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He excludes Muslim immigrants and expunges Jews from memory but the new president sees himself as 'incredibly inclusive.'
Chemi Shalev Jan 29, 2017 5:14 PM
In her book "Denying the Holocaust, the Growing Assault on Truth and Memory" - the one that sparked her famous trial with Holocaust denier David Irving, now featured in the Hollywood film Denial - historian Deborah Lipstadt cites a Yes, but attitude of some historians towards the Holocaust. It is a response that falls into the gray area between outright denial and relativism, she writes. It is the equivalent of David Duke without robes.
The Trump administrations lame excuse for not mentioning Jews on Holocaust Remembrance Day on Friday falls into the category of Yes, but excuses, but only if one wants to be generous. By less forgiving accounts, the White House is engaged in full-throttle denial of the Holocaust, which includes denying the centrality of Jews. Yes, six million Jews died, but so did many others, according to spokesperson Hope Hicks. We took into account all of those who suffered, she told CNN. We are an incredibly inclusive group.
Never mind that for the administration to claim it is incredibly inclusive on a day that it takes drastic new measures against Muslim refugees and immigrants shows a stupendous lack in self-perception. Incredibly inclusive, by the administrations standards, apparently means blotting out the unique Jewish nature of the Holocaust and of the Final Solution. Even the United Nations, which established the January 27 International Holocaust Remembrance Day in Resolution 60/7 on November 1, 2005 at the instigation of the Israeli government, among others was less stingy than the Trump administration. Reaffirming that the Holocaust, which resulted in the murder of one third of the Jewish people, along with countless members of other minorities, will forever be a warning to all people of the dangers of hatred, bigotry, racism and prejudice the resolution states. By Trumps standards, the UN is apparently too focused on Jews. Its not incredibly inclusive enough.
But forget the UN. How about just looking up the term Holocaust in Wikipedia? The Holocaust also known as the Shoah was a genocide in which Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany and its collaborators killed about six million Jews. Some definitions of the Holocaust include the additional five million non-Jewish victims of Nazi mass murders, bringing the total to about 11 million. Some definitions include the others, but none exclude the Jews - except for the one now being disseminated by the Trump administration.
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Happyhippychick
(8,379 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,711 posts)I said it reminds me of those who try to minimize American slavery because America wasn't the first nation where slavery existed.
Happyhippychick
(8,379 posts)Luckily there are more of us than him
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,711 posts)Hitler sure did... Every death is a tragedy and their progeny have every right not to let the world forget it happened.
It reminds me of people who try to match the Holocaust against slavery against the destruction of the American Indian. The progeny of the victims have every right to remind the world what was done to them. Hopefully, this will prevent it from happening to other people, hopefully...
TrekLuver
(2,573 posts)was supposed to be the voice of reason? What a great Jewish guy he is...I can't imagine ANY Jews thinking it's OK to leave them out of specific acknowledgement regarding the Holocaust.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,711 posts)demmiblue
(36,885 posts)Happyhippychick
(8,379 posts)WWII
oberliner
(58,724 posts)And his entourage.