"Lies, Damned Lies and History" Topic
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Tango01  | 14 Feb 2023 8:49 p.m. PST |
"Post-truth politics, and the way it is reshaping the public sphere, poses an existential threat to the study of the past. On 27 January 2020 we mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. The existence of the Nazi concentration and extermination camps and, specifically, the campaign to use them to eliminate the Jewish people, is one of the best attested events in history. But five months before the anniversary, director Ken Loach was asked on tape: ‘There was a discussion about the Holocaust – did it happen or didn't it?' and he replied, ‘I think history is there for us all to discuss.' History is a discursive subject, but in the context of the question posed about Holocaust denial, Loach's response was, at best, an equivocation, implying that the fact of the Holocaust was up for debate. A few days afterwards Loach wrote a letter to the Guardian to ‘clarify' that his ‘words have been twisted' and ‘the Holocaust is as real a historical event as World War II itself and not to be challenged'…"
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| bobm1959 | 15 Feb 2023 5:03 a.m. PST |
Lipscomb is one of the better TV historians…and Loach an excellent film maker. |
| Tango01 | 15 Feb 2023 3:19 p.m. PST |
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