Posted on 07/07/2019 4:07:40 AM PDT by Kaslin
“...While the NY Times is suspect in general this looked like a good article to me....” [JayGalt, post 117 - first cite of nybooks.com article by Timothy Snyder appeared in JayGalt’s post 59]
The New York Review of Books began publishing early in the 1960s. Publishing every two weeks, it’s never been associated with the newspaper, The New York Times (which also publishes New York Times Magazine and The New York Times Book Review).
To add to the confusion, NYRB is sometimes referred to as a “paper.” It spawned offshoots in London (1979) and Italy (1990), and started its own publishing division (New York Review Books) in 1999.
NYT is more than Leftist enough; NYRB has always gone well beyond that. Esquire magazine fawningly praised it as “the premier literary-intellectual magazine in the English language;” the late Tom Wolfe described NYRB as “the chief theoretical organ of radical chic.”
They sure don’t cater to the climate change denier crowd!
And that was censored for grade school consumption. They left out a lot of the horrible tortures and experiments.
“I can’t say the Holocaust is a factual, historical event because I am not in a position to do so as a school district employee,” Latson wrote.”
Well my name is Billy Batson and I say Shazam ! I don’t wanna be a turd in the punchbowl I want to soar? Your joice, this is America !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSpBwt4hFN8
“...but not to value and mourn each individual death we learn of, is to dehumanize ourselves...” [JayGalt, post 120]
Which is more important: to not “dehumanize” ourselves, or to survive?
I’m taking a risk here, assuming that “dehumanize” means giving up this or that aspect of our moral code.
I would not doubt that is right but I suspect the school had an Islamic faction as well.
According to this article Mr Latson got the heave ho!
I think what we have here is a failure to communicate. You set up false dichotomies: is it more important to survive or to retain our humanity? Who defined that as the choice we have to make?
The idiocy with the holocausts and choice of articles is similarly inane. I found out in working on my comments for this thread that there is a body of academics who believe that there are revisionists at work changing history to white wash certain groups and another group of academics who believe there are valid points to be made in analysis of events and comparisons.
This is not a controversy I want to be involved in. It appears that you have strong feelings about the issues and want to “prove” your superior understanding and the fecklessness of any who see the world differently.
Peace be with you.
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