After finding what I came for at the Library today, I wanted to browse some French history, lit, culture type books. Library had just been remodeled so I asked the young man at reference to show me where to look. We go the area on the shelves for things French and I begin to pull out books that may be of interest. This guy; 20-something, short, heavy set, pasty white, reddish curly hair and beard, round spectacles, reaches for a book on the above shelf and says, I read this book last year and it was really good, do you like WW2? I recommend it. It was a book on Adolph fucking Eichmann. WTF? So, I said, Eichmann, the Nazi? I donât want to read about any damn Naziâs, we have enough of those idiots running around today. He was nice at my response, but scurried off quickly and left me to my browsing. WTF is it with young men today and their damn Naziâs?
This is another huge loss for the Living Memory of all humanity. She was a tireless, flesh-and-blood witness for those to whom the Shoah was only black-and-white photographs in ancient books. She never stopped, recording her final interview, shortly before her death, in a McDonaldâs at Auschwitz.
I suppose her most unexpected revelation was that THEREâS A MCDONALDâS AT AUSCHWITZ!!!
(Is there nothing that corporate America cannot monetize for consumer profit?)
Imagine this legislator showing up to Pride. âHey Iâm coming to liberate you just like Oskar Schindler did!â
In publishing the places where thereâs no logical connection so it all makes sense are called âholesâ in the story. Of which I notice with irritation there are several gaping ones here. I imagine Bishop used the term âexpressive creativityâ to refer to the expression of your First Amendment rights in opposing the bill, or trans people using the preferred bathroom or whatever. And I suppose also the lobbyist is a dope and thought the reference was just to people who work as âcreatives,â but I donât actually know either of those things.
ETA The HuffPo piece explains the exchange.
Hurt feelings of religious people. That need protection. In the bathrooms.
Designate the Southern POVERTY Law Center a hate group? Good luck with that. Bishop, a âgood christianâ, is destined for hell. WWJD with the evangelical taliban?
I read this yesterday, was so very moved it, but sharing obits can be unsettling at the very least so I was reluctant until, as happens too often, clueless pols talk so casually of the Holocaust.
Let me guess: A certain person in the White House. Some Bill OâReilly novels. Heâs a follower of Seb Gorka?
Looked a bit like Gorka now that you mention it.
My husbandâs cousin lives in Alabama. Sheâs the most ridiculously hateful, biased person Iâve ever met, all in Jesusâ name, of course. During Obamaâs first campaign, she e-mailed us a steady stream of the usual right-wing reality-lite racist silliness about him. My husband finally had to tell her to stop e-mailing us altogether. By the way, she has a PhD. So much for educationâs power to elevate and broaden a personâs thinking.
"âŚMcDonaldâs at Auschwitz⌠" Holy shit! Sounds like a sick joke. Money in genocide.
Conflating bigotry and discrimination with creativity, defending the victimized, and professionalism? Please let this man keep opening his mouth or releasing his actual statements.
Good Christ.
(If youâll pardon the expression.)
Could be both, @old_curmudgeon, could be both.
Not a one.
Channel 13 in NYC recently showed a documentary on her and her twin sistersâ lives. May she rest in peace.
Peeing on the leg of a hate-filled NC legislature to demonstrate disgust for his eagerness to discriminate against all âothersâ would be an act of expressive creativity.
our PBS just ran a show on her last month
Iâm not the â@writenowâ Iâm just âwritenow.â
If he doesnât address you that way, you do not get notification of his reply to you.