In Reply to: Congratulations! Only... posted by clarkjohnsen on November 25, 2004 at 17:44:48:
Hey Clark!
Thanks for your encouragement!All I can say is that they did what they thought would work for them...and we documented what they did. You have to remember: these people are educators, not ideologues. They are not under an ideologue's imperative to find the proper atrocity that makes them able to grind a personal political axe. Your question makes me laugh, really. It's as if you're saying "my genocide is better than your genocide." KnowwhutImean?
Anyway, if they spent time trying to be sure they'd found the "perfect" genocide to study then they probably would still be deciding. And do you really think they don't talk about these other atrocities in their work? Your implied assumption that they only consider the Jewish holocaust suggest a narrow way of thinking (ie leaps to unquestioned assumptions).
I hadn't thought about this before, but there's really another reason why the Holocaust can be studied with uncommon fruitfulness: it was particularly well documented, from both sides. The the presence of so much important prior work and so many sources provides lots of study material.
Elliot
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Follow Ups
- Re: Congratulations! Only... - EBerlin 19:14:17 11/25/04 (8)
- "Your question makes me laugh." Glad to brighten your day. - clarkjohnsen 06:35:35 11/27/04 (3)
- Context is everything. - EBerlin 11:18:07 11/27/04 (0)
- Contradicting yourself, clark - Victor Khomenko 08:23:09 11/27/04 (1)
- No I'm not. But can't say I disagree otherwise, except about the uniqueness. nt - clarkjohnsen 08:30:39 11/27/04 (0)
- Good luck, though your work seems to be doing well already! - tinear 08:29:53 11/26/04 (3)
- The irony is... - EBerlin 09:26:36 11/26/04 (2)
- Well, now I'm really curious....unfortunately, I live in a tiny - tinear 12:39:07 11/26/04 (1)
- Re: Well, now I'm really curious....unfortunately, I live in a tiny - EBerlin 20:23:01 11/26/04 (0)