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I do like a good fairy tale. Some people count sheep at night, what I like to do is take some bit of "wisdom" I got through e-mail and count the things wrong with it. When I get up to a couple of hundred, I drop off. Thanks to this one, I'm going to sleep very well tonight.
Where to begin? How about here - through a not very clever rhetorical device, the writer makes it appear that the Nazis and the Soviets were complicit in the same crimes. The Soviets were, in fact, the primary victims of Nazi aggression, and the victors in the European War. The United States played a bit part. It is true for his own reasons and political gain Stalin carried out monstrous pogroms of his own. And their allies, the United States, looked the other way, as long as there was no political advantage to make an issue of it.
In fact, the US was indifferent at best, hostile at worst to the plight of the European Jew, and were happy enough to help the Europeans solve their "Jewish Problem" by dumping them on the Palestinians. Christian Europeans try to exterminate the Jews, Christian America didn't intervene, now Muslims get the blame for the whole affair. Very slick.
The other main point I want to make is that Education is political. I was educated in the US, and my tender sensitivities were never ruffled by knowledge of Thomas Jefferson's serial rapes of the slave Sally Hemmings; CIA covert assassination programs against democratically elected leaders all over the world; the US role in forcing China to accept opium addiction for a large percentage of its population - and on and on and on.
As I'm writing this, the teaching of evolution is under attack by religious fanatics all over this country - there are educators who are willing to back away from teaching this subject to buy themselves a little peace - and who could blame them? It's a thankless task, trying to drive a little unwanted learning into the heads of no-neck cretins while their parents are trying to remove you from your job. I'll bet there are people on this very distribution that think that creation "science" out to be taught right next to the real thing in classrooms, or instead of it, but you get all holier-than-
Which brings me to the final point - the information about the specific incident that inspired the "In Memoriam" e-mail - is reported almost entirely incorrectly.
Here is the real story.
This section removed at the insistence of the folks at snopes, but follow this link and read all about it:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/holocaust.asp
wrote:
Recently this week, the UK removed The Holocaust from its school curriculum
because it "offended" the Moslem population which claims it never occurred.
This is a frightening portent of the fear that is gripping the world and how
easily each country is giving into it.
It is now more than 60 years after the Second World War in Europe ended.
This e-mail is being sent as a memorial chain, in memory of the six million
Jews, 20 million Russians, 10 million Christians and 1,900 Catholic
priests who were murdered, massacred, raped, burned, starved and
humiliated with the German and Russia peoples looking the other way!
Now, more than ever, with Iran , among others, claiming the Holocaust to be
"a myth," it is imperative to make sure the world never forgets.
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