Racist and other propaganda never seems to die. The recent revival of anti-Jewish propaganda by the republican party is worse than disgusting I find it hard to even muster a smidgen of respect for anyone who calls themselves a republican or supports the propaganda pouring out of Faux News.
That what they are doing is deliberate and not a "mistake" can be made clear by simply checking it our on Google. For example: Jewish resistance under Nazi rule
Jewish resistance under Nazi rule refers to various forms of resistance conducted against German occupation regimes in Europe by Jews during World War II. The term is particularly connected with the Holocaust and includes a multitude of different social responses by those oppressed, as well as both passive and armed resistance conducted by Jews themselves.
Due to the careful organization and military strength of Nazi Germany and its supporters, as well as the hostility of other sections of the civilian population, few Jews were able to effectively resist the killings militarily. Nevertheless, there are many cases of attempts at resistance in one form or another including over a hundred armed Jewish uprisings. Historiographically, the study of Jewish resistance to German rule is considered an important aspect of the study of the Holocaust.
The idea that Jews in that era were able to effectively arm themselves and organize is so far out of touch with the conditions that its suggestion can only be a deliberate abuse of history.
Read on below for more.
I hope that everyone now understands that the slaughter of Jews was the most extreme aspect of the abuse they suffered. Non Jews were divided about anti-Semitism then as are people now about about the various kinds of hate of fellow human beings because of race.
To ignore the conditions and glibly blame the victims is a hate crime of the worst kind. What actually happened has filled books and is readily available.
An example:
In his book The Holocaust: The Jewish Tragedy, Martin Gilbert describes the types of resistance:
"In every ghetto, in every deportation train, in every labor camp, even in the death camps, the will to resist was strong, and took many forms. Fighting with the few weapons that would be found, individual acts of defiance and protest, the courage of obtaining food and water under the threat of death, the superiority of refusing to allow the Germans their final wish to gloat over panic and despair.
Even passivity was a form of resistance. To die with dignity was a form of resistance. To resist the demoralizing, brutalizing force of evil, to refuse to be reduced to the level of animals, to live through the torment, to outlive the tormentors, these too were acts of resistance. Merely to give a witness of these events in testimony was, in the end, a contribution to victory. Simply to survive was a victory of the human spirit."
To defame this history and use that defamation as a justification for mass killings now is beyond anything a civilized society should tolerate. How did we allow it to become this bad? If anyone has lacked courage in the recent decades it was not the victims of hate but the "good people" who allowed the hate propaganda become an integral part of the sham discourse we excuse as "politics".
I'll be 80 in a few months and I have fought against this use of hate as an excuse for politics all my life. If Faux news and others want to criticise anyone it should be the spineless people who tolerate hate amongst them. You can start with the Holocaust and look at the people in all those countries who stood by and let it happen. Surely if you want someone to criticise for not doing anything these are the ones to go after.
Oh and here we are at "Columbus Day". I hear no praise from Faux News and the others for the way the Native People resisted our genocide.
We are in trouble when the media and the people who are asking for us to elect them are so deep into this level of hate and lies. We are in big trouble when they know that there are significant numbers of the voting public who welcome what they are doing.
UPDATE:
This seems to be harder than I thought for people to grasp so here's more:
Fox News’ sick grotesquerie: The insane right-wing Holocaust meme is so much worse than Ben Carson
While Carson is careful not to blame Jews directly for the Holocaust, these comments verge on being a form of Holocaust denialism, feeding, as they do, of anti-Semitic myths that Holocaust victims just passively allowed the Nazis to round them up and kill them. This myth is, unsurprisingly, false. As Jacob Bacharach of the New Republic and Valerie Strauss of the Washington Post explain, Jews did resist the Nazis, frequently and with vehemence. In reality, the Nazis loosened regulations on gun ownership, though maintaining a ban on gun ownership for Jewish Germans. But the actual armed uprisings that happened, such as the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, disprove the theory that armed citizen resistance can overcome the mighty power of the state. “In reality, only about 20 Germans were killed, while some 13,000 Jews were massacred,” Alex Seitz-Wald wrote in Salon in 2013. “The remaining 50,000 who survived were promptly sent off to concentration camps.”
But despite the ahistorical nature of these claims, Carson has his supporters on the right. Keith Ablow of Fox News has defended Carson’s argument and David French of the National Review wrote off Carson’s critics as deluded “outrage merchants.” This is the state of the American right, circa 2015, treading very closely to blaming the victims of the Holocaust for not being Rambo, as every conservative apparently believes he’d be under the circumstances.
But should we really be all that surprised? Victim-blaming is standard operating procedure for the right, after all. For every social inequality there is, you can bet there’s going to be a conservative argument for why the people holding the short end of the stick brought it on themselves.
4:31 PM PT: Please check out the link I added above. Thank you.