http://www.frumforum.com/memory-in-full Building a conservatism that can win again Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:50:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.frumforum.com/memory-in-full/comment-page-1#comment-45718 sinz54 Sat, 06 Jun 2009 11:45:12 +0000 #comment-45718 ltwpolitics: I'm with you. I don't understand this new meme from David Frum.<br><br>Yesterday, another article mentioned the Nazi murders of gays, gypsies, Slavs, etc., alongside the Nazi murder of Jews, as if they were all equivalent. That contradicts decades of mainstream history that the Nazis had a special obsession with eliminating Jews specifically. (Which seems to be true; in Mein Kampf, Hitler didn't mention gypsies much, and he never called for the destruction of gays. But he ranted about Jews, on and on and on.)<br><br>If Obama had just mentioned the genocide of Jews alongside all these other groups, he would have been criticized by many Jews, both here and in Israel and in Europe, for trivializing the Jewish experience.<br><br>Since I don't like to spin paranoid conspiracy theories, I will not speculate as to why New Majority has taken this tack.<br> ltwpolitics: I’m with you. I don’t understand this new meme from David Frum.Yesterday, another article mentioned the Nazi murders of gays, gypsies, Slavs, etc., alongside the Nazi murder of Jews, as if they were all equivalent. That contradicts decades of mainstream history that the Nazis had a special obsession with eliminating Jews specifically. (Which seems to be true; in Mein Kampf, Hitler didn’t mention gypsies much, and he never called for the destruction of gays. But he ranted about Jews, on and on and on.)If Obama had just mentioned the genocide of Jews alongside all these other groups, he would have been criticized by many Jews, both here and in Israel and in Europe, for trivializing the Jewish experience.Since I don’t like to spin paranoid conspiracy theories, I will not speculate as to why New Majority has taken this tack.

]]> http://www.frumforum.com/memory-in-full/comment-page-1#comment-48573 ltwpolitics Sat, 06 Jun 2009 01:46:46 +0000 #comment-48573 If Obama had said what Merkel did, DF would have interpreted it as an insult to Israel and the memory of the Holocaust, suggesting some kind of moral equivalency, etc... at least judging by DF's blogging of Obama's speech. If Obama had said what Merkel did, DF would have interpreted it as an insult to Israel and the memory of the Holocaust, suggesting some kind of moral equivalency, etc… at least judging by DF’s blogging of Obama’s speech.

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