(July 29, 2023 at 5:36 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: What happened falls under one of two categories: 1) brain fart; 2) I-want-people-to-think-I’ve-actually-read-‘Gulag-Archipelago’-when-in-reality-I-wouldn’t-know-a Solzhenitsyn-book-if-I-tripped-over-it-ism.

Boru

Whichever it is, he clearly doesn't have a problem lying about why he got it wrong, because no one commits seven goddamned typos in one word.

(July 29, 2023 at 7:56 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Just to be clear: many Americans turned a blind eye to the Holocaust as well. It's not like anti-Semitism was unique to Catholics or Europeans.

Newspapers carried items on the Holocaust almost daily. I counted 600 Section One items in the NYT alone before Pearl Harbor.

(July 29, 2023 at 5:36 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: There is no possible set of circumstance under which Vladimir is a typo for Aleksandr. That’s not how typos work.

And it betrays a frightful lack of due diligence, too - how hard is it to Google a book to make sure you've got the title and the author's name right?

(July 29, 2023 at 8:39 pm)Astreja Wrote:

(July 29, 2023 at 5:36 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: There is no possible set of circumstance under which Vladimir is a typo for Aleksandr. That’s not how typos work.

And it betrays a frightful lack of due diligence, too - how hard is it to Google a book to make sure you've got the title and the author's name right?

Well, one has to be able to read and write...

No hope for that one to think as well...

(July 29, 2023 at 8:26 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:

(July 29, 2023 at 7:56 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Just to be clear: many Americans turned a blind eye to the Holocaust as well. It's not like anti-Semitism was unique to Catholics or Europeans.

Newspapers carried items on the Holocaust almost daily. I counted 600 Section One items in the NYT alone before Pearl Harbor.

Reported, acknowledged, and acted-upon are all different things.

Wow, I didn't know that. And you don't know what actions the articles incited.

(July 28, 2023 at 1:50 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: He's clearly ignorant

You could have stopped there Thump.

(July 29, 2023 at 9:17 pm)Ravenshire Wrote:

(July 28, 2023 at 1:50 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: He's clearly ignorant

You could have stopped there Thump.

Have you ever known me to use three words when twenty might do?!

(July 29, 2023 at 9:11 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Wow, I didn't know that. And you don't know what actions the articles incited.

Do your part and throw down some links then. Me, I don't see much in the way of Americans welcoming Jewish refugees from Germany. If you've got some dope spill it already.

(July 29, 2023 at 8:39 pm)Astreja Wrote:

(July 29, 2023 at 5:36 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: There is no possible set of circumstance under which Vladimir is a typo for Aleksandr. That’s not how typos work.

And it betrays a frightful lack of due diligence, too - how hard is it to Google a book to make sure you've got the title and the author's name right?

I'd google that name just to make sure I got it right, if I were unsure. "Aleksandr" is such an obvious cognate of "Alexander" that that isn't needed. I did need a mnemonic for his last name, one I taught myself 30 years ago before Google was a thing: "i" comes before the "y" in both the alphabet and Solzhenitsyn's name.

If you're going to quote anyone, get the goddamned name straight, however you do it.