MarthaKumar

Was Hearst Right to Force Helen Thomas to Retire?

First, let's get this out of the way: Helen Thomas' videotaped remarks cannot be condoned or excused. Even in this Internet-fueled Age of Vituperation, what she said was appalling. Send Jews "back" to Germany? Good Lord. Nearly every German Jew was exterminated by the Nazis. Return Jews to Poland? This is reminiscent of racists' calls from earlier generations to send blacks back to Africa – except it's worse because Auschwitz, Belzec, and Treblinka are the places in Poland seared into Jewish memory. These are the place names of the Holocaust. While I'm dispensing history lessons, the ...

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