
Fidelbogen:
To be honest, when I first heard the feminist reactionaries using the 'stasi' term; I though it was some kind of trick they'd employ for later quote-mining purposes. But I guess they really meant it and embrace it after all...
Yeah, East Germany was a really a role model for the west to follow...pfffttt.
What I've read of the German Stasi: it was largely originally made up of ex-Gestapo men who decided converting to Communism after the war would be a smart career move. William L. Shirer, in his book 'The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich' believed that Heinrich Mueller, the top Gestapo official who disappeared in 1945, had defected to the Soviets and was in charge of organizing the Stasi.
One of the main traits of German Stasi members had been their learned and willful blindness against opposing world views, so the term "Femistasi" fits quite well.
Getting Stasi people to see anything good in the Western way of life must have been as impossible as getting the leaders of the North Korean Worker's Party Samba-dancing in the street carnival of Brazil.
Brings to mind the movie "The Lives of Others".
Also brings to mind the manner in which a couple of feminists I've had the displeasure of encountering who listen in on others' phone calls with a mindset that you can do that with men, it's like you can't invade the privacy of a dog, in their mind.
My gut instinct told me, and a quick google search confirmed, that the Stasi recruited quite a bit of ex-Nazi talent. Anybody who purports to discern a moral difference between Nazi and Stasi, needs to wake up and realize that often, they were the exact same people.
German Communists recognized early on, that it was easier to "flip" a Nazi to Communism, that it was to flip someone who believed in liberal democracy. Indeed, before the war, German Communists were instructed to support the Nazi movement, on the reasoning, "Nach Hitler, Uns!" (After Hitler, Us!). (Hat tip, "The True Believer", Erich Hoffer)
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