[lbo-talk] Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Dies at 89 (NY Times)

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Wed Aug 6 01:46:03 PDT 2008


I don't believe these "friends in Poland" fighting the Nazis exist! It makes no sense -- for they are Slavs, a primitive backward people with no culture who not only were not killed in Auschwitz, but actually welcomed its construction! Does not compute!

In case you haven't noticed, my comments are not actually aimed at you, but at the list's resident unapologetic bigot, and I apologize if you thought they were aimed at you. Unlike some people, I do not judge others based on their ethnic background and/or country of origin or residence, using anectodes as evidence to justify my hatred. In point of fact, I am German. Well, second-generation German immigrant.

Now that I think of it, anecdotes are really the favorite form of evidence for bigots. "I mother was ripped off by a Jew once." "I see lazy Mexicans all over the place; they never do any work." "A Ukrainian once called me a Yid." "Every time you see a robbery on TV, it's always a black person!"

--- On Wed, 8/6/08, moominek at aol.com <moominek at aol.com> wrote:
>
> Friends in Poland - the older ones fighting german
> occupation in the leftist underground - share my view and
> never ever were looking down on "A German". We
> worked together. Krystyna was acitve in socialist
> underground and stayed in the Pawiak - the warsaw
> gestapo-Prison - nearly a year, before taken to Ravensbrück
> in Sommer 44.
>
> Friends from the former soviet union share the view too,
> and the older german comrades with 5 to 8 years
> imprinsonment in different concentration camps.
>
> But of course none them has your moral authority, Chris.
>
> Part of my time I spend guiding eastern european groups
> trough the exhibition on the place of former gestapo and SS
> headquater in Berlin.
> (http://www.topographie.de/en/index.htm)
>
> I did n
> ot write anywhere about "babarian Easterners".
> And there is non "implicit difference" between in
> my post "eastern" and "western"
> antisemitism. I use "eastern antisemitism" only
> this way: in quotation marks, because I see
> "eastern" and "western" antisemistism as
> empty  generelizations. I wrote about facts. (You know:
> These ugly things you are not interested in.)
>
> But there is an explicit difference in my post:
>
> > It was in late 1941, before the massacre of the
> "Aktion
> > Reinhard" began. Many of the far right in Poland
> did
> > not appreciate the killing of the jews, some even
> opposed.
> >Yes, in no other country there was such harsh
> legislation
> > against all those, hiding and helping jews, like in
> occupied
> > Poland.
> ---
> To take it to a short summary: Stop making big words about
> things You have no idea about.
>
> Sebastian
>
>
>
>
>
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