Posted on 01/30/2022 4:39:46 PM PST by Impala64ssa
Some obscure, small town Christian minister complains about a book, and the New York publishing establishment, libraries, and activists groups scream "Censorship!" and promote it at their "I read banned books!" events.
Meanwhile, all sorts of right-of-center books are quietly delisted on Amazon (disappearing, as though they never existed), and not one peep.
In the 1930s the Soviets genocided 7 to 11 million Ukrainians. A Holocaust by any standard. So naturally, the Ukrainians saw the Germans as liberators. The same as the Jews saw the Soviets in 1945.
When you're being genocided, you don't pay too close attention to who's liberating you
I have both read and listened to Murrows account of Buchenwald before. When we studied WW2 in school our teacher used his account of the conditions there and accounts of Auschwitz and other camps.
Büchenwald translated is Beech forest.
Very soothing sounding, isn’t it.
Thank you for the link.
Too late... Ha...
The Nazis may have been beady-eyed violent tyrants, but they weren’t stupid!
The problem with things like this is some kids can handle it in 8th grade and some can not.
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Gezz, kids back in my day had no problem with that stuff - and back then it was on every news reel before the movie. Later on, there were whole hours of it on TV when there were only 3 stations (if you were lucky). That may just show how out of touch with the natural world, how over-protected kids are these days.
Kids can take anything and thrive. Over-protection is what harms them.
Because for the Ukrainians, Stalin's atrocities against them were still fresh. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/jan/25/russia.books
No. They were completely "sanitized for your protection". Yes, even the stuff for adults.
Kids can take anything and thrive. Over-protection is what harms them.
The Teachers Union agrees with you. That is why they are pushing teaching kids about sodomy and kink when they are in kindergarten. Kids can take anything and thrive.
I have seen those news reels and TV shows.
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When you were a kid? Or when you were an adult?
As for the Teachers Unions, they have a different agenda and are not about educating kids, but about turning them into Dem voters and fodder for perverts.
I suppose I should have said something different, but I was going with the topic of the holocaust, not perversion..
Why isn’t just teaching the facts of the excesses of WWII enough.
It certainly was for us and it was fresh being only 20 years later
I’ll tell you why
Because fascist excess is the biggest tool the left has to handcuff nationalism and conservatism
That’s precisely why
Drilling in Holocaust guilt something you had nothing to do with handcuffs nationalistic pride like no other .....slavery is used similarly
Me either since I was a lad when it came out
As an adult I realized the agit prop it is
Many posters here in their perennial gullibility and need to be up to snuff on race
And view To Kill A Mockingbird and Deliverance as documentaries on the South
Banning book is stupid. Getting a handle on curriculum is important.
When you “ban” books, you simply draw attention to them.
But controlling the curriculum means that the purpose of assigning books in school is relevant to the course.
I’ve read most of the books on that list. Most of them are lousy reads. I cannot imagine why schools continue to force Catcher in the Rye on children. What a dreadful week of reading that was.
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