On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Jerry Barnes <[email protected]> wrote: > > "Given that Obama appeared at Nazi concentration camps in Poland ands poke > out against the atrocities committed by Nazi's there in the past, I was > kind of curious. > > Exactly. It's a nonissue being turned into an "issue". Kind of like > transposing two letters when typing America. There are plenty of issues > worth discussing. Neither of these should be in the category.
Totally agree there. Also, content management systems are awesome because it is hard to blame the developers for misspellings in the content. > "That would explain the obviously outsized outrage." > > Maybe. Maybe not. According to the Yahoo article, Poland is very > protective of its image in regards to the Holocaust. > > "Poland's government keenly watches the global media for descriptions of > former Nazi German death camps as 'Polish' because it says the term -- even > if used simply as a geographical indicator -- can give the impression that > Poland bore responsibility for Nazi Germany's World War II genocide." Well, the person quoted in the outrage is part of Poland's government so the above statement becomes tautologically true. Has there been a modern history of people blaming Poland for genocide? It's possible, there are a lot of lunatics out there, but I've certainly not heard it. People talk about the Armenian Genocide and everyone seems quite clear that the Armenians were the victims, not the perpetrators. Given the background of each party and their previous actions, politically motivated outrage seems like the option that Occam's Razor would pick. Occam's Razor can be wrong though, of course. Cheers, ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:351649 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
