...is not something about which I think it is appropriate to label those who remember and deplore that historical event as comprising a "cult."
"Ohioan," how about some straight answers as to what precisely you mean with this "Cult of the Holocaust" business?
Thanks.
2. What in the introduction, posted, is not clear to you? I do not want to post any more of an essay that has nothing directly to do with the South honoring her heritage--although it certainly urges Jews to honor theirs as the effective answer to tragedy--as it gets us off on one of Mr. Espinola's tangents. If you are interested, why don't you simply click on the link, and read it: Cult Of The Holocaust. I believe the posted introduction will give you a good sense of the subject matter. But if you are interested, by all means read it. It was written to be read!
3. That said, I definitely believe that the tradtional Southerners, today, are being targetted by the Left in the same way the German Jews were targetted by the Left, from the 1840s until the Nazi slaughter, and for basically the same reason. But the above essay is more from the Jewish perspective. From the Southern perspective, you might read: Civil War, Reconstruction & Creating Hate In America Today.
4. I deal with the Leftist general hatred and persecution of high achievers in other essays. But I hesitate to use up bandwith to give you a comprehensive reading list. There are links from the essays in question--as well as to others which analyze the fallacies of every form of Socialism, not just their brutal cruelty.
People like Mr. Espinola, and others who have been ranting against the Southern tradition on this thread, probably do not see themselves as following in the Nazi footsteps. They have persuaded themselves--for whatever reason--that there was something evil about a large segment of the American tradition, and are indulging in a bit of feel good fanaticism. But the techniques are the same as the Nazis used to demonize the Jews--first spreading lies and half-truths, followed by the endless suggestion that other people were being victimized by conduct, which had never actually taken place, etc. When challenged, Espinola simply repeats the lie, as though it proves itself. (A technique employed by both Communists and Nazis, throughout their histories.)
It is interesting that the start of the attack on German Jewry--I mean the particular attack that the Nazis took up and followed through to the ghastly conclusion (1942 to 1945), the one which began by an essay of Karl Marx in the 1840s, suggesting that a World without Jews would be a good thing--began at approximately the same point in history as the Abolitionist misrepresentation of what actually was going on on the Southern Plantations, began. While the personnel conducting the smears were different, there are many, many historic parallels. So while my "Holocaust" essay is intended to clarify events from a Jewish, rather than Southern perspective, on a larger scale, both of the linked essays could be discussed in depth under the concept of the persecution of ethnic high achievers.
Finally, you suggest that I am suggesting that those who actually remember the events are the "Cult." Quite the contrary. The Cult is among those who simply insist on endlessly describing the thing in the same terminology, endlessly reciting packaging terms. You completely lose the feel for the millions of individual tragedies, in reducing the whole thing to cant. But even more important, you fail to really grasp the mindset that could cause the next recurrence. That mindset is out there now.