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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Trump Administration's Flirtation With Holocaust Denial
The White House statement on Holocaust Remembrance day did not mention Jews or antisemitism.
Holocaust denial is alive and well in the highest offices of the United States. It is being spread by those in President Trumps innermost circle. It may have all started as a mistake by a new administration that is loath to admit its wrong. Conversely, it may be a conscious attempt by people with antisemitic sympathies to rewrite history. Either way it is deeply disturbing.
The de-Judaization of the Holocaust, as exemplified by the White House statement, is what I term softcore Holocaust denial.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/01/the-trump-administrations-softcore-holocaust-denial/514974/
Holocaust denial is alive and well in the highest offices of the United States. It is being spread by those in President Trumps innermost circle. It may have all started as a mistake by a new administration that is loath to admit its wrong. Conversely, it may be a conscious attempt by people with antisemitic sympathies to rewrite history. Either way it is deeply disturbing.
The de-Judaization of the Holocaust, as exemplified by the White House statement, is what I term softcore Holocaust denial.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/01/the-trump-administrations-softcore-holocaust-denial/514974/
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The Trump Administration's Flirtation With Holocaust Denial (Original Post)
DemocratSinceBirth
Jan 2017
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Girard442
(6,074 posts)1. Bunch of dog-whistling chickenshits. NT
HassleCat
(6,409 posts)2. Any telling of the holocaust story has to begin with Jews.
Just as our civil war was primarily about slavery. The Nazis widened the scope of their persecution and murder to include gypsies, disabled people, etc. But their primary focus always remained eliminating Jews from Europe. Any effort to minimize that important fact is dishonest at the very least, and probably evil.
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)3. Spicer was saying no one has been a better friend to Israel...
than this administration - which is now approaching two weeks old.
The bloviating hyperbole of excessive unsubstantiated rhetoric regarding the Corrupt One must be THE number one job requirement of his sycophants.
Lindsay
(3,276 posts)4. Flirtation?
That's a marriage, and it's been consummated.
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)5. The Nazi House
Hekate
(90,690 posts)6. Flirtation? We've passed beyond dogwhistle and into town cryer territory.
God help us.