Originally Posted by
Concart
It's funny how quickly a thread can steer from it's original intent when one poster with an agenda decides that this thread is fodder for their crusade. Next time I'm interested in discussing some issue that involves the Holocaust, I'll make sure I prevent that from happening. Let's see if I can get it back on track.
A Texas school official suggested that a 'opposing narrative' be taught when teaching about the Holocaust. I don't give two fucks if you want to talk about JUST the six million Jews, or if you want to talk about 18 million people killed. THAT IS NOT THE POINT OF THE THREAD. It was not bait to have a poster call everyone holocaust deniers. The point, if it wasn't obvious to EVERYONE is that there is no 'opposing narrative' to a factual accounting of history. Suggesting there is so is an attempt to whitewash history because some people are uncomfortable talking about it.
Can we talk about that instead? Would that be okay with you?
Gee, thanks.
Cowardice Is the Crime That Enables All Others
There are debatable opposing narratives about what we should conclude from the Holocaust. What lessons should we have learned from it?
First alternative: The Holocaust tells us nothing about racism in general.
Second: The rest of the world can't be judged guilty of anything just because it didn't intervene.
Third: American Jews could have joined the British or Canadian armies more than two years before Pearl Harbor, so, if the second alternative if false, the Jews were as guilty as the Isolationists.
Fourth: The Jews should have terrorized the Nazis; every Jew should have chosen violence instead of hiding or submitting in a cowardly hope that things wouldn't turn out so bad. That would have prevented World War II. The same could be said about the Czechs, the Poles, the Belgians, the Dutch, and the Danes.
On the outside, trickling down on the Insiders
We won't live free until the Democrats, and their voters, live in fear.
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