This is a fantastic article, truly on the mark. In most universities that I have experienced, Holocaust studies amounts to kind of leftist legitimized death pornography. Oh how sad! Oh how bad! Oh how exciting! But the unique focus on Jewish people, the politics and history of actual anti-Semitism throughout history gets short shrift. It…
This is a fantastic article, truly on the mark. In most universities that I have experienced, Holocaust studies amounts to kind of leftist legitimized death pornography. Oh how sad! Oh how bad! Oh how exciting! But the unique focus on Jewish people, the politics and history of actual anti-Semitism throughout history gets short shrift. It is so easily reduced to an analog of how horrible people can be. Unless it focuses on the unique hatred and murder of Jewish people, explicitly for their Judaism, it is cynical rubbish.
This is a fantastic article, truly on the mark. In most universities that I have experienced, Holocaust studies amounts to kind of leftist legitimized death pornography. Oh how sad! Oh how bad! Oh how exciting! But the unique focus on Jewish people, the politics and history of actual anti-Semitism throughout history gets short shrift. It is so easily reduced to an analog of how horrible people can be. Unless it focuses on the unique hatred and murder of Jewish people, explicitly for their Judaism, it is cynical rubbish.