"Civilization is not self-supporting. It is artificial. If you are not prepared to concern yourself with the upholding of civilization -- you are done." (Ortega y Gasset)
"... the Muslim people living in the neighborhood voiced that creating such a memorial wouldn’t be acceptable.
On May 4th, National Memorial Day, the school had programs with many
lectures about the war as well as an announcement made that the plaque
would not be hung in fear that stones would be thrown through the
school’s windows."
How
to erase a people's history? Fear, intimidation, threats of violence, a
sense of entitlement, distortion, slander, re-writing history,
boycotting campaigns, etc etc.
OK. But what can possibly be the Dutch school's justification for bowing to these modern-day Vandals?
It is not as if this development is a singular occurrence or happening in a void. Consider this story. And here is the video:
To re-phrase Heinrich Heine's warning about book burning, those who
want to erase the memory of the Holocaust will one day erase (what is
left of) the Jewish people.
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