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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI used to teach the Holocaust in high school. This was during the 70s, 80s and 90s
...I showed a horrific film called "Night and Fog." That film defined and showed the Holocaust in ways no other did. Dead bodies, Gas Rooms, witnesses, etc. During the time I was teaching this, I would read about a very small group of "Holocaust Deniers" In spite of all the proof, and living witnesses, they still denied it happened.
...I watched part of the hearing today. I couldn't take it, so I cleaned the house I live in. I also played some quiet music. There they were live and talking up a storm, the same minded people denying the evil and illegal events that Trump and his gang carried out. The gang must protect their leader no matter what. Where are those few honest Republicans who say, "Trump is a liar, was a liar, and always has been a liar."
... "He is lying about this too."
Where are the honest ones? Are there any left? Even two or three? "Our leader is a fucking liar". Who is going to say that in the Republican Party? (or words to that effect) Everyone sees it and knows he is. Why do they follow the leader like this? With Nixon there were those who sided with those searching for the truth. How come we see no Republicans on the side of the truth? Are all the witnesses lying or is Donald Trump lying? That one is so simple. How come Republicans don't see it, but the rest of us do?
PSPS
(13,614 posts)Believe me, they do see it. They just place a higher value on keeping their jobs. They will get primaried out of existence if they don't toe the line, plus they make a lot of money selling their influence (i.e., bribery.)
Turbineguy
(37,364 posts)told me that by 1942 it was widely known that extermination camps existed even though the Nazis were in full control of the media.
keithbvadu2
(36,890 posts)Some deny the holocaust... Some brag about it.
America fought a war against the Nazis and supposedly won.
Yet here they are in Charlottesville marching to "take back America".
KKK Conservative boasting:
We killed six million Jews the last time, he answered. Eleven million is nothing.
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/nation-world/national/article167939222.html
lunatica
(53,410 posts)The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
― Edmund Burke.
. "There are people who walk against the wind. Then, there are people who pee against the wind."
--Mirtunjay Upadhyay
"Foolproof systems do not take into account the ingenuity of fools."
--Gene Brown
There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
― Soren Kierkegaard
I became good at pretending. I became so good that after a while the lines blurred between my truth and fiction. And sometimes, when I did a really good job of pretending, I even fooled myself.
― Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea