Be Afraid

Post by **Killfile** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 4:15 pm

My wife teaches a class (in the Fall) called "Nations and Nationalities" which is basically an investigation of where the idea of National Identity comes from and what consequences it has.

Part of that class centers upon the Holocaust - specifically the intellectual processes by which the Germans were manipulated to exterminate the Jews. So here I sit with a copy of "The Eternal Jew" (one of the most brilliant, manipulative, and disgusting pieces of propaganda ever created) piping through my video capture card so that my wife can distribute it to a class of 300 doe eyed freshmen who can't make an independent decision on what to wear in the morning, much less wrestle with the political indoctrination machine of Nazi Germany.

What could possibly go wrong?

Post by **psi29a** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 4:48 pm

Give a man fire...

Post by **Finito** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 5:59 pm

They could start burning every book they dont like.

Post by **Ruuppa** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 6:58 pm

It's good that it takes a broad view, but the choice of book could have been a bit less extreme.

But if those "doe eyed freshmen" can't handle extremes, they're better off ignorant, RITE?!?!