Do you remember...?
Do you remember just after the election when the British Media called 51% of Americans "dumb" for reelecting GWB? Well..., by their yardstick, we ain't the only dummies on the planet. Via Chrenkoff, (he has a great post on this btw), is the news that 45% of Britons are unaware of the significance of Auschwitz or what happened there. That is astonishing to me!
We're the dummies? HA! For God's sake it happened in their backyard! They lead the fight against Hitler and his 'Solution'. They are always laying claims at America's door that we have no sense of history and are lacking in culture. And yet, they themselves appear to be (according to the BBC) completely unaware of one of the biggest real-life symbols of evil on Earth. Now that is dumb.
But, not to be outdone in the dumb department, it turns out the Germans are equally idiotic. It seems in a recent poll,
"51 percent of respondents said that there is not much of a difference betweenNevermind the fact that the two situations are nothing alike! I mean, Come On, People!
what Israel is doing to the Palestinians today and what the Nazis did to the
Jews during the Holocaust, compared to 49% who disagreed with such a
comparison,
according to the poll carried out by Germany's University of
Bielefeld."
