Most people, when I say that, accuse me of hyperbole or violating the nonsensical Godwin's Law.
Because it hasn't gotten noticeable enough yet for them to see the naked truth of that, which only rarely (for the moment) breaks out in the open so obviously as you saw it.
But you saw, and now you recognize the truth of that supposed "hyperbole" because they basically rammed it down your throat.
If you haven't already, please view the Naomi Wolf YouTube in my signature line. If you want to see where your "friends" have been before, buy or get this book from the Library and read it.
http://www.amazon.com/Defying-Hitler-Memoir-Sebastian-Haffner/dp/0312421133/ref=pd_bbs_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197208607&sr=8-2Finally, and I cannot judge your actions, why did you STFU? That's how a Hitler and a Bush wins. Like I said, I cannot judge your actions in the heat of the moment, but I can only think of what I would have done in your place (maybe, I cannot say for sure because I won't know until I am put in a situation like that):
I would have stood up and said something like, "We're Americans. Supposedly the beacon of freedom and decency for the rest of the world. Have you people forgotten that? Have you forgotten simple human decency? And here you are, fat and better fed than 99% of the people in the world. What kind of monsters will you turn into if times get a little tough?
That's what you are, monsters talking about murdering children and you sickos are condemning ME for telling you this? You are monsters, you have proven it, and I won;t spend one more minute in your company."
Then I would have walked out.
Or perhaps I would have been tongue-tied and done what you did, I cannot say for sure. Either way, I would have swiftly cut those Nazi monsters out of my life shortly thereafter
Now you understand that old cliche we all heard a million times when we were kids (but strangely, we never hear since 12/12/2000):
Evil nazis didn't walk around with horns on their head. They were just like you and me, they looked so perfectly ordinary you couldn't distinguish them in a crowd. They looked like the people next door.View the YouTube in my sigline. Read "Defying Hitler". You have had a close-up view of the evil that we Americans have been reprogrammed to be. If we cannot stop, at least we can understand it to prepare for the future where our thinly veiled monstrosity breaks out into the open and begins to consume the New Jews in Amerika...that's US!