Seattle Times cancelled and fired their recent hire, who a Twitter outrage mob of Tankies decried as a Trumpist, rural redneck from Georgia, arch-conservative, Nazi, descendant of Jew hunters, and more.
David Josef Volodzko, whose ancestors were hunted by Nazis, and had family members killed in Hitler's concentration camps, is actually a self identified Democratic Socialist, who originally hails from New Jersey and has lived in Japan, South Korea, Nepal, India, Peru, China, Ukraine and rural Georgia before moving to Seattle to become a columnist there.
His first column was about the Vladimir Lenin statue for the Seattle Times and where he made a sinful comparison of Lenin to Hitler, allegedly equivocating they were comparably evil!
Then he posted his column on Twitter...
Poor lad, thinking you could have a substantial discussion over the internet, much less social media like Twitter. Thankfully the Seattle Times had his back!
Lenin keeps on winning!
David Josef Volodzko, whose ancestors were hunted by Nazis, and had family members killed in Hitler's concentration camps, is actually a self identified Democratic Socialist, who originally hails from New Jersey and has lived in Japan, South Korea, Nepal, India, Peru, China, Ukraine and rural Georgia before moving to Seattle to become a columnist there.
His first column was about the Vladimir Lenin statue for the Seattle Times and where he made a sinful comparison of Lenin to Hitler, allegedly equivocating they were comparably evil!
Dear Fremont: We need to talk about Lenin and your statue of the genocidal tyrant | David Volodzko
The effigy of the ruthless leader of the Russian Revolution in the quirky neighborhood is an ugly reminder that Seattle's concern for the oppressed has limits.
www.seattletimes.com
Then he posted his column on Twitter...
David Volodzko said:I made a mistake when I posted the column on Twitter and compared Lenin and Hitler. Here's what I wrote: "In fact, while Hitler has become the great symbol of evil in history books, he too was less evil than Lenin because Hitler only targeted people he personally believed were harmful to society whereas Lenin targeted even those he himself didn't believe were harmful in any way."
I was only speaking in terms of intention—of who wanted to kill more, not who actually did, and in a follow-up tweet I explained: "Hitler was more evil than Lenin if we're looking at what they did to people and that's a pretty important metric for assessing evil!"
It's the kind of topic that you can debate among trusted friends over drinks or dinner. But Twitter is very much not that kind of place. And the argument I was making is a fraught one even under the best of circumstances—you don't need to compare anyone to Hitler to argue that they are evil—and my delivery was poor, to say the least. Four days after I started making these points on Twitter, I deleted the thread.
Poor lad, thinking you could have a substantial discussion over the internet, much less social media like Twitter. Thankfully the Seattle Times had his back!
David Volodzko said:Six days after my piece was published, I was relieved when my boss told me she had reviewed the Twitter conversation and concluded I had obviously not "defended" Hitler. I was told the company had my back. I was told the paper would not stand for a lying Twitter mob coming after one of its own.
But then, just a few hours later, my boss called me and told me I was fired.
Lenin keeps on winning!
My Family Was Hunted by Nazis. But I Was Fired For ‘Defending Hitler.’
David Volodzko criticized Lenin in ‘The Seattle Times.’ Now he is without a job. A story of profound intolerance in our country’s most “tolerant” city.
www.thefp.com