Posted on 04/08/2021 11:00:29 AM PDT by Marchmain
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on Holocaust Remembrance Day:
Observing Holocaust Remembrance Day is special for Jews around the world, but it should also be recognized by those of us who are not Jewish. There are many things that we can learn from this monstrous event, among them being the seminal moral lessons that it bequeathed.
At Nuremberg, the standard Nazi defense was to claim that they were only doing what they were instructed to do. It did not work. The London Charter of the International Military Tribunal determined that “following orders” did not exonerate them. Though the Tribunal did not explicitly invoke natural law—e.g., we know in our heart of hearts that certain acts, such as the killing of innocents, is wrong—it essentially validated what Aristotle broached and what the Catholic Church later pioneered.
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“There is no such thing as truth, either in the moral or in the scientific sense.” Many professors and their students would fully endorse this view today. Hitler is the author. .... The idea that there are no objective meanings also marks deconstruction, a school of thought that originated in France in the 1960s; Jacques Derrida is its intellectual father. In this country, his views achieved currency through Paul de Man. Many intellectuals were shocked when it was revealed that de Man had been a Nazi collaborator in Belgium. If they understood the logical consequences of denying moral truths, they wouldn’t have been shocked.
Or in today’s terms: Holocaust?
“At Nuremberg, the standard Nazi defense was to claim that they were only doing what they were instructed to do.”
Isn’t this what we hear every time Democrat operated police departments do something stupid, malicious, or evil?
My point is that the Democrats are the Nazis they accuse everyone else of being.
I’ve never witnessed more vicious, dogmatic and sanctimonious moralizing, than what I hear spouted by those that proclaim that there are no moral truths.
These days the moral of the holocaust is that all white people are born bad—especially white men. That’s the crux of critical race theory that’s taught in schools. The corollary to this is that for now white people are allowed to remain alive as long as they pay their white people tax. This is a variation on the moslem Dhimmī jizya tax.
Blindly following the rules, like a mask-nazi.
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