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"Dimestore Mussolini": Steve

artappraiser — Sun, 20 Sep 2020 03:55:23 +0000

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"Dimestore Mussolini": Steve Schmidt rant

@SteveSchmidtSES https://t.co/ZrbBpOpBqG
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) September 18, 2020

Miller's idol, lover of

NCD — Fri, 18 Sep 2020 19:48:47 +0000

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Miller's idol, lover of deportation lists, plague on the weak, and the desperate like Miller. Note the beady, icy venomous eyes of both?

Heydrich, main architect of the Holocaust, assassinated by Czech partisans in 1942.

Uyghurs Concentration Camps

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 18 Sep 2020 10:40:00 +0000

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Uyghurs Concentration Camps and massive breadth of work internment revealed

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/18/clues-to-scale-of-xinjiang...

now that's our Pee Wee!

artappraiser — Thu, 17 Sep 2020 22:17:55 +0000

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now that's our Pee Wee!

Norman Rockwell history for

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 17 Sep 2020 22:14:00 +0000

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Norman Rockwell history for Dummies while the mob takes the cadavers out the back.

From the Puffer thread:

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 17 Sep 2020 22:12:21 +0000

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From the Puffer thread:

Turns out joking about WWII unnecessary - fewer and fewer have any idea what happened. Poor Belushi, one of his most memorable lines will now just draw blank states. 10% think the *Jews* started the Holocaust, and those camps burned into our brains - Bergen-Belsen, Dachau, Treblinka, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Terezín, Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen... - are just odd bits of foreign word salad. Which I guess is only fair - we don't know any camp names from The Killing Fields or Rwanda or the last war in Congo or The Great Leap Forward or Hotel Rwanda... The closest is the disintegration of Yugoslavia, cuz it's in Europe.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/16/holocaust-us-adults-study

and yup:

artappraiser — Thu, 17 Sep 2020 22:10:50 +0000

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and yup:

Prediction: A national debate between 1619’s version of history and Trump’s is going to leave a lot of people on the sidelines.
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) September 17, 2020

Actually I imagine what Trump is visualizing is digging out those 1910 grade school history textbooks with pictures of the boy George Washington chopping down the cherry tree and the dashing and wondrous midnight ride of Paul Revere...

Admit I thought of NCD when I

artappraiser — Thu, 17 Sep 2020 21:57:35 +0000

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Admit I thought of NCD when I saw this picture commentary on today's Trump b.s. culture wars ~~announcement~~ attempt at distraction:

And who is leading today's American Hitler Youth? Stephen Miller! pic.twitter.com/krTERtB1A1
— MissVitriolic (@MissVitriolic) September 17, 2020

lots of people are making the connection with the Hitler Youth. Trump of course wouldn't get any of that as he knows little history of any kind, still waiting for Frederick Douglass to show up to dinner. The whole thing including the Nat. Archives location pretty much does look like Pee Wee German's idea (Jvanka don't go there, not the history types. DeVos lacks that certain "patriotic" fervor needed. Who else would it be?)

It's easiest, and for short

NCD — Thu, 17 Sep 2020 01:54:50 +0000

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It's easiest, and for short attention span Americans particularly, to assume the Holocaust was 'bad', but 'probably exaggerated'. Getting 'woke' to the industrialized mass murder of millions of men, women and children is hard to conceive, psychologically disturbing, and can only be firmly grasped with hours of reading and education. There is no point in teaching history of America or the world without a deep and thorough education on the Holocaust.

In 'Salvaged Pages' by Alexandra Zapruder, a compilation of recovered diaries of young Jews, mostly in eastern Europe, and mostly writers who disappeared into the death camps of Belzec, Sobibor, Auschwitz and Treblinka, the diary authors themselves are never completely certain the 'deported' are actually going to be killed. They could not conceive of killing on that scale. This is even though, in these eastern areas, from Poland to the Baltic states, every Jew was witness to roundups, peremptory street executions and mass murder of hundreds by bullets, outside their villages and cities by Germans. They were also aware and exposed to the virulent dehumanizing Nazi race propaganda that blamed everything from the war to food shortages on Jews, used as 'justification' for abhorrent crimes.