Howard Zinn on the Jewish Holocaust

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  • yosi
    yosi NYC Posts: 3,167
    I don't think knowledge of history is a disservice at all. We all too often are blinded by the immediacy of the present, we just get so wrapped up in it. I think a reminder that things can and have changed pretty quickly throughout history is a useful weapon against too much complacence.
    you couldn't swing if you were hangin' from a palm tree in a hurricane

  • redrock
    redrock Posts: 18,341
    yosi wrote:
    I don't think knowledge of history is a disservice at all.

    Knowledge of history (or your heritage as catefrances said) is not a disservice at all. It's what you do with it that can be. It seems you consider it as 'baggage' you are lugging around and that the message you wish to take from it is negative - that is the disservice.
  • ONCE DEVIDED
    ONCE DEVIDED Posts: 1,131
    Yosi
    Do you know that girl her story at all? Mo you based all your thoughts on her apearence her race.
    just as you feel that others think negatively towards you. you feel negativly against her. not in a hrmfull way but you place on her.
    I beleive most in this time are angered at the opression of the palestinians than at any historical context of views that led to the holocaust. or any earlier attacks on those of jewish faith.

    In the spirit of not allowing persecution of anybody, be they any religon or race. Would it not be wonderful for all who reside in that area of the world to lay down their anger and bitterness. To look back at the evils of the Holocaust and say NEVER AGAIN
    and I do mean all sides.
    I know its not gunna happen. but I live in hope.

    I would like to also thank you yosi. I always try my best to listen to all sides. to get the bigger picture. your views help broaden my mind. my ideas. Thanks for sharing.
    Know this your race your history only describes where you have come from. not where you going. it makes part of who you are but its not you
    AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE
  • Commy
    Commy Posts: 4,984
    yosi wrote:
    Ok, getting back to the original post, just read the first and last paragraphs. He starts out deploring that people use the memory of the holocaust to further their own political arguments, but then goes ahead and does just that.
    negative. he is trying to get us to learn from it, in order we prevent future holocausts, or current ones. not to profit monetarily or to get votes, or to gain sympathy. that's how they were using it, he is trying to prevent current and future holocausts.


    he spent his life learning from history, in order to prevent the mistakes of it.



    isn't that a noble cause, preventing genocide?

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