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 Museum’s 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 Museum’s 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.
Those who make such a comparison know better; they don't care anyway about the Holocaust. They hate Jews and would happily join "Palestinians" [sic] in destroying Israel, and all Jews for that matter. Obama sat in a "church" for 20 years where it was preached every week.
*Then this is the only concentration camp in the world where people climb the fence to get in.
Now, it will be acceptable for Antifa to beat Holocaust Museum staff with bikelocks, crowbars and thrown cement milkshakes.
Stalinists lie. Always.
Were any of these academidiots among those blaming the 9-11 attacks on those INSIDE the tower dying that day, Little Eichmanns?
*Then this is the only concentration camp in the world where people climb the fence to get in.
I bet these “scholars” all are degenerate leftist lunatics and perverts. What nitwits. These so-called “scholars” should be beaten with their fraudulent, worthless dissertations.
This type of stupidity will not die anytime soon without repercussions! It all boils down to it’s either freedom or socialism and I am yet to see the freedom fighters start making an impact! On the contrary they’re kicking their butts!! This insanity is not going to stop until we start taking to the streets!
Here is the link to the Open Letter.
Maybe we should FREEP the letter. You know, have some notable scholars sign the letter such as:
Dr. Rosencrantz and Dr. Guildenstern, University of Denmark
Dr. Barney Rubble, Rockhead State
Dr. Randolph P. McMurphy, University of Oregon
Dr. Jimmy and Mr. Jim, Brighton University
Dr. Chaim Gene Love, Haifa
Oops..they are kicking our butts!
A not thinly veiled threat. Join us or we will shut down your funding. No dissent allowed.
TRUE. Of course the 300 “scholars” look like FOOLS, as well as LEFTIST RADICALS.
(NO scholar of normal IQ & legitimate academic credentials would sign such utter nonsense.)
Yours, TMN78247
My dad and his buddies freed those in nazis concentration camps. No one ever voluntarily entered Germany to climb over the fence to get into those
places. These scholars are morons x 10. I
These 300 scholars just threw every victim of the Holocaust under the bus to defend the wack job AOC.
Maybe that would get the authorities off of their lard bottoms. Or not.
Let’s ask the Armenians.
“...then these “hundreds of scholars” must be deemed to be of single digit IQ...or psychotic...or absolutely amoral.”
Highly indoctrinated.
Ignorant.
Trained to follow.
Emotion-based.
Immature.
Atheist.
UnAmerican.
Cognitively dissonant.
Suffering TDS.
Adult children.
Throw temper tantrums.
Possibly demon-possessed.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.