Nothing says Judenhass like appropriating a singular historical monstrosity and using to grind your own grievances EDITOR’S NOTE: This blog previously contained quotation marks around the six million figure on Holocaust deaths. The author did not mean cast doubt over the figure, it was meant as a quotation. We apologise for any offence this caused. For the US and EU member states, January 27 is a time to reflect on
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January 27, 2015
HuffPo’s Sofia Eribo uses Holocaust Remembrance Day to engage in some anti-Semitism [Darleen Click]
May 23, 2014
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Reparations and a Reprise: Sins of the father [Darleen Click]
William Jacobson reads Ta-Nehisi Coates’ 15,000 word salad in The Atlantic, “The Case for Reparations” so you don’t have to. It’s looooong, which gives it a perceived weight which just is not there. In fact, there’s not much new there, except for historical anecdotes shedding detail but not light on what we already knew to be the history of slavery, segregation and discrimination […] And that’s ultimately the problem with