It was reported, just not well received by the media or politicians for various reasons, so they buried it, made it sound like it was all made up.
This is a point that ALL conservatives should make. I’m not saying your one,BTW.
The ‘education system’ (at least in the US) would be a joke if it were not so dang scary. I did have some wonderful teachers (and rather discerning parents) that pushed me to think for myself, but that concept seems to be discouraged these days. I taught my son how to solve logic problems, pushed him to read books by Marcus Aurelius, Upton Sinclair, and John Stienbeck. None of these books were assigned to him in High School. When I addressed this issue with his teachers, I was educated in ‘Outcome Based Education’, and his history teacher cautioned against not ‘going with the flow’ because my son was more interested in discussing ‘how and why’ rather than memorizing ‘when and where’ events took place.
It has already been stated in earlier posts that Walter Duranty via The New York Times helped to bury the story. Jones issued a rebuttal via The New York Times - so why didn’t this seem to revive what should have been outrage over such a tragedy? His expedition into Soviet Russia had been backed by powerful people - surely they could have used their considerable weight to support Jones. Why didn’t they? For that matter, why was the media of the day downplaying what was happening in Germany at the time? I will leave it to the individuals here to decide that for themselves, but the evidence is easily found, if you care to look for it.
I have been a conservative since high school, but unlike the progressive canards I DO
You don’t think the wealthy had any control over media outlets they owned? What do you think Rupert Murdock (not exactly what I would consider to be a ‘progressive liberal’) would say to that? I’m not suggesting there isn’t liberal media bias - far from it. I’m saying that wealthy, powerful people have known for a very long time that, to control the media is to wield real power in society. If we only watch one news channel or read one paper, we’re only getting one version of what the owners of those outlets want known. I find it truly frightening to know that many local newspapers (which used to be owned and staffed by local people) have been sold to corporations. My own city’s paper is owned by McClatchy - which purchased Knight Ridder in 2006. McClatchy currently owns at least 30 different papers. The ‘Free Press’ is an illusion.
Call me what you wish.
I would love to debate you on this, but to do it on this thread would not be germane to the
With respect, I believe it is germane to the subject at hand. The evidence for this is found in the title of the thread: “…worst tragedies of the last century of which the world is just beginning to learn”I would love to debate you on this, but to do it on this thread would not be germane to the
topic. PM me if you would like to start a new thread. God Bless.
Perhaps people don’t want to know the horrifying truth. But as I stated in a previous post,
Not all conservatives think alike, nor progressives, republicans, democrats, etc. ad nauseam. We’ve had plenty of conservatives in power for enough years to prove their ideas are the best. The result: deregulation of the banks, utilities, etc. Democrats haven’t exactly proved their argument, either. The opinion shapers are not necessarily progressive - they are powerful. Power seeks more power. As long as lawmakers are influenced by the wealthy, things will continue down the same path.
One can rightly accuse conservatives of many things, but not for this. The biggest deregulation was actually under Carter. I was in banking at the time. It turned the whole industry on its head, and one of the big reasons I got out of it. It looked like “occasional huge failures on steroids” to me, and so it has been.
Ethnic Germans were targeted in the Volga region during that period.
Yes, it appears the only real truth to be learned here is there is no limit to the willful inhumanity to man. Those in power seek more power, and the victors write the history books.
I read The Gulag Archipelago in college (on my own, not as part of any class) and it was a truly life-changing book. One will lose their innocence reading it, but gain great understanding of the human condition.
It strikes me as interesting – and a bit unnerving – to hear the old and tired trope that American education fails to discuss central historical topics because it’s weak and/or run by those who favor socialism/communism/totalitarianism (all three seem to be one in the same in some posts here). I don’t know any professors (or college administrators, for that matter) who don’t “want to report it or teach about it to this very day lest people realize just how vicious and totalitarian leftism has been historically, and how base are the motivations of so many of its leaders.”
At my institution, there are at least thirty faculty members who regularly teach about the Holocaust, the Holodomor, Armenia, Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda, and on and on (plus at least twenty more who engage with these topics every 1-3 years in rotation with other human rights abuses). Our efforts have been institutionalized and given primacy in the college’s strategic plans. And we’re not alone – I can think of at least thirty other post-secondary institutions in the U.S. which have a formal endowment and/or program for this kind of work, and *dozens *more that engage with these topics in various courses and co-curricular programming. I can’t say that we’re the majority, but if we exist, best not to paint with too broad a brush by claiming that those lefty educators won’t ever confront totalitarianism.