tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post5081579591864005792..comments2024-03-11T08:31:04.022-04:00Comments on Bieganski the Blog: Robert E. Lee does not equal Hitler. Slavery does not equal the Holocaust. A plantation does not equal Auschwitz. Our hearts and minds can respect both slavery and the Holocaust without entering into a distasteful Suffering Olympics.D Goskahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09353495585591945881noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-30824102430600754072020-07-10T09:25:22.629-04:002020-07-10T09:25:22.629-04:00Thanks for an informative and thought-provoking po...Thanks for an informative and thought-provoking post. As you correctly note, the experiences of African-American slaves and European Jews in World War II are not comparable and “both sides should learn to respect what happened to the other.”<br /><br />However, this brings up the related point of the unique victim identity so vigorously promoted in Holocaust literature. As you point out in your work “Bieganski”, the purveyors of such literature work hard to preserve their self-acclaimed exclusivity not only by parroting this narrative but also by purposely downplaying and ignoring the deaths of other European noncombatants who were also victims of Hitler’s racist mass murder policies. Historian Timothy Snyder writes that the Germans deliberately killed about 11 million noncombatants, of which about 5.4 million were Jews. This is a difference without a distinction and this fact needs to be similarly acknowledged and respected.<br /><br />Gene Sokolowskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04130330292941063090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-53205267051196374312020-07-10T03:34:14.501-04:002020-07-10T03:34:14.501-04:00People generally have trouble in differentianting ...People generally have trouble in differentianting and seeing degrees. Degrees of suffering, degrees of guilt. Too many people think in binary. Piotr Sitareknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-69286956270982422182020-07-09T19:28:19.120-04:002020-07-09T19:28:19.120-04:00Great essay, as always. Just some minor remarks:
...Great essay, as always. Just some minor remarks:<br /><br />@There were too many Polish non-Jews for the Nazis to commit an equal genocide against them. While the WW2 lasted, yes. After that, the Germans planned to wipe out the Polish nation (Generalplan Ost). The Germans are very thorough and, if told by their superiors, can act mostly without much pangs of guilt so I think they would have succeded.<br /><br />@ Both sides should learn to respect what happened to the other.<br /><br />Yes. Especially the Jewish side. This is the personal experience I have had until now.<br /><br />@"Your races pain doesn't hurt more than the next races pain. <br /><br />This part actually has a point. Pain is pain,and should be acknowledged as such.<br /><br />@Robert E. Lee does not equal Hitler.<br /><br />Was Lee a slaveholder? Yes. Was he a Christian? Also yes. Would Lee have collaborated with Hitler? I can not imagine that, from all I know about Lee.Wasnt't the South more eager to fight the nazis than the northern states?Hannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06677621128917750232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-46129637514190552582020-07-09T19:23:52.775-04:002020-07-09T19:23:52.775-04:00The fact that General Lee can be equated with Hitl...The fact that General Lee can be equated with Hitler just goes on to show the pervasiveness of left-wing indoctrination in our universities and increasingly in our K-12 schools.<br /><br />Mr. Jan Peczkishttps://www.jewsandpolesdatabase.org/noreply@blogger.com