Admitting the existence of ‘victims’ of gun massacres would require any self-respecting politician to do something about itRepublican presidential hopeful Ben Carson’s latest objectionable historical observation – and extinct-fashioned victim blaming – is that the Holocaust would have been “diminished” whether the Jews had carried guns. Carson’s comment not only betrays his ignorance of twentieth century European history – the Jews in Europe did engage allotment in armed resistances, even in the Nazi’s worst death camps –but it also reveals a troubling tendency in current American social dialogue to deny the existence and reality of true victims” throughout history. Related: Ben Carson claims Jewish people might have stopped Holocaust whether they had guns Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com