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Re: A question of remembrance...
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Tue, 24 Apr 2001 15:04:44 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Daniel Jassim writes:
> So, as an artist putting out a message of mass human suffering, the least
> Spielberg could have done at that moment before the world was to speak out
> against the genocide still going on in the world at that very moment. No, he
> stuck to the Jews only and, in my opinion, reduced their tragedy to cliche.
It should be noted that Speilberg is Jewish. This doesn't forgive his
ignoring other pogroms, of course, but it is significant.
> About 28 million Russians (that's soldiers and civilians) died because of
> the Germans. How come we almost never hear about them? That's more than 4
> times the estimate of 6 million Jews! Really, how come we don't hear about
> this?
This has been hashed over in this newsgroup before; here's my take (1) on
it: http://news.lugnet.com/off-topic/debate/?n=122
(A few of those points I've since retracted, especially my thin,
north-of-the-mason-dixon-line view of Southern USians.)
The long and short of it is, what's popular is what's politically correct,
and history is written by the winners. You have a complaint about what
groups are popular? You gotta propagandize against them, then. You have a
complaint about how history is remembered? Then win the next war. It
sucks, it's evil, and it promotes genocide, but it's how the system works.
(Um, it probably should also be noted that my BCM (Bitter Cynicism Module)
wrote most of the preceeding paragraph.)
Cheers,
- jsproat
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| (...) In my view, since the film was about Schindler's List, anyone outside of the direct effect of The List is irrelevant to the film. That's not to say their deaths weren't tragic or aren't signficant, but they are beyond the intended scope of the (...) (23 years ago, 24-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Or doesn't work, since we keep having wars. :( Yep, the American media does a great job to stir up hatred as to somehow justify it's shameful foreign policy. Omitting facts about the Holocaust by repeating (and repeating) only the figures on (...) (23 years ago, 24-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| Richard, Wow, that was an excellent post! Yes, I agree that we should remember all the victims of the Holocaust. I feel it does justice to the memory of the Jewish victims when we don't single them out, because doing so creates a hipocrisy. When (...) (23 years ago, 24-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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