| article by Mr. Grim Michael Schmidt 4 Jan 2003 Dear Sir or Madam, Than you very much for removing the William Grim hate speech from your website. Disguised as a conservative American this self appointed "famous author" distributes racist slur that does not even spare German jews. He ruthlessly exploits the traumata and feelings of the survivors of the holocaust. I have gone through the effort of analyzing two of his endless hate articles and I have come to the conclusion that he is either a charlatan or an agent provocateur, or both. May anyone make their own judgement. In an article published under various Internet adresses Grim reports about the presentation of Polansky's new film The pianist in Munich, Germany, where Polansky received an award from the State of Bavaria in November 2002. Grim uses this as an occasion to denounce the Frankfurt, Germany -born philosopher Adorno (1903-1969) as having been anti-american and semi-nazi. Most of his statements are factually wrong: GRIM: "The execrable German Marxist philosopher Theodor W. Adorno (who is best known today as the model for the character Wendall Kretzschmar, one of the manifestations of the Devil in Thomas Mann's novel Doktor Faustus)" The character Wendell (not Wendall) Kretzschmar in Thomas Mann's novel Doktor Faustus is a teacher of music, a composer and an organist and no manifestation of the Devil at all. Wendell Kretzschmars famous lecture on Beethoven's sonata opus 111 in Chapter VII of the novel is using many elements of Adorno's essay on the same subject. Adorno also consulted Thomas Mann on many aspects of the work of Arnold Schoenberg, used by Mann as a model for the tragic hero of this novel. Grim, as usual, supposes fact by phantasy. GRIM: "Theodor W. Adorno once famously remarked that "after Auschwitz there can be no art." This is a falsified version of Adorno's statement of 1951. The original reads :"...nach Auschwitz ein Gedicht zu schreiben, ist barbarisch, und das fri‗t auch die Erkenntnis an, die ausspricht, warum es unmצglich ward, Gedichte zu schreiben." ("... after Auschwitz, to write a poem is barbaric, and this even erodes the cognition articulating why it became impossible to write poems"). It is linked to the observation made in Adorono's Minima Moralia (1944): "Der Gedanke, da‗ nach diesem Krieg das Leben 'normal' weitergehen oder gar die Kultur 'wiederaufgebaut' werden kצnnte - als wהre nicht der Wiederaufbau von Kultur allein schon deren Negation -, ist idiotisch. Millionen von Juden sind ermordet worden, und das soll ein Zwischenspiel sein und nicht die Katastrophe selbst. Worauf wartet diese Kultur eigentlich noch?" ("The idea that after this war life could go on "normal", or culture even be "rebuilt" is idiotic - as rebuilding culture is its negation by itself. Millions of jews have been murdered, and this shall be an interlude and not the catastrophe itself? What is this culture waiting for?" The falsified version of Adorno's statement on poetry after Auschwitz is currently used by right wing and antisemitic circles in Germany to "prove" that jewish influence allegedly hinders young Germans in the free expression of their feelings (cf. Walsers critique of Moralkeule, moral hunch). Adorno was of jewish descent, expelled by the Nazis from his professorship in Frankfurt 1933, emigrated to Oxford, UK in 1934 and later to the US. He returned to Germany in 1949). Grim finds himself in a strange alliance here. GRIM: >>indeed, he spent World War II in exile in Hollywood where he devoted his time to denouncing America << Adorno arrived in New York in 1938 and worked in Newark, NJ on the Princeton Radio Research Project. He moved with his familiy to Los Angeles in 1941, where he wrote with Horkheimer the famous chapter on "Elements of Antisemitism" in "Dialektik der Aufkהrung", . He later joined the research team at the University of California that wrote, with the help of the American Jewish Committee New York, the "Study in Prejudice", The Authoritarian Personality, designed to uncover prejudice-prone attitudes in people. In his 1969 essay "Scientific Experiences of a European Scholar in America" he wrote about the "experience of the substance of democratic forms: that they they have deeply infiltrated into everday life in America", and that he "learned to know a potential of real humanism" in this country "that is barely found in old Europe". In "Auf die Frage: Was ist deutsch?", "To the question: What is German?" he stated: "Hochmut gegen Amerika in Deutschland ist unbillig. Es nutzt nur, unter Mi‗brauch eines Hצheren, den muffigsten Instinkten", "Arrogance against America is unreasonable in Germany. It only serves most smelly instincts, under the pretext of higher interest"). Mr. Grim's antiamerican Adorno is just another invention of the self-appointed famous author. GRIM: "ridiculing American culture, especially 'Negro jazz' " Grim continues to phantasize. Adorno on America: "In America I was freed of the naive belief in culture, and acquired the skill to view culture from the outside". Grim's remark on jazz music is a simple insult. GRIM: "his willingness to deny art to those who had been brutalized by his fellow countrymen reveals an arrogance so profound that it is simply beyond the capacity to analyze. It also is a clear demonstration of how easily all Germans (whether of the left or the right) fall into the risible delusion that they somehow constitute a 'master race.' " Grim now goes overboard. While he admitted earlier that "Adorno was no Nazi" (surprise!), he now views Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno as a representative of the German master race, denying the jewish people the right to read and write poetry! This is really unbelievable. GRIM: "The War is over and life has returned to Warsaw. Wladyslaw Szpilman is performing a concerto accompanied by a full orchestra. No words are spoken, and the scene continues as the credits are rolling. But the message is clear. It is the raised middle finger, proudly held aloft, and it points towards Germany, the remnants of the Nazi Party and Theodor W. Adorno" Talking during a concert would be unusual indeed, so why does Mr. Grim think this is worth noting? Obviously, he wants to add some authenticity to his free-wheeling stream of images, culminating in Polish fingerpointing at a German jew. It's really disgusting. GRIM: "I have to admit that it is a strange experience to watch a Holocaust film in Germany. It's even stranger when you're the only American in the midst of about 200 Germans" There may be people who feel its a strange experience in any country, but this is subjective. But how did Mr. Grim learn about the citizenship of the 200 members of the audience in Munich? Was a census taken at the entry? Did Grim inspect the passports? GRIM: "But perhaps the strangest thing of all is to watch the reactions of the Germans as the events of the movie unfold ... But there they were, today's educated, freedom-loving, let's-all-hold-hands-and-love-one-another Germans, laughing at torture. ... This time the audience fairly rolled with laughter" So Grim pretends that the 2002 Munich audience of The Pianist rolled with laughter watching scenes depicting Nazi torture of Jews during World War II. This is an incredible lie. Munich has a very active Jewish community which does not fear to speak up. In summer last year it was the place of a rally of solidarity with Israel, with the city major and representatives of the Bavarian government as keynote speakers. The city's media are highly sensitive to anything related to the dark sides of its past. By all standards, an event like the one Grim pretends to have seen would have been the talk of the town, of the nation and the world. He has just invented it, to hurt the feelings of all involved. GRIM: "The German soul is a deep abyss, a fetid, stinking morass that befouls the community of nations" Another example of Mr. Grim's humour is found in his ficticious report on the Iraq war. It adds African Americans and other people of color to the pool of inferior races: GRIM: "In fact, I doubt if any of our brave GIs even broke a sweat neutralizing these camel-humpers, and all because of a sweet operation that the Pentagon is calling “Operation Thick Sista.” Seems Ahab has a weakness for plump women of color. You know the type, Nell Carter, Queen Latifah, Oprah when she’s porking out on ice cream during her “monthly visitor.” Our guys took out an ad on the Al-Jazeera Arabic TV Network advertising a phone sex service featuring African-American women of substantial girth. When Abdul called in on his cell phone our spy satellites quickly triangulated his position and a Predator loaded with missiles took care of the love-sick Muslim." Or in his writings on "The best Cocktail bars in Europe - Part I Munich" GRIM: "When it comes to the sophisticated lifestyle of jazz and cocktails, Germany inhabits a position somewhere between Tadjikistan and Bangladesh. This is due in large part to German culture being based upon military marches and beer. Indeed, it is hard to fathom how Germans ever considered themselves (as many of them still do) the “master race” given the thin gruel upon which they have based their civilization. ... There is something extremely satisfying to have in Munich, the city where the Nazi movement originated, a bar named after martini-loving President Franklin D. Roosevelt whose image is prominently featured on the bar’s menus. This is the ultimate revenge against Ol’ Shiklgruber who, in addition to being one of the worst mass murderers of all time, was a vegetarian and teetotaler. The service at the Roosevelt Bar is excellent, and the dry martini I ordered was promptly served and sufficiently cold. It was perhaps not as dry as it could be, but given European standards it was exceptional." Mr. Grim has made it his business to exploit stereotypes, some of which are clearly racist. He should not be given any credit for his articles of hate. Michael Schmidt |
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