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From: "Mark Weiss" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 9:54 PM
Subject: Re: Who tells the story?
> The reasons are not hard to find. What shocked people about the final
> solution was that it was politically irrational--the victims were for the
> most part, among German Jews, gypsies, etc., innocent of any ant-German
> sentiment, among the Jews of occupied countries no more ant-german than
> anyone else (the Armenian genocide was at least as politically motivated
> as
> it was ethnically), and that it happened in one of "our" countries, not
> those strange backward almost subhuman asiatic despotisms, where "we"
> could
> have expected such things to happen. Russia and Turkey didn't betray the
> Enlightenment and our expectations of ourselves.
>
> Mark
>
The US seems to be currently betraying the Enlightenment.
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