Columbia Defends Its Nazi Links: "Everyone Was Doing It"

Jewish Press ^ | 12-11-06

[SJackson]

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[Alouette]

Yes, but did they have slavery links?

[FlingWingFlyer]

"Everyone Was Doing It"

Same excuse Slick Willie and Hillary always use.

[proud_yank]

Do you know who it was that studied/founded 'eugenics', which was largely popularized by the Nazis?

[Clemenza]

Columbia ping!

[pleikumud]

William Randolph Hearst was sympathetic to Hitler's government also, until it became obvious that Hitler was a madman determined to eliminate the Jews from the Third Reich. Hearst even published and paid for essays written by Hitler and Mussolini.

[Teflonic]

So will there be scandals like this concerning presently liberal colleges 70+ years from now? We can only hope.

[SJackson]

Do you know who it was that studied/founded 'eugenics', which was largely popularized by the Nazis?

Many people, but I'll bet you're probably thinking of Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood.

[kinoxi]

"More circling of the wagons," Medoff says. "Instead of just coming clean and admitting that Columbia was wrong to expel Burke, Professor Rosenthal offers what sounds like an attempt to rationalize the expulsion. I understand that this is embarrassing for Columbia, but after seventy years, one would have expected a more mature response."

A very measured and realistic statement.

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

Rosenthal also said that Butler "supported Italian fascism" in the 1930's, but it was "a time when many people did ... the notion that he was a Fascist is absurd."

Huh? He supports it but he is not it?

I wonder what ever happened to Robert Burke?

[oyez]

Did Columbia and Brown break any laws? If not, that should be the end of it.

[Socratic]

I wonder what Senator Kennedy has to say about all this.

[muawiyah]

Who said Columbia is "presently liberal" ~ they are, in fact, as antisemitic now as they were then.

[Calpernia]

[Enchante]

Columbia and other universities were bad in that era, to be sure, but I'm a lot more interested in seeing more such attention given to one of the most bigoted anti-semites of that time, the man who occupied our single most important diplomatic position outside of the USA as WWII approached, a man whose friendliness to the Nazis and bigotry toward "Jewish influences" has never been adequately aired in this country, the man who did all in his power to undermine the defense of civilization in the face of the Nazi onslaught, Ambassador Joseph Kennedy, Sr.:

http://hnn.us/articles/697.html

"Kennedy replied that he expected the "Jew media" in the United States to become a problem, that "Jewish pundits in New York and Los Angeles" were already making noises contrived to "set a match to the fuse of the world." During May of 1938, Kennedy engaged in extensive discussions with the new German Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, Herbert von Dirksen. In the midst of these conversations (held without approval from the U.S. State Department), Kennedy advised von Dirksen that President Roosevelt was the victim of "Jewish influence" and was poorly informed as to the philosophy, ambitions and ideals of Hitler's regime. (The Nazi ambassador subsequently told his bosses that Kennedy was "Germany's best friend" in London.)"

[spanalot]

Columbia is also the home of the Pulitzer that gave Duranty a Prize for covering up Communist Genocide in 1932

[keithtoo]

Hmmmmm? Brings to mind another NY institution and it's 1930's bootlicking of another tyranny.

Two words: Walter Duranty.

[WorkingClassFilth]

What I'd like to see - something really telling - would be an examination of Academe's relationship to Marxism and global communist tyranny. Hanging 100 million murders around the neck of the pointy headed geeks at your local university ought to be easier than conjuring Nazi ghosts at Columbia.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

What's Harvard's excuse gonna be?