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...Plenty of commentators have criticized Gibson's defense-cum-promotion of The Passion as meso-Messianic. When he declines to denounce his father Hunter, an extreme religious and political right-winger who has in articles and interviews come close to denying the Nazi holocaust, Mad Mel is supposedly seeing himself as the suffering Jesus and his dad as God the Father-He who demands the ultimate sacrifice, He who must be obeyed. Mel has also sounded addled, even paranoid, when he said that making this movie was putting his career on the line. But, as the saying goes, just because...
...still believe that India is in essence a Hindu nation and that the minorities may live in India only if they acknowledge this. After all, the RSS was founded in imitation of European fascist movements, and its early ideologue, Madhav Golwalkar, drew direct inspiration from the Holocaust. "To keep up the purity of the nation and its culture, Germany shocked the world by her purging of its Semitic races?the Jews," he once wrote. "National pride at its highest has been manifested here ... The non-Hindu people in Hindustan must entertain no idea but glorification of the Hindu race...
...spill out his opinions while his students took notes, is not about to change his m.o. just because he's in a Montreal hospital bed. So he thunders on about the long-ago killing of "200 million" American natives by European armies--"The greatest holocaust in history happened right here"--and snipes that his businessman son (Stephane Rousseau) "is a puritanical capitalist, while I am a sensual socialist." If Fox News had a left-wing channel in Quebec, Remy would be its Sean Hannity...
...Maus vols. I + II by Art Spiegelman (Pantheon; 1986) This history of the Holocaust as experienced by the author's father remains the best-known graphic novel ever published, and a major watershed in the "legitimizing" of the art form. The only graphic novel ever to win a Pulitzer, it also stands among the best works of Holocaust literature in any form...
Harvard Students for Choice President Abigail L. Fee ’05 cited the use of a Holocaust survivor’s story and the comparison of Planned Parenthood to white supremacist organizations as the elements of the publication that she found personally offensive...