Thread: Kaufman links e-book trend to bookburning, Nazis
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Old 12-02-2009, 03:05 PM   #213
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Person A: Ancestor was subject to treatments during Holocaust. Person A was born in a time after with no first hand experience.

Person B: Born at same time as Person A yet has no ancestral connection with people subject to treatment during Holocaust.

It is quite acceptable for Person A to make statements in relation to said events (or a relational statement), yet Person B is criticised because he has no connection. Both Person A and B are making statements based upon 3rd hand information, yet it is ok for one, but not the other. Now before people jump up and down I am not Jewish but I have close family (biologically) who were subject to treatments during Nazi Germany's expansion in the 1940's. Does that make it ok for me to make statements about life in concentration camps? According to societal acceptance...YES, but ethically and morally I have no place to make statements with the exception of revealing factual and researched information.
That's because you live in a civilization that's gone totally mad with PC. Nobody likes to take personal responsibility, but everbody loves to take credit for what other people have gone through. I live in a country gone mad in totally different (and more serious) ways, but thankfully PC is not one of them.
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