Posted on 07/01/2019 7:01:09 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
More than 300 scholars have signed onto an open letter urging the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum to retract its statement that rejects comparisons between migrant detention facilities and concentration camps.
"The Museums decision to completely reject drawing any possible analogies to the Holocaust, or to the events leading up to it, is fundamentally ahistorical," the scholars write in a write in a letter letter published in The New York Review of Books. "It has the potential to inflict severe damage on the Museums ability to continue its role as a credible, leading global institution dedicated to Holocaust memory, Holocaust education, and research in the field of Holocaust and genocide studies."
The letter, which is addressed to museum director Sara J. Bloomfield, goes on to argue that the "very core of Holocaust education is to alert the public to dangerous developments that facilitate human rights violations and pain and suffering; pointing to similarities across time and space is essential for this task."
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) last month sparked massive pushback after equating migrant detention facilities near the U.S.-Mexico border to concentration camps.
Many Republican lawmakers called for Ocasio-Cortez to apologize, though the freshman lawmaker has stood by her comments. She's said that she would never "apologize for calling these camps what they are."
The Holocaust Museum said in a statement at the time that it "unequivocally rejects efforts to create analogies between the Holocaust and other events, whether historical or contemporary."
"The Museum further reiterates that a statement ascribed to a Museum staff historian regarding recent attempts to analogize the situation on the United States southern border to concentration camps in Europe during the 1930s and 1940s does not reflect the position of the Museum," it said on its website.
The Holocaust Museum did not immediate respond to a request for comment on the letter from The Hill.
The scholars take issue with the museum's stance, saying it represents a "radical position that is far removed from mainstream scholarship on the Holocaust and genocide."
"And it makes learning from the past almost impossible," the letter says, before concluding that it hopes the museum will continue to be a place from which the world can learn.
Nazi Germany erected concentration camps in the 1930s to hold Jewish people and other political prisoners under harsh conditions, ultimately killing millions.
President Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration has led to the expansion of migrant detention centers along the southern border and has drawn scrutiny for overcrowded facilities.
Ocasio-Cortez on Monday was one of several Democratic lawmakers who visited a migrant detention facility as Customs and Border Protection faces criticism over the conditions to which detainees are exposed.
AOC would not know WHAT Kampuchea was, let alone find it on a map.
...”300 idiots.”...
YES! This is what happens when new generations come along who are far removed from the events of the past. Very few have read or watched documentaries of what happened in the real concentration camps under Hitler’s socialism/communism. The other thing is that those who seem so ignorant may not be ignorant at all in many cases but, in fact, just do not care about the suffering of those they oppose. I would be willing to bet that these are the same people who delight in an abortion industry which does not see anything wrong with the murder of babies up until birth and even, infanticide, after birth if the baby is born alive. They hate those whose do not see life exactly as they do and, probably, would love to set up more concentration camps, sort of like those we read about in the holocaust, for their perceived enemies. I have watched these people, on the left, and in the leftist media all through the Obama years up until now, and, in my long lifetime, have never seen such distortions of the truth or such hatred in my country. Anyone who does not understand the danger the US is in from the violence, hate and fake perceptions coming from the left need to begin an honest investigation of US history as opposed to World history and then make up his/her own mind about how to respond to whatever the future holds. May God bind the evil now besetting us and show us how to truly love Him and others, no matter who or what they are.
Did you go through the list of the signatories available at the link?
A who’s who of people I’ve never heard of teaching courses at places I’d never entrust with my kid.
And I see the word “emeritus” quite a bit.
SNORT.
Universities have become mental concentration camps.
These scholars are also anti-Israel.
If Israel opened their borders to millions of Muslims...well, can you say Holocaust II?
“300 idiots.”
They need to be outed.
The concentration camps were DEATH and TORTURE camps! The illegals from mehico, Guatemala, Honduras, Haiti, Dominican republic, el Salvador live better than at home the moment they are taken into custody!
If people from around the world are streaming in for the chance to stay there... then it isn't a Concentration Camp.
If no work is required, no random punishments are handed out, and no human experimentation is being done... then it isn't a Concentration Camp.
If people aren't being lined up for mass executions... then it isn't a Concentration Camp.
If people aren't being kept permanently against their will... then it isn't a Concentration Camp.
If people are not being starved to death... then it isn't a Concentration Camp.
Liberals are soooo desperate to pretend they are fighting the great monsters from history (helping illegals is the Underground Railroad, the NBA is slavery, etc). Those Virtue Signal addictions are a bitch to shake.
...according to 300 antisemitic "scholars" who are so very concerned about the holocaust museum's credibility.
OK let’s LOOK at the comparison!
Damn leftists are pissing me off! How dare they...?
How dare they do most of what they do?
Simple: There are no questionings, no accountability, no repercussions, no backlash, no impeachment, no charges, no punishment, no imprisonment.
How would 14 year olds behave in those circumstances?
Proggies/lefties are intellectually stuck at about that age. Adult children. They dare quite easily.
Scholars = Leftist propagandists
Hence the push by teachers, profs, MSM and rats for college for all. College is Socialization Indoctrination Level II (Socialization Indoctrination Level I is our pubic schools).
Do they really want to make a list?
They are just too stupid.
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The letter is here on NY Review of Books, a scholarly publication I'm sure. Interesting they didn't complain to Yad Vashem.
Hundreds of “scholars” couldn’t possibly be wrong!
I’ve been to Yad Vashem.
I don’t think Sandy(AOC) has been there.
“very core of Holocaust education is to alert the public to dangerous developments that facilitate human rights violations and pain and suffering; pointing to similarities across time and space is essential for this task”
There are two major ways where that statement from the so-called scholars is an intellectual lie.
1. Illegal aliens do not have a “civil right” to illegally enter a country because they chose to. The Jews rounded up in the Holocaust were legal citizens or legal residents of the nations from which they were rounded up, or legal citizens or residents of the nations they fled from before being rounded up in the nations they had fled to. There is zero “civil rights” comparison between the Jews rounded up in the Holocaust and illegal aliens.
2. The Holocaust primarily singled out a single ethnic group as its essential victims - the Jews. U.S. laws against illegal aliens crossing the U.S. border are not executed with discrimination - enforced against only some and not others. Again the “civil rights” comparison by the scholars is false.
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