Discussion about this post

User's avatar
Bill Heath's avatar

I very much wish you were wrong. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion was as pernicious as possible. It pandered to the worst traits of humanity, and boosted the existing anti-Jewish sentiments of its readers. In 1972 my mother and sister visited me and my wife in Berlin. We borrowed a camper van from an acquaintance and went around Europe. We got to Munich and took them to Dachau.

My mother was born in North Dakota, where her German-rooted family had lived for several decades. She believed all the lies spread about the Jews as a teenager, and even after WW II, when the truth was revealed, it wasn't advertised the way views on social media are today. She recalled believing an editorial she had read, "Maybe Hitler is right about the Jews."

She immediately vomited as she entered Dachau. It shook her to her core that she had, as a girl, believed any of that claptrap. She never recovered from the feeling.

Expand full comment
scott m's avatar

HATRED, n. : eternally firing the boilers of humankind, this powerful dynamic is surpassed only by the foolhardiness of those who think it can be overcome

— DDR

Expand full comment
27 more comments...

No posts