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Nice Planet 5: Insert Catchy Title Here

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DrDemento said:
Holocaust items? Try searching for actions figures of the German High Command-companies that manufacture action figres (like 3R, DID, Dragon, etc) have made these for years and some are highly prized as collectibles. But you cannot list them on eBay unless they are done with a sort of hidden innuendo listing-no Hitler/Himmler/Goring/Goebbels in the title or description-they are usually listed(if at all) as German WWII figure-or German Soldier. Why must the past be denied? it exited, we have books and film to document it-but we cannot use the names? Confusing for me.
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The old air brush. A technique perfected by the Soviets. Succeeding issues of the official soviet encyclopedia would feature group photos which year after year had fewer and fewer people in them. Finally, all that was left was Stalin. The argument that EBay is "profiting by the Holocaust" seems a little extreme to me. As you say, replica and genuine artifacts from that period are available just about everywhere. It just seems like a cheap shot to me for EBay to be criticized in this way. On the other hand, this discussion reminded me of one of the all time funny Monty Python sketches:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlmGknvr_Pg
 
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I think both sides of any arrgument can defend just about anything-unless it is pure hypocrisy. Even then a good barrister can work from either side, as it should be. But remembering the Holocaust, remembering the events of WWII-and at the same time censoring or ignoring some of it smacks of the worst kind of it. History is history and you should not get to pick and choose what parts you want to erase.
 
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bigblue_dl said:
Amen. And we can learn just as much, if not more from the parts that we'd rather just forget.
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One of the most frequently challenged books in school libraries and curricula remains The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Some people just can't get past the references to "N-word Jim," never mind that he's the hero of piece and the fact that use of that word accurately reflected the way people spoke in those days. I recall reading about a black professor (of literature, IIRC) at Harvard who made it her business to show up at school board meetings when the "air brushers" were ignorantly trying to ban the book.
 
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Old Pio said:
One of the most frequently challenged books in school libraries and curricula remains The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Some people just can't get past the references to "N-word Jim," never mind that he's the hero of piece and the fact that use of that word accurately reflected the way people spoke in those days. I recall reading about a black professor (of literature, IIRC) at Harvard who made it her business to show up at school board meetings when the "air brushers" were ignorantly trying to ban the book.
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Sanitizing the low parts of our history is the best way to go about eventually repeating these mistakes and atrocities. Why is it so difficult for people to see this?
 
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Toronto Mayor Rob Ford finally fesses up and admits that he's smoked crack, but he refuses to resign.

Ford’s stunning admission comes after months of denying he’s on video smoking what appears to be crack and after last week’s revelation from Toronto Police that they have found the notorious video.

As he arrived at City Hall on Tuesday, Ford turned to face reporters and encouraged them to ask him if he’s ever smoked crack.

“Yes, I have smoked crack cocaine,” Ford said. “No, do I? Am I an addict? No.

“Have I tried it? Probably in one of my drunken stupors, probably approximately about a year ago.”

Ford admitted he’s “made mistakes.”

“All I can do now is apologize and move on,” he said. “All I can say is I’ve made mistakes.”

“There has been times when I have been in a drunken stupor, that’s why I want to see the tape.”
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
Zero Tolerance at its "finest"
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Sounds like a lot of parents are starting to push back on these zero tolerance policies. Sadly, that's exactly what needs to happen. Zero tolerance = zero culpability = zero liability. The school administrations are so afraid of parents targeting the school with legal action if their snowflake gets a boo-boo, the only way they'll listen is if they start getting hit from the OTHER side.
 
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Twitch Boy said:
Sounds like a lot of parents are starting to push back on these zero tolerance policies. Sadly, that's exactly what needs to happen. Zero tolerance = zero culpability = zero liability. The school administrations are so afraid of parents targeting the school with legal action if their snowflake gets a boo-boo, the only way they'll listen is if they start getting hit from the OTHER side.
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I wonder if civil suits could be filed over something like an expulsion/suspension... Put the whole "mental anguish" thing to some good use for once...
 
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RaceBoarder said:
I wonder if civil suits could be filed over something like an expulsion/suspension... Put the whole "mental anguish" thing to some good use for once...
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All it takes is one high speed kid (preferably ye olde media-friendly attractive white blonde female) with well-to-do parents who misses out on Harvard after she gets caught with a plastic butter knife in her lunch...

...or maybe a hundred of those...
 
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