(January 28, 2019 at 5:53 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: Admittedly, I think Yonadav is just trying to take the more pragmatic (if blatantly exploitative) attitude many rich people take towards hiring illegal immigrants, and spinning it around in such a way that it looks like the xenophobia behind this whole movement is the fault of the left and not the right. I know I’ve been souring about the left over the past few years, but I know better than to fall for that sort of bullshit. A “not so different” approach might make sense, but shifting the blame so heavily that it seems like Obama is more anti-immigrant than Trump is fucking dumb. Personal hypocrisy doesn’t make up for the horrible policy any more than hiring a Jewish housemaid/mistress makes up for being one of the most horrifying concentration camp commandants of the entire Nazi era (and that’s really saying something; in the film, Goeth’s antics were actually toned down and we’re extreme enough that even the other Nazis thought he went too far):
Schindler's List is one of my favorite movies of all time.
As far as a movie about a lesson to humanity as far as what not to do it is #1, hands down.
One of the most horrible scenes in it, depicting the horrible arbitrary cruelty was the scene where the lady prisoner Architect pointed out to the Nazis that they were building a structure wrong in the camp. One asshole murders her for the questioning then orders the other Nazis to correct the mistake.
But in reality, while only a movie, that was the type of horrible cruelty that happened in reality. If you were the captured of the Nazis, unless you were physically fit, they sent you to the gas chambers. If you were fit to work, they worked you to death.
