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| My Family Was Hunted by Nazis. But I Was Fired For ‘Defending Hitler.' |
| 2023-07-27 |
| [FreePress] David Volodzko criticized Lenin in ’The Seattle Times.’ Now he is without a job. A story of profound intolerance in our country’s most "tolerant" city. I was just fired from my job at The Seattle Times after defending Hitler. The only problem is, I never defended Hitler. In fact, my family was hunted by the Nazis; my grandfather was a Nazi killer who later almost died in a concentration camp; and some of my best journalistic work has been exposing neo-Nazi lies. But if you want to hear a story about the intolerance in our country’s "most tolerant" city and the erosion of civil discourse in American life, read on. I began my career as a university lecturer of English and logic. Then, drawn by the need to tell stories of structural oppression, I switched to journalism. I have been a journalist for the past 15 years and have spent almost all of my adult life in Asia—four years in Japan, six in South Korea, three in China, one year traveling Southeast Asia, and two in Nepal and India, where for a short period I was homeless in Mumbai. But that’s another story. My work has largely focused on East Asian politics and culture—everything from sexism in South Korea to the terrifying rise of Nazi chic in Mongolia. I wrote about North Korean refugees and Europe’s racist opposition to the Syrian refugee crisis. While living in Israel, I wrote about Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier who was held by Hamas for five years until he was released in a prisoner exchange in 2011. |
| Posted by:Thing From Snowy Mountain |
| #8 You lay with socialists, you get killed by socialists. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2023-07-27 14:06 |
| #7 Re #4, Mike sucks up to kapos for scr@ps: "Greg Gutfeld in Holocaust lapse!" Me: "Screaming and beatings At Daily Mail meetings As editors misplace their CAPS!" |
| Posted by: rapping Pappy 2023-07-27 13:53 |
| #6 "You clearly keep your chisels sharp, Zenobia F." Rantburg Poet Laureate Your posts poems make me smile Z. |
| Posted by: mossomo 2023-07-27 13:23 |
| #5 They completely turned around what Gutfeld said. He was responding to Jessica Tarlov's assertion that Jews in concentration camps learned skills just like slaves did. What he said was the Jews didn't learn skills, they skilled people survived because they already had the skills. If you didn't have a skill useful to the Nazis you died. That's what he said. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2023-07-27 11:40 |
| #3 Wondering if you had distant ancestry in a Death Camp, killed or victimized by National Socialists (aka Nazi's )? Checkout the Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database BTW: The name "Volodzko" does not seem to show up in the Holocaust Survivors and Victims Databas. I wonder why? |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2023-07-27 07:32 |
| #2 The purpose of a poem, it seems to me, is to take a hunk of language as if it were a large piece of marble, carving away all that is not the verbal equivalent of Michelangelo’s David. You clearly keep your chisels sharp, Zenobia F. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2023-07-27 03:40 |
| #1 A tempest, a teacup, a rattle. A red diaper baby, a battle: Which socialist's worse? Hitler, Lenin, or-- "Nurse! Bring my bottle!" Asleep in Seattle. |
| Posted by: Squinty Crusonter4971 2023-07-27 01:08 |