Misunderstanding the Holocaust

For John, BLUF:  The Holocaust killed 12 million people during World War Two.  The death of six million Jews has the Hebrew name of Shoah.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Whoopi Goldberg’s Ignorance About The Holocaust Is What Happens When Intersectionality Rots People’s Brains

Here is the sub-headline:

The Holocaust was not, as Goldberg put it, about ‘man’s inhumanity to man.’ It was about man’s genocide of Jews.

From The Federalist, by Ms Eve Barlow, 1 February 2022.

Here is the lede plus one:

It’s a chilling concern that corporate media repeatedly get matters of Jewish life and identity wrong.  What happened on “The View” Monday morning was a perfect capture of the absolute ignorance about the Holocaust of American non-Jews with captive audiences in major media.

In a panel segment, host Whoopi Goldberg began, “the Holocaust isn’t about race.”  She said it four times:  “It’s not about race.”  When asked to explain what it was about, Goldberg responded:  “It’s about man’s inhumanity to man.”

She continued, “These are two white groups of people.”  This is the version of the Holocaust that Goldberg and her cohorts agree children should be taught.  A butchered, ahistorical, Americanized, watered-down, downright incorrect version of the Holocaust, in which white people were being – I guess – unkind towards one another.

What Ms Goldberg seems to have not learned in school was about the story of eugenics and the fact that German Furher Adolf Hitler, looking to the United States, saw Jews as an inferior race, lesser than the German Aryans.  And then he acted on that theory, killing about six million Jews in various death camps.♠

We are looking at a failure of Ms Goldberg's teachers, duirng the 1960s, at St Columba's Catholic school and Washington Irving High School failed to teach her the history of our larger culture, much of which we inherited from Europe.  This is a major FAIL.  I sure hope we are doing better today, but I have my doubts.  Look at the antics by Harvard University Students after 7 October events in Israel lat year.  You could check the Pioneer Institue's book Restoring the City on a Hill:  U.S. History & Civics in America's Schools, by Mr Chris Sinacola, released in September of last year.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff

♠  And, he killed another six million people he saw as inferior (e.g., Romani) or otherwise bothersome