Someone whose job it is to faciliate remembering a genocide calls a group of people “fundamentally evil”. Must have not ever walked into the museum.
The real question for me is what are the rest of the trustees saying and planning to do about this. A bad apple spoils the bunch.
Virtually every Holocaust museum invites Israeli leaders for events. Their CEO’s are hand picked top-Zionists comparing Hamas to the Nazis etc. It is a difficult subject to criticize because once you start criticizing Holocaust museums you are walking on worlds sharpest eggshells.
He sees Palestinians as untermenschen.
Clearly the lessons learned weren’t about how what the Nazis did should never have been done to anybody but instead were about how they should never have done it to those of a specific ethnicity.
PS: Curiously, even though the Roma people (more widelly known as Gypsies) were equally targetted alongside the Jewish people by the Nazis, you almost never see them mentioned in official talk about and rememberances of the victims of the Holocaust.
The lesson the US took out of WW2 was not “don’t do a genocide”, but “don’t run out of oil”.
a classic case of “when education is not liberating, the dream of the oppressed is to become the oppressor” (paulo freire).
I’m tired of living in a satirical novel.
“Never again” went over their fucking heads. I say that as a Jew. Ugh.
Typical zionist mentality and behavior.
“It’s only Racist if it’s against members of the ‘Chosen people’, not if it’s against members of ‘human animal’ ethnicities”
Americans should be careful with these open endorsements for collective punishment. You reap what you sow and history has a funny way of surprising people.
Americans love collective punishment. We’ve been trained to be bloodthirsty monsters and support our military uncritically when they commit war crimes in our name.
Also, I know for a fact that we used depleted uranium in Iraq and Afganistan, poisoning the locals for generations to come.
Nazi talk
The lesson of the 1940s appears to boil down to “Better to give than receive”. The sentiment of the moment - that genocide is an abomination we should prevent at all costs - has been replaced by the fascist insistence that my tribe must slaughter your tribe before yours can do the same to me.
I think that most acts of repudiation of the Holocaust and the actions of the Nazis were anchored in the mindset of the 40s and 50s, which was deeply Racist, hence why they’re all about the victims of a specific race (conveninently ignoring that the Roma people as well as those who had disabilities were targetted just as hard by the Nazis).
This stuff basically calcified a certain view of the World, even whilst the World kept on evolving away from viewing people first and foremost as “ethnics”.
This would explain things like Germany politicians supporting yet another Genocide along racial lines and justifying that support by the race of the genociders, the support of Israel by the very same countries which supported the white colonialism in Appartheid South Africa and Holocaust rememberances completelly ignoring the victimization of people who are not seen as part of a “white non-christian” ethnicity.
The modern learning of the lessons of the Holocaust would’ve been “Never again shall this be done to anybody”, but the 1940s/50s learning which is the one which clearly (in light of the actions of Israel and the support for it in many countries) ended up encoded in most Rememberances and is still interiorized by many was instead the Racist version: “Never again shall this be done to the Jewish People”
Religion poisons everything, and everyone it touches gets poisoned.
this isnt religion unless you consider zionism a religion
Average fundamentalist religeous person behaviour.
Hope he dies alone and in pain
don’t forget: soon
Trustee of US Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation says Fascists were ‘Misunderstood’ and a ‘Lost Cause’
Martin Oliner deserves to get :redacted: , I tell ye hwat.
