*Includes concrete floors, locks, in-door porta-potties, and razor wire.
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.
*Includes concrete floors, locks, in-door porta-potties, and razor wire.
The reason they don’t languish on shelves is that they teach a class and then require the students to buy the book.
More “consensus” BS.
I agree.
FU ... you can walk away from the border.
Without it AOC and her cult look like idiots.
They're reduced to begging for permission and their blessing.
Who cares what the political science and public administration majors think.
A month or so ago, MHZ ran a two part dramatization of a Danish investigator's experiences looking in to the Khmer Rouge's crimes.
It was claimed that at one point during the visit Patton moved away from the group for a moment and became physically ill.
More than 300 Jew haters have signed onto an open letter urging the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum to retract its statement that rejects comparisons between the illegal’s detention facilities and concentration camps.
...oh and deny what happened with the Jews while your at it.
Or is it the same scholars that told us DDT was making eagle eggs too fragile for their mothers to sit upon?
Or the same scholars that told us we were entering into another ice age?
Or was it the same scholars that...
Which reminds me, I have a Chinese-American friend who scoffs at Americans who believe that all Chinese people are geniuses.
Missing the real point. They are the only concentration camps that you can leave anything you want. No one is keeping you there.
There is no similarity between Nazi death camps and border facilities, that is plain.
There is an adjective to modify “scholars” that is noticeably missing.
Hundreds of HOLOCAUST scholars?
Nope, just scholars
So in other words, hundreds of Trump-hating eggheads with no significant connection to that genocidal event, who are presumptuously telling genuine Jewish Holocaust scholars whether this particular historical comparison is valid.
What’s next, Trump insulting Rosie O’Donnell is akin to Nazis sending Jews to gas chambers? Well, don’t ask the Holocaust Museum ... ask these “scholars”!
Yeah, I see it now, the camps at the border are just like the ones my grandparents were put in. Sure. IF MY GRANDPARENTS HAD BEEN TRYING TO GET OUT OF THEIR COUNTRY (GERMANY) AND ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE BORDER, SWITZERLAND PUT THEM INTO CAMPS. Because it’s not like my well to do grandparents were just living their lives, running their businesses, paying taxes, not asking for a thing, right?
Not the same ones, but the same TYPE.
If they could they would make approving of him a crime.
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