Word: holocaust
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...more than ever, there is a desperate need for education about the Holocaust. Steven Spielberg's most recent film, "Schindler's List," fills a critical gap in educating America about this monumental tragedy...
...film submerges the viewers in the horrors of the Holocaust, it does not allow them to drown there. If provides the possibility of redemption, of light in the midst of so much darkness. It affirms that although humans have the capacity for evil such as is depicted in the movie, they also have the capacity for good which will allow them to combat the evil. Painful, beautiful, uplifting and indelible, "Schindler's List" reveals itself as the most supremely humanist of films...
...Post's argument for running the ad might be viable if Holocaust revisionism were indeed a "view." But a contradiction of fact isn't an opinion, it's a mistake. People who think the world is flat don't just disagree with the rest of the world; they're wrong...
...number of college newspapers rejected the Holocaust ad for that reason: The ad was untruthful. Indeed, that was part of the rationale Crimson editors used when deciding not to run the ad. But that reasoning, we learned, can lead to trouble. When Bradley Smith heard the college newspaper staffs' we-won't-run-lies arguments, he tried to trip up the students with their own logic. He sent out a second ad, this one more limited in subject and more innocuous in tone. It suggested that people rethink the Holocaust, but didn't refute facts outright...
...decision to review ads often pits a newspaper's editorial and business sides against each other. Each Holocaust ad would have given the Crimson more than 1,000 much-needed dollars. But the division isn't always the same, with business aching to run the ad and editorial aching to quash it. Long ago on my high school paper, the sides were switched...