{"id":79972,"date":"2021-11-09T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79972"},"modified":"2021-11-09T05:54:31","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T11:54:31","slug":"there-was-a-time-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79972","title":{"rendered":"There Was A Time…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

…when I would have looked at an event like today’s 83rd anniversary of Kristallnacht<\/em><\/a> <\/em>and nodded and thought “good thing our society is smarter than that these days”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because November 9 is the anniversary of the largest pogrom <\/em>in ihistory:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a statement to representatives of the foreign press,\u00a0Goebbels responded to the outrage<\/a>\u00a0at Germany\u2019 assault on its half-million Jewish citizens by challenging the Western democracies: \u201cIf there is any country that believes it has not enough Jews, I shall gladly turn over to it all our Jews.\u201d But not one country said they would take the Jews of Germany.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

After this last couple of years, I’m really not so sure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Antisemitism is back on the rise…:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s incredible how little has changed in eighty-three years. Children\u2019s textbooks are filled with anti-Jewish hatred in the Palestinian territories while others call Abbas and his underlings \u201cmoderates. \u201cIslamic Clerics throughout the world call for the death of Jews, and a recent AJC study reported that\u00a0Antisemitism runs rampant in France<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

And given our crippling tribalism, and the dehumanization of other ‘tribes” that runs rampant in tribalist societies (Rwanda, Bosnia, Burma and India for some modern examples), I’m not exactly sanguine about everyone else either. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…when I would have looked at an event like today’s 83rd anniversary of Kristallnacht and nodded and thought “good thing our society is smarter than that these days”. Because November 9 is the anniversary of the largest pogrom in ihistory: In a statement to representatives of the foreign press,\u00a0Goebbels responded to the outrage\u00a0at Germany\u2019 assault […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-and-its-making"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79974,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79972\/revisions\/79974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}