tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post8455150574760383414..comments2024-03-29T05:29:08.934-05:00Comments on Every goddamn day: 03/29/24: True greatness comes from facing historyNeil Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-14558545318198653732021-02-08T19:42:36.421-06:002021-02-08T19:42:36.421-06:00you know the great thing about the United States? ...you know the great thing about the United States? we can talk of the horrible treatment received by so many here and around the world by our actions and those of our government without being afraid. <br /><br />we can continue to attack and oppress others with impunity because we are wealthy, white, men and others who having escaped their own oppression have opted into the capitalist, imperialist power structure that allows us to live at such a high standard of living at the expense of others <br /><br />there is nothing great about the centuries of slavery and oppression . nothing<br /><br />I am deeply sorry for the suffering of your people and the death of those in your family. <br />im sure my polish relatives played a part in this atrocity and the Italians. catholics up to pope pious ignored and collaborated in their demise as did the American government. <br /><br />the persecution and murder of jews in the holocaust is another thing there is absolutely nothing great about, nothingFMEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06829632906445535928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-21277851362900378882021-02-08T18:15:29.594-06:002021-02-08T18:15:29.594-06:00Sorry typing issues here. The doc is Einsatzgruppe...Sorry typing issues here. The doc is Einsatzgruppen available on Netflix. Lots about nazis and Eastern Europe mass murder.J. Pabsthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11566801024154623288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-81749306141633064842021-02-08T17:25:53.686-06:002021-02-08T17:25:53.686-06:00This doc horrifyingly answers that.This doc horrifyingly answers that.J. Pabsthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11566801024154623288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-37725414695497595152021-02-08T12:39:07.753-06:002021-02-08T12:39:07.753-06:00Thanks. I hired a Yiddish poet to do it. My grandf...Thanks. I hired a Yiddish poet to do it. My grandfather never spoke of them, and we didn't ask.Neil Steinberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-16950860320341634492021-02-08T12:36:15.069-06:002021-02-08T12:36:15.069-06:00There have long been rumors that Pius XI was murde...There have long been rumors that Pius XI was murdered by his successor, because he was going to denounce the Nazis for their persecution & murdering of Jews.<br />Pius XII of course did nothing to denounce the Nazis & during his reign as pope, many Nazis were helped in escaping Germany to South America by Catholic priests!<br />Rolf Hochuth wrote the play "The Deputy" denouncing Pius XII's indifference to Europe's Jews.Clark St.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09634234069783123180noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-71950665299984725742021-02-08T12:24:51.071-06:002021-02-08T12:24:51.071-06:00A powerful column today, with the personal aspect ...A powerful column today, with the personal aspect making it even more so.<br /><br />I know that you've written before about these letters, Neil, since I recalled that your grandfather's family lived in Bialystok, which sounded familiar to me because of "The Producers." <br /><br />I'm just curious as to whether your grandfather translated them for his family in America, or was that done later by somebody else? Jakashnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-5687617628112573032021-02-08T10:27:36.973-06:002021-02-08T10:27:36.973-06:00Polish anti-Semitism evidently has a long history,...Polish anti-Semitism evidently has a long history, perhaps less rooted in national identity than in the influence of the Church. David Kertzer's "The Pope and Mussolini" relates that Pius XI was schooled in hatred of Jews when he served as a young priest in Poland, and his changing attitudes during the late 1930's were frustrated by the Polish head of the Jesuit order, an anti-Semite who wielded great influence in the Vatican.<br /><br />"We are not always hurt by our hard past. We are strengthened." Pretty to think so, but perhaps not invariably true. One thinks of the current vaccine avoidance of Black people due to unethical past incidents like the Tuskegee studies.<br /><br />Tom<br /><br /> Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09641357239788323783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-28835650405433078022021-02-08T10:09:16.153-06:002021-02-08T10:09:16.153-06:00Just think how many people claim Gone with the Win...Just think how many people claim Gone with the Wind as their favorite movie.<br /><br />john<br />tatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10088632798195131329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-80418554806756274002021-02-08T09:46:11.616-06:002021-02-08T09:46:11.616-06:00Only in Poland were there actual pogroms against J...Only in Poland were there actual pogroms against Jews after the war. <br />You'd think with millions of Poles dead from the war, they would've been preoccupied with rebuilding the country, but no.<br />Killing Jews was more important.<br />That was a lesson they learned from the Nazis, who were more concerned about & prioritized using the trains to send Jews to death camps, instead of sending supplies to their own troops fighting the Red Army that was grinding them into shit. <br />Absolute madness & I guarantee you, the Polish Catholic Church was 100% behind it! Clark St.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09634234069783123180noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-77960413650202560522021-02-08T09:38:31.769-06:002021-02-08T09:38:31.769-06:00A very moving & informative column.A very moving & informative column.privatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18413982311699012802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-39820347725502653192021-02-08T08:47:37.186-06:002021-02-08T08:47:37.186-06:00Well, some of us can open and honestly talk about ...Well, <i>some</i> of us can open and honestly talk about slavery. Others hysterically accuse anyone who brings it up of being divisive and hating America. Look at the reaction to the 1619 Project.<br /><br />As for the Poles, acknowledging their anti-Semitism would move the Poles slightly off their "poor us, we're such tragic victims" approach to World War II and to history in general. Good. If the Germans can take responsibility for perpetrating the Holocaust, the Poles can damn well take some for going along with it to the extent they did.Bitter Scribehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04645909858616987997noreply@blogger.com