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Judi Lynn

(160,542 posts)
Thu Apr 13, 2017, 08:33 PM Apr 2017

The Anti-Defamation League Is Offering Sean Spicer Remedial Holocaust Lessons

Source: Huffington Post

04/13/2017 07:05 pm ET
“We believe a few hours learning this history will help you understand where you went wrong,” the ADL said.
By Antonia Blumberg

White House press secretary Sean Spicer kicked off the Jewish holiday of Passover with comments many have described as by-the-book Holocaust-denial. Now, the Anti-Defamation League is offering Spicer and his colleagues remedial lessons in Holocaust awareness to ensure it doesn’t happen again.

During a press briefing on Tuesday, Spicer compared Syrian President Bashar Assad to German dictator Adolf Hitler, who, according to Spicer, “didn’t even sink to using chemical weapons.”

Jonathan A. Greenblatt, CEO of ADL, sent Spicer a letter on Thursday offering to conduct a training on Holocaust awareness for the press secretary and his staff.

“When the first days of Passover ended and we turned on our phones and televisions yesterday evening, we learned about your comment that Hitler did not gas his own people,” Greenblatt wrote in the letter, published on ADL’s website. “Your comparisons between Assad and Hitler were not only historically inaccurate but they also were inappropriate and offensive.”



Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/anti-defamation-league-sean-spicer_us_58efeab3e4b0b9e9848aaff7?section=us_politics

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The Anti-Defamation League Is Offering Sean Spicer Remedial Holocaust Lessons (Original Post) Judi Lynn Apr 2017 OP
get him to the chamber bora13 Apr 2017 #1
Nazis Bad, Sean. Mc Mike Apr 2017 #2

bora13

(860 posts)
1. get him to the chamber
Thu Apr 13, 2017, 09:29 PM
Apr 2017

army gas chamber found at basic training camps, that is. All soldiers must enter a CS gas filled room,
take off their gas mask, and be forced to breathe the shit in.
All so that they know they can be confident in their equipment.

Obviously this is not a comparison to Serin gas, but someone like spicey could sure benefit from the experience.

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