{"id":3733,"date":"2011-01-27T11:37:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T11:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2011\/01\/400-rabbis-demand-censorship-in-the-name-of-holocaust-remembrance.html"},"modified":"2011-01-27T11:37:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-27T11:37:00","slug":"400-rabbis-demand-censorship-in-the-name-of-holocaust-remembrance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2011\/01\/400-rabbis-demand-censorship-in-the-name-of-holocaust-remembrance.html","title":{"rendered":"400 Rabbis demand censorship in the name of Holocaust Remembrance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

I\u2019m no Glenn Beck fan.\u00a0\u00a0 Like most people who have a perpetual microphone in our cable news universe, he doesn\u2019t let a little thing like solid scholarship or sound reasoning get in the way of his agendas.\u00a0 Though when I watch scholars interviewed for outlets like the History Channel<\/strong>, I can\u2019t say there\u2019s much room to pick at Beck, or Olbermann, or others who make a mockery of historical research.\u00a0 Still, it\u2019s bothersome that a generation of such self-proclaimed enlightened intellectually sophisticated consumers care so little about what\u2019s actually true when it comes to advancing agendas.<\/p>\n

With that said, my stomach almost fell out my butt when I read this story<\/a>, that 400 rabbis are doing nothing less than demanding censorship of Glenn Beck.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Because he keeps invoking the Holocaust in ways they don\u2019t like, and attacks George Soros, who happens to be a Holocaust survivor.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Now quick, what\u2019s wrong with this picture?\u00a0 Well, first, so what if he uses the Holocaust?\u00a0 How are we supposed to remember it and learn from it if we don\u2019t use it an apply it?\u00a0 And where were they for all those years that Republicans and Conservatives have been called Nazis, that everything America ever did was compared to the Holocaust, that our treatment of minorities has been repeatedly compared to the Nazi treatment of Jews, and every time someone over the decades has advanced a liberal agenda by comparing their opponents to Nazis?\u00a0 Or when some rabbis actually insisted that the traditional Christian Gospel was inherently anti-Semitic?\u00a0 I know a few exceptionally egregious times some rabbis spoke out.\u00a0 But I can\u2019t remember any calling for censorship.<\/p>\n

Second thing that bothers me is the idea that since Soros is a Holocaust survivor, he is somehow immune.\u00a0 I could\u00a0care less if he is a Holocaust survivor.\u00a0 A man who spends billions on advertisements doing the very thing that the rabbis are suddenly concerned about deserves the criticism he gets.\u00a0 If a holocaust survivor axe murders children, is he immune?\u00a0 Come on.\u00a0 That\u2019s about as cheap and cowardly as you get.<\/p>\n

Third, I\u2019m growing tired of being told that \u201cHitler and the Nazis were evil and killed 6 million Jews\u201d as if that is all that can be said, studied, or read about.\u00a0 Any and every other grotesque inhumanity of history is debated, denied, argued about, and discussed \u2013 providing they haven\u2019t just been forgotten about.\u00a0 While there was something particularly sinister about the Nazis using everything that science, technology, industry, and the latest political and scientific theories about humanity to such horrible ends, it wasn\u2019t the only horrible thing of the last century. Or any century for that matter.\u00a0 Learning from the Holocaust means learning from, and doing so to avoid future holocausts, not simply bemoaning the past for the sake of bemoaning the past.\u00a0 Certainly not for the sake of advancing political or social agendas.<\/p>\n

Fourth, sorry, but growing tired of Jews in the name of the Holocaust turning to good old fashioned intimidation, bigotry, censorship, and a host of other things that were the stuff of what led to the holocaust.\u00a0 When Mel Gibson produced his film The Passion<\/em>, I was gobsmacked at how many Jewish commentators called for it to be banned.\u00a0 Banned?\u00a0 Would we like to have some book burnings, too?\u00a0 Again, remembering the Holocaust means learning from it to prevent it from happening again \u2013 to anyone.\u00a0 Not just Jews.\u00a0 And certainly not happening to anyone because of Jews willing to exploit the holocaust for their own agendas.<\/p>\n

So shame on these rabbis.\u00a0 They can complain about Beck all they want.\u00a0 That is their right. But censorship?\u00a0 Come on.\u00a0 That suggests despite a lifetime of obsessing over the Holocaust, these rabbis have apparenlty learned nothing from it.\u00a0 And that would be a shame on this Holocaust Remembrance Day.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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