[Jonty30]

There’s nothing wrong or guilt-generating about having an accurate understanding of history. If you don’t have a good understanding as to what happened and why, there’s a good chance of another event like this happening again.

There’s almost nobody alive in the age range that would have had a hand in it, so almost nobody is responsible for what happened back then now. The youngest would have been born in the 1910-1920 range.

How many people do you know over 90?

[fr_freak]

There’s nothing wrong or guilt-generating about having an accurate understanding of history.

Yes, and I am disputing your historical claims in the interest of "accurate understanding". It is quite easy to look back, 70 years or so later, and say what should have been done in hindsight, with full knowledge of all implications, and then judge a country based on the fact that they didn't act 70 years ago with the knowledge one has now. If you had asked the average American, or even the average politician, back in the 1930s whether they believed the Europeans capable of shuffling Jews into gas chambers and slaughtering them by the thousands, you would have been met with an incredulous stare, as if you were a complete lunatic. Read the accounts of the soldiers who liberated the camps - they couldn't believe what they saw, they didn't think it possible. Certainly the civilians back home, before the US even entered the war, could not have believed it possible. It is in that light that you'd have to understand that a ship full of Jews from Europe in the 1930s would have been viewed as just another ship of eager immigrants - nothing else.

Trying to hang the guilt of actions taken by the very people who many American men died to stop around the neck of those same Americans is a reprehensible act of slavishness to anti-American cultural Marxism.