4.14.2004
Food for Thought
What is genocide? Would you define it simply or use an esoteric formula to map the conditions that for you define the word? "An American Holocaust? The Structure of Denial" by Ward Churchill has been swimming around in my head for a bit now and I think you should give it a read, so I offer you the link here. From the text:
I'd like to build on Santayana a bit. If "those who forget history are doomed to repeat it," as he observed, then what are we to say of those who are prevented from learning it in the first place? Worse still, how about those force-fed a false history? Being denied the ability to recognize genocides past translates into an inability to recognize genocides present. Inability to recognize the phenomenon for what it is precludes the ability to combat it effectively, and that, in turn, paves the way for future perpetration.
Churchill offers an insightful bit of history here.
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