Holocaust Museum LA retracts "Never Again" message - promises to "do better"

[bythoughts]

Can't make this stuff up.
Although Jewish Journal is a better source for this.

After first posting "Never again can’t only mean never again for Jews... Jews were raised to say ‘Never Again.’ That means never again. For anyone... Jews must not let the trauma of our past silence our conscience.... Standing with humanity does not betray our people. It honors them."

comes the apology...

“Holocaust Museum LA, the first survivor-founded and oldest Holocaust museum in the country, is committed to its core mission to educate, commemorate, and inspire,” the HMLA statement said. “We recently posted an item on social media that was part of a pre-planned social media campaign intended to promote inclusivity and community that was easily open to misinterpretation by some to be a political statement reflecting the ongoing situation in the Middle East. That was not our intent. It has been removed to avoid any further confusion. We promise to do better and we will ensure that posts in the future are more thoughtfully designed and thoroughly vetted. We have taken actions internally to ensure our message always remains clear and reflective of our mission to inspire humanity through truth.”

The phrase that comes to my mind here is, "You had one job..."

The claim that it was "misinterpreted" to be a political statement, however 'easily', despite the phrase about "betray our people", seems dishonest to me.
The "thoroughly vetted" promise hints toward the sort of censorship that they surely expected when Trump changed the board of directors.

But when genocide is understood as an act that is only wrong if it is done to the wrong people by the wrong people, how much good is international law or a genocide museum?

 

[The Brad Dad]

Can't make this stuff up.
Although Jewish Journal is a better source for this.

After first posting "Never again can’t only mean never again for Jews... Jews were raised to say ‘Never Again.’ That means never again. For anyone... Jews must not let the trauma of our past silence our conscience.... Standing with humanity does not betray our people. It honors them."

comes the apology...

“Holocaust Museum LA, the first survivor-founded and oldest Holocaust museum in the country, is committed to its core mission to educate, commemorate, and inspire,” the HMLA statement said. “We recently posted an item on social media that was part of a pre-planned social media campaign intended to promote inclusivity and community that was easily open to misinterpretation by some to be a political statement reflecting the ongoing situation in the Middle East. That was not our intent. It has been removed to avoid any further confusion. We promise to do better and we will ensure that posts in the future are more thoughtfully designed and thoroughly vetted. We have taken actions internally to ensure our message always remains clear and reflective of our mission to inspire humanity through truth.”

The phrase that comes to my mind here is, "You had one job..."

The claim that it was "misinterpreted" to be a political statement, however 'easily', despite the phrase about "betray our people", seems dishonest to me.
The "thoroughly vetted" promise hints toward the sort of censorship that they surely expected when Trump changed the board of directors.

But when genocide is understood as an act that is only wrong if it is done to the wrong people by the wrong people, how much good is international law or a genocide museum?

The folks who keep trying to make the genocide in Gaza into an anti semitic issue are bad actors acting in bad faith.

 

[Craig234]

The evil and the corruption is monstrous.

 

[Dans La Lune]

Never Again apparently only applies to fascists.

 

[Craig234]

@Dans La Lune It's worth noting today, the difference in how the US views one attack on it, compared to how it views countless attacks it's done. Proportionally, Gaza has had a 0/11 nearly hourly for two years, leaving all two millions in a war crime famine.

 

[Fledermaus]

@Dans La Lune It's worth noting today, the difference in how the US views one attack on it, compared to how it views countless attacks it's done. Proportionally, Gaza has had a 0/11 nearly hourly for two years, leaving all two millions in a war crime famine.

9/11 losses X days in a year.

365 X 2,996 = 1,093,540

9/11 loses X hours in a year.

365 x 8760 = 26,244,960

Math ain't your thing....

 

[bythoughts]

9/11 losses X days in a year.

365 X 2,996 = 1,093,540

9/11 loses X hours in a year.

365 x 8760 = 26,244,960

Math ain't your thing....

The previous post said "proportionally", so you need to take that x 2.2 million / 340 million, if you're comparing Gaza vs. United States. That would give 170,000. According to a study in the Lancet, a death rate of more than that was "plausible" when the official death count was around 35,000. Conclusion: the math is confirmed, with the caveat that "proportional" comparisons involve some arbitrary philosophy. (If you think of 9/11 as an attack on New York, then their per capita rate was much higher)