“Both Sides” is Bullsh*t

Ovens at Auschwitz concentration camp where 1.1 million Jews, LGBT people and others were gassed to death and their bodies burned. Image by alanbatt from Pixabay

I ran across a chilling Medium piece calling for studying and teachin“both sides” of Nazism and US Slavery without interjecting any moral judgement about anybody’s actions. Because, this guy argues, nice, regular people living in Nazi Germany allowed horrifying things to happen to their neighbors but that doesn’t mean they were monsters.

Yeah, actually, it does. And when we aren’t clear about this, when we refuse to…