Academics Replace Hitler with Uncle Sam in New Holocaust Study

Lisa Makson ^ | January 27, 2003 | FrontPageMagazine.com

[Tijeras_Slim]

The left's trivialization of the Holocaust and genocide accomplishes one thing.
It makes it easier for it all to happen again.

[VoodooEconomics]

"Contextualizing" is fancy for moral relativism. Using moral relativism these authors can argue every nation, every person and each event - is as immoral as the next.

[veronica]

These people are insane. That they actually teach and publish their dreck is sickening.

[WorkingClassFilth]

I'm still waiting for the exhaustive study coming out of Berkeley focussing on connections between Left-wing politics and the murder of 150-200 million citizens of countries unders such systems in the last century. That should be a really provocative ground-breaking study. In fact, I really would settle for some extensive academic research into the connections of American Leftist organizations and personalities and international Marxist agendas. Should I hold my breath?

[MWS]

"Contextualizing U.S. practice and policy within a discourse of genocide would help … this country’s citizens to stop idealizing this nation as the best and most free."

This line says it all about what these people are trying to do. Groups like this never cease to make me laugh...

[AnAmericanMother]

[Irene Adler]

Sadly, significant elements of this negative interpretation of U.S. history filter down into public school coverage continuously. That's been going on for a long time.

[SJackson]

If you'd like to be on or off this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.

[livius]

Sadly, significant elements of this negative interpretation of U.S. history filter down into public school coverage continuously

This is one of the most disturbing aspects of this stuff. These biased and delusional theories have infected textbooks and are presented to young children as fact.

[ravingnutter]

Oh, yes...let's talk about racial genocide...these are the same people that would follow the ideals of this woman under the guise of "the right to choose"...

Margaret Sanger, who founded Planned Parenthood in a two-room shack in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn in 1923, remains a hero to the abortion movement and a "liberator" to the prestige press. Sanger outlined her beliefs in several books, and in her monthly magazine entitled Birth Control Review. In Pivot of Civilization, first published in 1922, she described her objectives: "More children from the fit, less from the unfit--that is the chief aim of birth control." The people Sanger considered unfit were "all non-aryan people." She estimated that these people--the "dysgenic races"--comprised 70 percent of the American population. Sanger believed that this "great biological menace to the future of civilization . . . deserved to be treated like criminals." She proposed to "segregate morons who are increasing and multiplying." Successful implementation of her proposals, according to her, would result in "a race of thoroughbreds."

The similarity to Nazi ideas was not a coincidence. As George Grant points out in his history of Planned Parenthood, Grand Illusions (1988), Sanger devoted the entire April 1933 issue of Birth Control Review to eugenics. One of the articles, "Eugenic Sterilization: An Urgent Need," was written by Ernst Rudin, Hitler's director of genetic sterilization and a founder of the Nazi Society for Racial Hygiene. While Sanger's early campaign was aimed primarily at east Europeans, in 1939 she began to target blacks by creating the "Negro Project," to promote birth control and sterilization specifically within the black community. To carry out her plan, she sought the support of prominent black ministers and political leaders. She wrote, "The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We do not want the word to get out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it occurs to any of their more rebellious members." The implications of the Negro Project are all but ignored in Ellen Chesler's adoring new biography Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America.1

The White Lie

I guess I will never understand liberal thinking, there is absolutely no logic involved...they really disgust me.

[CobaltBlue]

Would it make you feel any better if you knew that Margaret Sanger really didn't say those things which have been attributed to her?

I have a couple of her books, and she really promoted contraception, not abortion.

[tallhappy]

Why are you trying to misrepresent Sanger who was racist and eugenist?

[ZinGirl]

This project is the brainchild of Robert Soza, a University of California--Berkeley American Studies Ph.D. candidate

shock

[CaptRon]

"Our hopes are we will strike a chord with those who are struck by the overwhelming focus given to the Jewish Holocaust. We see a lot of potential for this with Ethnic Studies and from scholars of color, who know all to well the silencing of other historical narrative," Leonard said.

Translation: "You can't out-victim us!"

[HighRoadToChina]

BFL

[Dionysius]

43,000,000 and counting -- the largest holocaust of all.
When Soza makes it to hell, as he surely will, the temperature there will go up a few degrees.

[CobaltBlue]

Well, for example, Margaret Sanger resigned as editor of the Birth Control Review in 1929, so could not have devoted an entire issue to eugenics in 1933.
http://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger/bcr.htm

[hedgetrimmer]

"critical" in front of the name of any class in modern academia has its origins with the marxists from the Frankfurt School, that fled Germany before WWII. They developed a way of deconstructing a culture called "critical theory" which is basically a way to criticize everything about a culture. It was part of plans they had made in Germany to bring the German Culture, then their adopted home, American Culture to oblivion. Upon their arrival in the US they immediately infiltrated the teaching, law, psychiatric and social studies professions. When students hear only critical things about a culture, they begin to believe it is bad. The deconstruction of our founding fathers and criticizem of our type of government that is creating a nation of people ignorant of the value of our culture can be tied to the Frankfurt school and its "professors"

Remember the phrase "Make love not war"? Brainchild of a frankfurt school professor teaching at UC San Diego. It figured pretty greatly in the demonstrations against the Viet Nam War, didn't it?

[CaptainJustice]

Ugh, these people make me sick.

To hear the guy actually admit that his aim is to make people hate america is beyond sick. He has a cushy professorship over here in the People's Republic of California (PRC) and he wants to talk crap on this country that made it possible for him to be there. You think there is any Iraqi professors talking bad about Iraq? Ha!

This clown and his PRC bretheren need to put up or shut up. Either get out of this country and start your own, or shut up and support your country. At least the French have the decency to talk crap from their villas and hurl their brie at the TV screen, not get tenure at UC - Stalingrad/Berkeley.