When It Comes to Holocaust Awareness, We Need to Raise the Bar
From the article:
Weve written before about hateful acts of anti-Jewish bigotry being on the rise. News of bomb threats, vandalism, even desecration of Jewish cemeteries is reported daily. Just yesterday, near Washington, D.C., a Jewish Community Center was tagged with swastikas and the phrase Hitler was right. The incident was all the more painful as it occurred on the first full day of the Jewish holy week of Passover. ........
Vandalizing a synagogue and saying something insensitive on national television are not the same thingbut they both indicate something disturbing about our national understanding about the Holocaust and genocide. People who think the Holocaust was an atrocity but dont understand the nuances have a looser grip on their position than they think they do. And they have a much looser grip on their position than people who think Hitler was right.
This is not ancient history, this is within living memory.
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http://www.tolerance.org/blog/when-it-comes-holocaust-awareness-we-need-raise-bar