tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post706931049296920424..comments2024-03-11T08:31:04.022-04:00Comments on Bieganski the Blog: Pruchnik and the Holocaust. Poles and Jews and Negative Images of Ethnic Others D Goskahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09353495585591945881noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-30784501679772440582019-04-24T02:03:56.330-04:002019-04-24T02:03:56.330-04:00I do have a small practical suggestion. Suppose &q...I do have a small practical suggestion. Suppose "peasant" were to be re-defined as "working class"? After all. who works harder really?<br /><br />Because while it is clearly Politically Correct to despise "peasants" - don't ask me why, one of the many nasty mysteries of politics - would it be PC to speak so contemptuously of "the working class" and openly despise them for being poor and hot having had much chance of a "higher" education? <br /><br />And yes, Maus is a disgrace, but an excellent example of the way the world works, in that a book supposedly devoted to showing the horrors of a Nazi system that "unters" certain groups, goes out of its way to "unter" a vulnerable group itself - and is lauded and applauded by "the world"...<br /><br />Its beyond satire.<br /><br />You cover the Maus debacle very nicely in Bieganski. (And I am using the word "nice" in its original sense of exactitude.)<br /><br />And I take the point you are making in the blog. But it all comes back, I think, to the question of Political Correctness, which, in my experience at its sharper end, tells us who must be treated with respect and who may safely be despised. Any group can be picked on in this way, once they are on the "unter" page, as there are no perfect people. We are all the damaged children of disobedient Adam - all caught in the same trap, and all in need of the loving rule of the Kingdom of God.Sue Knight's Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12597157298218651144noreply@blogger.com