I'd love to go on one of those Holotour humiliation rituals with a bunch of somber Jewish leaders and just be like, "meh, looks like it sucked for whoever was there. Doesn't have anything to do with me today though."
Seriously though, what's with the shoes? Every boomer I know talks about them whenever someone dares criticize Israel. Why is that specific thing their "gotcha" when it comes to Our Greatest Ally?
If you have ever toured Auschwitz-Birkenau (I have, not sure about other places) they put on a very good presentation. I had difficulty understanding it all at the time, no difficulty any more, all is clear in my mind.
I just love how nobody ever has to visit Ukraine or Cambodia or Rwanda when engaging in genocidal rhetoric against supposedly "privileged" groups. Even now, when everybody's expected to pretend like Ukraine's government dindu nuffin and was attacked by Russia because Putin's just a big meanie, Holodomor denial is still kosher.
Drives me nuts because the Holodomor gives a lot more moral weight to the Ukrainian side, it would be nice to be able to finally acknowledge that Stalin really was just as bad as Hitler (arguably even worse). But nah, at a time when Putin's government is promoting historical revisionism in an attempt at rehabilitating Stalin's image, we still get nothing from Hollywood, from public school curriculum, from mainstream documentaries and "infotainment." Let alone anything depicting the mass murder, torture, and rape of civilians by Soviet forces, the mercilessness with which Soviet conscripts were sent to their deaths, the fact that we now know Stalin was planning on invading Europe which prompted Operation Barbarossa in the first place, etc.
Really makes you think, our media and schooling apparatus has always kicked into high gear to get the public to see our geopolitical adversaries as monsters. Yet for some reason, there's almost nothing being produced about the horrors of the Bolsheviks, the gulags, the Holodomor or Stalin in general, or about the horrors of the Cultural Revolution considering that China is getting more bold with throwing their military weight around.
Have you been to the Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh? It is worth a trip.
The museum itself used to be a school that was used by the Khmer Rouge as a facility to torture countless people to death.
I am an Aussie and Australia is quite close, geographically, to Cambodia. I was growing up when the Khmer Rouge was exterminating 40% of the population of that nation, and it wasn't mentioned even once.
The passive aggressive and controlling always hate the aggressive and assertive. Plus the commies had a lot of Jews, which keeps them from getting painted in as bad a light as the Nazis.
I have a question, for those educated in the knowledge necessary, what did the old WASP elite truly think of all this? Sure, you had the odd Henry Ford who was sympathetic to Nazism, and the odd Charles Lindberg who wanted to keep America out of another war, but... The rest seemed to be all in, or easily fooled into being all in. Were they lefties? And where are they now? Moldbug said the old Anglo families got absorbed by the 90s into the "American elite"... But what does that mean?
He’s gonna have to look at so many piles of shoes.
I'd love to go on one of those Holotour humiliation rituals with a bunch of somber Jewish leaders and just be like, "meh, looks like it sucked for whoever was there. Doesn't have anything to do with me today though."
Seriously though, what's with the shoes? Every boomer I know talks about them whenever someone dares criticize Israel. Why is that specific thing their "gotcha" when it comes to Our Greatest Ally?
it's all about brand awareness
Thank you for that.
If you have ever toured Auschwitz-Birkenau (I have, not sure about other places) they put on a very good presentation. I had difficulty understanding it all at the time, no difficulty any more, all is clear in my mind.
What
He's German and has to see it for school or something.
"Hey those Puma shoes were made after 1945..."
"This exhibit is closed!"
I just love how nobody ever has to visit Ukraine or Cambodia or Rwanda when engaging in genocidal rhetoric against supposedly "privileged" groups. Even now, when everybody's expected to pretend like Ukraine's government dindu nuffin and was attacked by Russia because Putin's just a big meanie, Holodomor denial is still kosher.
Drives me nuts because the Holodomor gives a lot more moral weight to the Ukrainian side, it would be nice to be able to finally acknowledge that Stalin really was just as bad as Hitler (arguably even worse). But nah, at a time when Putin's government is promoting historical revisionism in an attempt at rehabilitating Stalin's image, we still get nothing from Hollywood, from public school curriculum, from mainstream documentaries and "infotainment." Let alone anything depicting the mass murder, torture, and rape of civilians by Soviet forces, the mercilessness with which Soviet conscripts were sent to their deaths, the fact that we now know Stalin was planning on invading Europe which prompted Operation Barbarossa in the first place, etc.
Really makes you think, our media and schooling apparatus has always kicked into high gear to get the public to see our geopolitical adversaries as monsters. Yet for some reason, there's almost nothing being produced about the horrors of the Bolsheviks, the gulags, the Holodomor or Stalin in general, or about the horrors of the Cultural Revolution considering that China is getting more bold with throwing their military weight around.
Have you been to the Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh? It is worth a trip.
The museum itself used to be a school that was used by the Khmer Rouge as a facility to torture countless people to death.
I am an Aussie and Australia is quite close, geographically, to Cambodia. I was growing up when the Khmer Rouge was exterminating 40% of the population of that nation, and it wasn't mentioned even once.
I haven't, but I plan on doing so in the future.
The passive aggressive and controlling always hate the aggressive and assertive. Plus the commies had a lot of Jews, which keeps them from getting painted in as bad a light as the Nazis.
I have a question, for those educated in the knowledge necessary, what did the old WASP elite truly think of all this? Sure, you had the odd Henry Ford who was sympathetic to Nazism, and the odd Charles Lindberg who wanted to keep America out of another war, but... The rest seemed to be all in, or easily fooled into being all in. Were they lefties? And where are they now? Moldbug said the old Anglo families got absorbed by the 90s into the "American elite"... But what does that mean?