This includes all of the major institutions/players who have condemned @AOC incl. many close friends and colleagues. I’m not looking to call them out, just to highlight that we all contribute to a double-standard. Let’s look at some examples… 2/
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Here’s the
@SimonWiesenthal mission statement referring to hate, terrorism, human rights and dignity. 3/ http://www.wiesenthal.com/about/about-the-simon-wiesenthal-center/ …pic.twitter.com/EBzc4JPgkT
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@HolocaustMuseum Director Sara Bloomfield on the Holocaust as a cautionary tale, highlighting the vulnerabilities and fragility of societies. 4/ https://www.ushmm.org/information/press/press-releases/museum-director-sara-bloomfields-remarks-at-united-nations-holocaust-memori …pic.twitter.com/4MDsk0iFzM
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Here’s
@RabbiShmuley World Values Network (purveyors of a full page ad in@NYTimes) definitely not taking exception to comparing a Syrian crematorium to a Nazi one. 5/ https://worldvalues.us/for-the-love-of-g-d-bomb-the-syrian-crematorium-now/ …pic.twitter.com/Jsu0oaqMqb
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My intention is not to fuel partisan or Jew vs. Jew bickering on this issue, but to say that this highlights a fundamental challenge in our field… 6/
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Do we want people to learn ‘from’ the Shoah, or just ‘about’ it? (Reasonable people can disagree on this.) The language we use very often leans in the ‘from’ direction. We often (rightly) use it to appeal to wide audiences and assert our enduring relevance. 7/
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But in doing so, we also lose control over what conclusions people reach about what exactly those lessons are. Sometimes we read examples that are patently absurd and offensive. They are worthy of our outrage.
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But I would suggest that this is not one of those & that piling on
@AOC here is a bad look for our field. Maybe – given that it is us who opened the door to this in the first place – we might choose to pick our semantic battles more wisely? 9/Show this thread
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This is something which we (you might say "at last") are starting to discuss. This thread is a great contribution to that discussion.
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Concentration camps operated in and outside the context of the Holocaust. AOC’s analogy isn’t necessarily a Holocaust analogy.
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