Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Nike’s ad seemingly dismissing the Holocaust is bad, no matter how you look at it

Never Again - Wikipedia   

  • Never again, a phrase associated with the Holocaust and other genocides

Never again - Wikipedia. . ."According to Aaron Dorfman, "Since the Holocaust, the Jewish community's attitude toward preventing genocide has been summed up in the moral philosophy of 'Never Again.'"[13] What this meant was that the Jews would not allow themselves to be victimized.[17] The phrase has been used in many official commemorations and appears on many Holocaust memorials and museums,[8][2] including memorials at Treblinka extermination camp[2] and Dachau concentration camp,[18] as well as in commemoration of the Rwandan genocide.[19]

"It is in wide use by Holocaust survivors, politicians, writers, and other commentators, who invoke it for a variety of purposes.[7][19] In 2012, Elie Wiesel wrote: "'Never again' becomes more than a slogan: It's a prayer, a promise, a vow ... never again the glorification of base, ugly, dark violence." The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum made the phrase, in its universal sense, the theme of its 2013 Days of Remembrance, urging people to look out for the "warning signs" of genocide." . . .


  Andrea Widburg  "Last Friday, Israel observed Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day, in honor of the 6 million slaughtered under Hitler. It is a very serious observance, including a minute of silence, when absolutely everything stops, including traffic. And last weekend, Nike observed the London marathon by putting up an utterly tone-deaf advertisement that seemed to dismiss the Holocaust’s horrors. Whether the ad arose from cultural and historical ignorance or from actual malevolence is unclear, although I lean to the first explanation. What we know is that the ad was awful.

"Here's the ad, which is best appreciated if you understand (as I’m sure you do) that “Never Again” is the Israeli and world Jewish response to the Holocaust: We will never again allow something like that to happen:" . . .

. . ."Leftists adore making Nazi analogies (and, indeed, the Palestinians, who are dedicated to Jewish eradication, are constantly recast as victims of “Jewish Hitlers”). However, they are actually surpassingly ignorant about the reality of the Holocaust. They just know it was bad, and that everyone they hate is Hitler. (And, if they’re extremists or Muslims, they claim it was a hoax so that Jews could steal “Palestine.”)"

Finally we see what a poor education system can - and has - fostered into American culture.

A cardinal symptom of TDS is the characterization of Trump as Adolf Hitler and a Nazi. The left, not noticeably given to introspection or critical thinking, obviously fails to recognize its own Nazism. 

"A fundamental tenet of Nazism is that all power be vested in the state.  Similarly, the Democrat party strives to establish a government that controls society via regulations and central planning — the Green New Deal, E.V. mandates, vaccination mandates, socialized medicine, wealth redistribution, community planning, public education, judicial activism, Obama’s “Life of Julia”, erosion of competing allegiance to family and faith — orchestrated by a permanent, unelected, unaccountable leftist bureaucracy.

Hitler sought a one-party state.  The Democrats openly advocate for statehood for D.C. and Puerto Rico, stacking the Supreme Court with leftist justices, lowering the voting age, and the importation of potential Democrat voters to establish a permanent Democrat majority.  They suppress conservative opposition via cancel culture, identity politics, DEI, and lawfare.

Hitler was anti-Semitic.  The left supports pro-Hamas, anti-Israel protests.

Hitler’s Nazism utilized a Ministry of Propaganda to brain-wash the populace in support of the regime.  The Democrats employ our MSM to the same end.

Hitler established the Hitler Youth Program to indoctrinate the young in the virtues of Nazism.  The left employs the same strategy in our education system.

Hitler utilized the military to grow his political influence. " . . . 

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