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The Hollowness of Holocaust Remembrance
Bastiat's Window ^ | 28 Jan 2024 | Robert F Graboyes

Posted on 01/28/2024 4:18:51 PM PST by Rummyfan

Hitler to Hamas, Eugenics to Equitism

On this, the 79th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the Holocaust Remembrance industry stands as a colossal failure. Holocaust Remembrance Day, it turns out, successfully transfixed eyes on the rear-view mirror and diverted attention from the dangers 10 feet in front of us. And, truth be told, the rear-view mirror is growing a bit foggy, as well. Less than a century ago, the leading intellectuals of Germany—the most highly educated nation on earth—initiated, participated in, or acquiesced to mass murder on a previously unimaginable scale. And only weeks ago, intellectuals in America, Europe, and elsewhere waxed lyrical over the rape, torture, mutilation, murder, beheading, and kidnapping of innocent Jews.

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A century ago, eugenics provided the unquestioned and unquestionable foundation for academic writing and public policy. Eugenics preached a world of predestination, where an individual’s worth was irrevocably determined at birth by race, religion, gender, sexuality, disability, economic status, and family history. No one could escape his or her essentialist destiny by dint of action, accomplishment, or character. Eugenics began as parlor conversation among well-born, well-educated, often well-meaning British academics. Then, it jumped the Atlantic and gave rise to a sexual sterilization machine in America—enabled by a debauched Supreme Court. Finally, it leaped back to Europe, where it metastasized into the Holocaust.

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1 posted on 01/28/2024 4:18:51 PM PST by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

I still remember growing up with “Never again.”


2 posted on 01/28/2024 4:29:39 PM PST by mairdie (Trump - Nessun Dorma, from Puccini's Turandot - Luciano Pavarotti https://youtu.be/MigUKGKr-nQ)
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To: Rummyfan

The world should never forget what happened to the Jews in World War II. Those who don’t know history is bound to repeat it. History teaches us how to avoid the same scenerios.

History merely repeats itself. It has all been done before. Nothing under the sun is truly new. Sometimes people say, “Here is something new!” But actually it is old; nothing is ever truly new. (Ecclesiastes 1:9-10)


3 posted on 01/28/2024 4:33:16 PM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation down GOD is the LORD. (Psalm 33:12))
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To: Rummyfan

I wonder about those who think they have to ‘fix’ the problems of the world, usually without any true understanding of the real problem. If only we could convince people that Jordan Peterson is right: Is YOUR room clean?!

Elites, & anyone with power, need to understand that the world isn’t theirs to change or correct. In this world, each individual is supposed to deal with themselves. If that happened so much cruelty, pain & heartache would be avoided.


4 posted on 01/28/2024 4:41:19 PM PST by Twotone (I used to worry there'd be a civil war. Now I worry there won't be. - Mark Steyn)
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To: Rummyfan

Effectively, Germany’s choices in the early 30’s were either Communism or National Socialism. I wonder how Communism would have worked out.


5 posted on 01/28/2024 4:56:18 PM PST by alternatives?
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To: alternatives?

Blame Woodrow Wilson.


6 posted on 01/28/2024 5:02:59 PM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! DEATH TO MARXISM AND LEFTISM! AMERICA, COWBOY UP!)
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To: Rummyfan

How about for its 80th anniversary Israel builds a memorial to the American troops that liberated Auschwitz. Never Forget!


7 posted on 01/28/2024 5:08:52 PM PST by MNDude
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To: alternatives?

***I wonder how Communism would have worked out.***

The same.

“Controversial problems [between Germany and Russia] did not, in my opinion, exist anywhere along the line from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea and to the Far East. In addition, despite all the divergencies in their views of life, there was one thing common to the ideology of Germany, Italy and the Soviet Union: opposition to the capitalist democracies in the West.”—Julius Schnurre, Nazi trade rep to Russia.

Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by Shirer. Page 501 in my copy,


8 posted on 01/28/2024 5:10:53 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: alternatives?

“I wonder how Communism would have worked out.”

Just as many German citizens would have been killed, but this would have been forgiven and overlooked by historians.


9 posted on 01/28/2024 5:20:09 PM PST by MNDude
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To: MNDude

Well, it was the Red Army that liberated Auschwitz.


10 posted on 01/28/2024 5:27:21 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

I don’t know. Hitler thought the Slavs and Russians were inferior people. I don’t know what the majority of ordinary Germans thought. It is hard for two people to work together long when one thinks the other is a moron.


11 posted on 01/28/2024 5:59:19 PM PST by alternatives?
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To: Rummyfan
The Holocaust Remembrance industry didn't do much for...

The victims of the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution
The East Timorese
The victims of Pol Pot
The Rwandan Tutsis

12 posted on 01/28/2024 6:03:28 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear (What is left around which to circle the wagons?)
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To: MNDude

Cause Jews did3, right?


13 posted on 01/28/2024 6:42:12 PM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! DEATH TO MARXISM AND LEFTISM! AMERICA, COWBOY UP!)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

They were all BAD. But mabey you don’t agree that it 2as bad.


14 posted on 01/28/2024 6:43:14 PM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! DEATH TO MARXISM AND LEFTISM! AMERICA, COWBOY UP!)
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To: MNDude

Replacement Theology is a Doctrine of Demons.


15 posted on 01/28/2024 6:43:48 PM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! DEATH TO MARXISM AND LEFTISM! AMERICA, COWBOY UP!)
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To: MNDude

Ok, let me try one more time. ALL were bad, all were demonic from the pit of hell. Only Jews were exterminated for being Jews.


16 posted on 01/28/2024 6:49:27 PM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! DEATH TO MARXISM AND LEFTISM! AMERICA, COWBOY UP!)
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To: alternatives?

Well, the eastern 1/3rd of Germany got to find out. The Russians kept Buchenwald and some other concentration camps up and running ... only the name and the inmate population changed.


17 posted on 01/28/2024 7:48:40 PM PST by Campion (Everything is a grace, everything is the direct effect of our Father's love - Little Flower)
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To: alternatives?

“Effectively, Germany’s choices in the early 30’s were either Communism or National Socialism. I wonder how Communism would have worked out.”
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Probably not much differently - both are Collectivist ideologies, in which the individual has no rights whatsoever. Hitler and his henchmen and collaborators murdered about 75 members of my extended family, whereas Stalin and his henchmen murdered one of my great grandfathers (then 74 and suffering from esophageal cancer), and he and his successors effectively kept 3/4 of that great grandfather’s descendants as indentured servants for 3 generations.

Screw all of the “isms,” they are just another word for dictatorship and lack of rights for all but the inner circle around the top man (and even they walk on quicksand daily).


18 posted on 01/28/2024 9:14:07 PM PST by Ancesthntr (“The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.” ― A.E. Van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: Rummyfan

Bastiat


19 posted on 01/28/2024 9:17:46 PM PST by linMcHlp
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To: cowboyusa
My understanding is that the intention of "Never Again" and remembering the Holocaust is to prevent ALL future genocide and not just future genocides against Jews.

I guess I misunderstood, at least according to this essayist.

20 posted on 01/28/2024 10:22:24 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear (What is left around which to circle the wagons?)
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