what you alluded to is part of my ambivalence of this.
i think because of Hollywood for various obvious reasons...politics and religious demographics that the Holocaust while obviously a very real and horrible thing always gets top billing over any other human tragedy in history while in fact collectivism with Lenin, Stalin, Beria and Mao and Pol Pot and Fidel at the helm costs more lives.
and yet collectivist excesses hardly ever get a nod.....Killing Fields, Doctor Ziavago..sort of, some Gulag flicks and whanot
Sonnenschein actually covers both with a narrative of a rich aristocratic Jewish family in Budapest thru Nazis and Communists
Slavery gets a lot of evil exposure but only slavery practices by whites.
Crusades likewise treated as more bad white Christian people stuff.
Abuse of Indians has sorta died off in popularity as has Afrikaaners as the perennial bogeyman.
Biggest killer in history:
Feminism by a huge huge margin.
The kinder gentler gang has so far killed nearly a billion unborn. A figure all the nasty men since Neanderthals died out could only dream of.
Our perception of truths today is so fake and self delusional
I think I’ll have to see “Sunshine”.
Excellent post! Couldn’t have said it any better.
Not to forget to mention the very reason that Europeans fled to this continent ~ mostly because of religious persecution. Here in Maryland it is illegal to even mention the religious component in the public school system. This issues raises it's head every Thanksgiving.
I taught in a private school a few years back and we didn't have any real observance of Black History Month in my class and it was not required.
We celebrated the live of the Saints according to the Church calender and if the Saint of the Day happened to have a darker colored skin that might come up if it were relevant; with Bl. Kateri Tekakwitha and St. Martin de Poores race could become a part of the discussion because these people suffered and were persecuted because of their race.
The kids in my school knew about Black History month being taught and promoted in public schools, libraries, in supermarkets and on TV. They recognized it for what it was worth; pandering.
These were pretty straight-laced, no trouble, Catholic students and a few of them actively mocked the patronizing manner of these all month promotions.
I tried tamp down such occurrences and attempted to “accentuate the positive” ~ as the old song goes ~ but I wasn't about to take the children to task too harshly for merely having the wits to recognize the hypocrisy of the prevailing culture.