Comments on: Swedes: Who cares about old, dead Jews when Gazans died last month? http://www.yourish.com/2009/01/27/6188 Cutting straight to the point Mon, 13 Feb 2012 02:14:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: David Foster http://www.yourish.com/2009/01/27/6188/comment-page-1#comment-35892 David Foster Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:44:10 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=6188#comment-35892 Left out the link: my post on the film and the review is <a href="http://photoncourier.blogspot.com/2009_01_01_photoncourier_archive.html#4192061012441227692" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Left out the link: my post on the film and the review is here.

]]> By: David Foster http://www.yourish.com/2009/01/27/6188/comment-page-1#comment-35891 David Foster Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:43:24 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=6188#comment-35891 Here's something I think is kind of similar: a CNN reviewer, writing about the movie "Defiance," thought it was inappropriate that this film came out while the fighting in Gaza was going on. As I said in my post on this: "...the past heroism of Jews fighting their would-be murderers must only be portrayed and celebrated when Jews are not currently fighting other would be murderers?" No one should kid themselves that this kind of thinking is limited to Europe, although it seems definitely more virulent there. Here’s something I think is kind of similar: a CNN reviewer, writing about the movie “Defiance,” thought it was inappropriate that this film came out while the fighting in Gaza was going on. As I said in my post on this:

“…the past heroism of Jews fighting their would-be murderers must only be portrayed and celebrated when Jews are not currently fighting other would be murderers?”

No one should kid themselves that this kind of thinking is limited to Europe, although it seems definitely more virulent there.

]]> By: The_Editrix http://www.yourish.com/2009/01/27/6188/comment-page-1#comment-35889 The_Editrix Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:56:48 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=6188#comment-35889 "I’m sorry, could you please explain that logic to me again? It would feel wrong to remember the victims of the Nazi genocide because Palestinians died in Gaza last month? Do you mean that it would feel wrong to remember people who were killed because they were Jewish because people who were Jewish killed Gazans?" I will give it a try. This is the typical German way of thinking, which has been more or less adapted by the rest of Europe as well. It has to do with the psychological mechanism of self-exculpation that lets every single misdeed by Jews, real or perceived, and by Israel, the über-Jew, somehow magically lessen the German/European guilt of the Holocaust. Therefore every single misdeed by Jews, real or perceived, has to be duly noticed, given its due "importance", and charged up against the Holocaust. It seems that what Israel, the über-Jew, did in Gaza has finally nullified the Holocaust in the mind of the Nordins of this world. I don't think that it will remain an isolated case. “I’m sorry, could you please explain that logic to me again? It would feel wrong to remember the victims of the Nazi genocide because Palestinians died in Gaza last month? Do you mean that it would feel wrong to remember people who were killed because they were Jewish because people who were Jewish killed Gazans?”

I will give it a try. This is the typical German way of thinking, which has been more or less adapted by the rest of Europe as well. It has to do with the psychological mechanism of self-exculpation that lets every single misdeed by Jews, real or perceived, and by Israel, the über-Jew, somehow magically lessen the German/European guilt of the Holocaust. Therefore every single misdeed by Jews, real or perceived, has to be duly noticed, given its due “importance”, and charged up against the Holocaust.

It seems that what Israel, the über-Jew, did in Gaza has finally nullified the Holocaust in the mind of the Nordins of this world. I don’t think that it will remain an isolated case.

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