" Has there been a modern history of people blaming Poland for genocide? "
Good question, but not good enough for me to spend any time researching it. I can offer a weak analogy. Suppose you come from a family of trouble makers. Suppose you make it out of the rut and are not a trouble maker. Whenever someone says that the whole family is nothing but trouble makers, would you make an effort to set the record straight. Better yet, would you set the record straight if someone assumed your child was a troublemaker because she is related to that family. J - Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. - Henry Kissinger Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel. - John Quinton On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Judah McAuley <ju...@wiredotter.com> wrote: > > On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Jerry Barnes <critic...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > "Given that Obama appeared at Nazi concentration camps in Poland ands > poke > > out against the atrocities committed by Nazi's there in the past, I was > > kind of curious. > > > > Exactly. It's a nonissue being turned into an "issue". Kind of like > > transposing two letters when typing America. There are plenty of issues > > worth discussing. Neither of these should be in the category. > > Totally agree there. Also, content management systems are awesome > because it is hard to blame the developers for misspellings in the > content. > > > "That would explain the obviously outsized outrage." > > > > Maybe. Maybe not. According to the Yahoo article, Poland is very > > protective of its image in regards to the Holocaust. > > > > "Poland's government keenly watches the global media for descriptions of > > former Nazi German death camps as 'Polish' because it says the term -- > even > > if used simply as a geographical indicator -- can give the impression > that > > Poland bore responsibility for Nazi Germany's World War II genocide." > > Well, the person quoted in the outrage is part of Poland's government > so the above statement becomes tautologically true. Has there been a > modern history of people blaming Poland for genocide? It's possible, > there are a lot of lunatics out there, but I've certainly not heard > it. People talk about the Armenian Genocide and everyone seems quite > clear that the Armenians were the victims, not the perpetrators. > > Given the background of each party and their previous actions, > politically motivated outrage seems like the option that Occam's Razor > would pick. Occam's Razor can be wrong though, of course. > > Cheers, > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:351651 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
