Posted on 01/29/2026 9:48:41 AM PST by ChessExpert
This is just one more example of a Tucker-Carlson-esque pattern of doing anything he can to avoid showing sympathy to Israel and the Jews. ...
Vance: "Today we remember the millions of lives lost during the Holocaust, the millions of stories of individual bravery and heroism, and one of the enduring lessons of one of the darkest chapters in human history: that while humans create beautiful things and are full of compassion, we're also capable of unspeakable brutality. And we promise never again to go down the darkest path."
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
” There would be no logical reason to mention the fact that Catholics were killed (unlike Jews or Gypsies) when remembering Holocaust. I guess there were some atheists murdered. Should that be mentioned?”
Absolutely yes. That is some top shelf, very brassy chutzpah to insist Holocaust remembrance should exclude Catholics or an atheist. It’s utterly childish and offensive.
We’ve been seeing signs for months that Ted Cruz is laying the groundwork with donors and evangelicals to challenge JDV from the right for the ‘28 nomination, with Ted’s main charge being that Vance is insufficiently loyal to Israel. I don’t think that’s ultimately going to be a winning strategy for Ted, but I am concerned that it’s going to split the base and perhaps weaken JD a bit.
“There were more Christian martyrs in the 20th century than in the early days of the Church. You don’t hear about it” from the pulpit.
Should people specifically say that some atheists were murdered in the Holocaust as part of Holocaust remembrance.
Should every single nationality and denomination be stated (French, Spanish, Lutheran, Methodist, Moravian)? How about people with deformities? Or speech impediments? Downs syndrome? Dwarfs? Etc?
If you think the answer is “yes” that’s weird.
Should people specifically say that some atheists were murdered in the Holocaust as part of Holocaust remembrance.
Should every single nationality and denomination be stated (French, Spanish, Lutheran, Methodist, Moravian)? How about people with deformities? Or speech impediments? Downs syndrome? Dwarfs? Etc?
If you think the answer is “yes” that’s weird.
No, you don’t. I think we’re in a comfortable, sleeping Christianity in the United States. What the Communists, anarchists, leftists and even quite a number of liberals and Democrats would do to us if the elections weren’t so close.
To my earlier point:
here is a link to a list of the huge list of authors published and/or publishing on American Thinker:
https://www.americanthinker.com/author/at_contributor/
I don’t think there is a consistent viewpoint on any issue across that large body of “writers”.
Exactly right.
Jews are sensitive the Holocaust. Irish are sensitive to the potato famine. Armenians are sensitive to episodes of genocide against them. Ukrainians are sensitive to the Holodomor. So far, human nature.
I hate to say this, but it is only some Jews who demand that everyone decry the Holocaust. Apparently doing so was not good enough in JD Vance’s case because he did not specifically mention Jews.
Too much shaming from blacks about slavery (never mentioning the slavery party) and too much self-sensitivity from Jews, have an effect that is the opposite of what is intended.
My attempted post at American Thinker is still pending. It’s been three hours now.
Imagine if there was a “gay” gene or an “tranny” gene and they were all aborted like Trisomy (9, 7, 8, 18, 17, 21...) babies. Abortion would be outlawed so fast. I think Scandinavian countries have aborted every single Down’s syndrome baby.
Rummel has kind of difficult numbers to find persuasive these days, I find. I think Rummel cited 27M due to the famines, and Dikötter 45M - the range of up to 77M taking the larger share though has some issues, even before he has changed his mind on the numbers since publishing the Black Book. This figure, though, isn’t the best one though since relatively contemporaneous countries developing closer to Western bylines, like India, saw worse famines as they transitioned their economies (India saw 80M deaths or so due to famines during their economic transition in the early 20th C, for example, along the same term of years as democide notes by Rummel in China.) It becomes easy to sideline the point that either these drastic famines are able to be noted during any major economic transition (whether India in the early 20th C., Meiji Japan, etc.) or that Mao even taken in least favorable terms is eclipsed by demographic shocks by other systems.
I tend to think that Rummel’s subsequent revisements, up to 148M nowadays, have also eroded a lot of his persuasive power. He’s responsive to criticisms about the conclusions he draws, but primarily responds with different data that abuts against where a reasonable consensus is rather than find a better point to make, IME. All of that boils down to that numbers don’t necessarily tell us something that’s independently meaningful or persuasive, even if the number is big.
I certainly would not be happy to learn that my child had Down’s syndrome.
Here’s a story that presents things differently. We had a pastor who participated in some get together for families with Down’s syndrome children. He did this every year. He sincerely thought these children were God’s gift to all of us. He said they were very loving. I suppose they were in a state of perpetual childhood. I suppose that if you spend an afternoon surrounded by loving children, it’s not so bad. I can imagine. Still, I’ll leave it there - imagining.
Dr. Rummel died in 2014. I don’t know if anyone can fill his shoes.
Thousands of Catholics, Roma/Gypsies in the 100s of thousand, and people often forget Protestant Christians as well. For example Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a Lutheran pastor and theologian leader of the Confessing Church (Lutheran) in Nazi Germany. The largest church of 18 million (in a country of 65 million people) of which Bonhoeffer was a leader/theologian, was the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union. The nazis worked diligently to dissolve this church,and sent many of the 3000 plus pastor to Concentration/death camps.
The Holocaust happened to all kinds of religious people— who would not submit to the Paganist Socialism of the Nazis— who, like all Socialists require their public to worship at the altar of all-controlling Socialist government— and have no religion but that.
I think you’ll find RJ Rummel not particularly responsive these days, on account of he died in 2014 ...
While the Jewish people are in the forefornt of the holocaust, they were not the only peoples who were targeted in that tragic event. Instead, of naming all of these different victims, he grouped them altogether for ease of presenting his tribute to the vicitms of the holocaust.
One of her other articles is to claim that Marco Rubo will be the one, not J.D. Vance, in the 2028 election. She may be right, but that is not because J.D. Vance is a virulent anti-semite. If anything it would be Marco's performance as the Sec. Of State. But I still believe that it will be J.D. Vance & Marco Rubio as VP. Followed by Marco Rubio as the Presidential candiadte, and hopefully President. 😁👍
It is unreadable at any rate,
More like non-existent
Occasionally there’s something good. But it looks like almost anyone can be published there...
Powerlineblog gave the BBC grief for saying that the day commemorates the six million people Hitler or the Nazis killed. I understand the anger and reproach for their not specifying that Jews were killed, but also — those killed were people.
Haha, yea - it’s is a typo for my sloppy typing getting hit by autocorrect instead of it was. Point being, his stronger arguments have always been the marriage of power and ideology that he connects as the driving factor overriding normal restraints we see elsewhere, over the numbers (which have had some issues.)
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