{"id":3052,"date":"2011-10-31T11:58:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T11:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2011\/10\/more-historical-dumbness-courtesy-of-our-enlightened-age.html"},"modified":"2011-10-31T11:58:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-31T11:58:00","slug":"more-historical-dumbness-courtesy-of-our-enlightened-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2011\/10\/more-historical-dumbness-courtesy-of-our-enlightened-age.html","title":{"rendered":"More historical dumbness courtesy of our enlightened age"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

So my eyes catch a story, again on ABC News, about a Halloween Costume that has sparked outrage<\/a>.\u00a0 It is an evacuee\u2019s costume being sold in Britain.\u00a0 There wasn\u2019t a picture, but apparently it was supposed to bring back images of the British children who were famously evacuated from their homes during the Blitz.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

But read the story.\u00a0 Read this part:<\/p>\n

\u201cAll that\u2019s missing is a yellow star,\u201d Julia Rubin of the Styleite wrote.\u00a0
Any costume that\u2019s even remotely related to the Holocaust sets off a nerve, but the Huffington Post reports\u00a0that the costume is intended as a way to teach kids British history and is not specifically for Halloween. Evacuee Day is commemorated in primary schools and museums across England, marking the evacuation of millions of schoolchildren from Britain\u2019s cities to escape German bombing attacks during WWII.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You get that?\u00a0 It\u2019s a British costume about British kids doing something courageous in British history.\u00a0 And the first thing you read?\u00a0 BAM!\u00a0 You can\u2019t mock the Holocaust!!<\/p>\n

What the hell does it have to do with the Holocaust?\u00a0 I know, I know.\u00a0\u00a0 The Nazis were evil and killed six million Jews in the Holocaust.\u00a0 And America nuked Japan and rounded up Japanese citizens.\u00a0 And thanks to Saving Private Ryan<\/em>, we know that Americans did brave things on D-Day before going on killing sprees and gunning down defenseless Germans.\u00a0 And that\u2019s about it.\u00a0 Anything else in the 20th century?\u00a0 Any real studies of the other tens of millions of humans who were butchered for any one of a thousand reasons?\u00a0\u00a0 Nope.\u00a0 Just that.\u00a0 You know it\u2019s bad when the Huffington Post has to stand up and attempt to bring some perspective. <\/p>\n

So when our brilliant and educated elites see something like this, they obviously assume it must have something to do with the only subjects they\u2019ve bothered to study or care about.\u00a0 Again, despite all assurance to the contrary, I\u2019m not 100% convinced that the Internet Age has made us smarter.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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