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Linda McMahons answer on Holocaust denialism should scare us
by Rep. Mark Takano (D-Calif.), opinion contributor - 07/21/25 2:30 PM
WH on Harvard civil rights anti-semitism violations
https://thehill.com/opinion/education/5410977-harvard-faculty-hiring-holocaust-denial/
Questioner: Madam Secretary, does refusing to hire a Holocaust denier as a member of Harvards history department faculty count as an ideological litmus test?
Witness: I believe that there should be diversity of viewpoints relative to teachings and opinions on campuses.
Had I just heard that correctly? Had Education Secretary Linda McMahon really just said Holocaust denialism was just a diverse view point?
I was shocked. But just recently, this exchange really happened.

wcmagumba
(4,759 posts)She seems nice, for a Nazi...Un effing believable...
pat_k
(11,917 posts)But you reminded me how good the Producers was. The 1968 version:
Although the 2005 version with John Barrowman and Nathan Lane is is quite fun too!
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Haggard Celine
(17,475 posts)
littlemissmartypants
(29,900 posts)DBoon
(24,321 posts)Should the Evolutionary Biology Department hire a creationist?
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DBoon
(24,321 posts)Response to DBoon (Reply #36)
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DBoon
(24,321 posts)Shipwack
(2,866 posts)In fact, it will eventually be mandatory, if they get their way.
dlk
(12,972 posts)If someone doesnt know the difference, they dont belong at Harvard, or on any other faculty.
lame54
(38,480 posts)The WWE never existed?
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popsdenver
(544 posts)Brainless Bimbo Trump Appointee.............Anyone who watches WWE is definitely a Trumphumper and has an IQ under 70.....seriously
That's why she fits in so well...........Heaven Help Us.........
Gimpyknee
(737 posts)stonecutter357
(12,904 posts)
maxrandb
(16,870 posts)At least that's what I see REPEATEDLY on DU.
The Retrumplicans and the right aren't Nazis, they just think we should respect Nazi views...and when given the POWER OF THE STATE, they make sure we do.
Beastly Boy
(13,283 posts)Denying that the problem exists on the left covers up only half of it.
maxrandb
(16,870 posts)Not a left appointed Secretary of Education!
Not a left appointed Secretary of Homeland Security!
Not a left appointed Secretary of Defense!
Not a left appointed Confederate Majority Supreme Court!
Not even a drag queen.
I will admit that the left has an antisemitism problem, as soon as the left uses its political power to appoint actual fucking Nazis to positions of state sanctioned power, like the Reich has done repeatedly.
Until then, you're doing nothing but tilting at windmills,
Beastly Boy
(13,283 posts)I am curious, were you in denial of right wing antisemitism when the Obama administration was making the appointments?
Do your views on antisemitism regularly change with each new administration?
That's hilarious!
If one side (the Reich) repeatedly and continuously appoints Nazis to positions of power when they run the most powerful country in the world, and the other side (the left) NEVER appoints Nazis to positions of power when they run the most powerful country in the world, then yes, YES A THOUSAND TIMES.
I have NEVER denied antisemitism on the Reich. Shit, that's what I am talking about.
Discrimination and ethnic bias is disgusting. Antisemites, racists, fascists, misogynists, etc., have lost their souls, BUT, without the power of the state behind them, they are nothing but individually broken people.
Sorry, but I don't waste my time on morally broken people, but I will fight to my last breath when those broken people have the power of the state on their side.
You can't fix souls that have surrendered to evil, but you can make sure they never have state sanctioned power. That's why I am a proud leftist, progressive Democrat.
Beastly Boy
(13,283 posts)you are in denial of literally thousands of years of history, and are only aware of the past 100 or so years of it.
That's even more hilarious!
tanyev
(47,912 posts)When it denies the Holocaust?
Disgusting.
Karasu
(2,003 posts)Last edited Tue Jul 22, 2025, 10:55 PM - Edit history (1)
I despise this post-factual reality we're all living in.
mdbl
(7,455 posts)They are very common.
littlemissmartypants
(29,900 posts)At least that's my experience.
Joinfortmill
(18,997 posts)IcyPeas
(24,303 posts)They showed her picture.... the clue was about accepting a job in a department that the administration wants to get rid of.... something to that effect.
Ugghh. I hate when any clue on jeopardy is trump related. I wish they wouldn't. (Unless it was to ridicule him/them). I doubt many magats watch jeopardy.
B.See
(6,786 posts)and certainly won't be the LAST. MANY of em are Nazis, and Nazi sympathizers too. In spite of pretense to the contrary.
BurnDoubt
(1,066 posts)I think the Idea is to make Outrage so commonplace that it becomes meaningless.
Bernardo de La Paz
(58,955 posts)applegrove
(128,401 posts)Orrex
(66,103 posts)iemanja
(56,815 posts)BlueTsunami2018
(4,640 posts)And people keep telling me this can be solved some other way.
It cant.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,740 posts)These MAGATs are simply brainwashed batshit crazy.
KY
Norrrm
(3,054 posts)Books on Holocaust should be balanced with 'opposing' views, school leader tells teachers
Eisenhower wanted the Holocaust and death camps thoroughly documented because he knew there would be these evil scum who would try to deny it.
Yet Trump has his 6MWE and Camp Auschwitz followers. That's anti-denial in his own camp. (6 Million Wasn't Enough)
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=6mwe
Initech
(106,423 posts)Fuck Nazis, they all belong in the trash!
Norrrm
(3,054 posts)Some right wingers deny the Holocaust. Others openly brag about it.
The Trumpsters marching in Charlottesville were yelling about the ovens ready for the Jews again.
We killed six million Jews the last time, he answered. Eleven million is nothing.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029494753
We also have Trumpsters wearing 'Camp Auschwitz' shirts and 6MWE to remind us.

spanone
(140,298 posts)THE SICKEST OF FUCKS
Behind the Aegis
(55,656 posts)Holocaust denial, minimalization, revisionism, and misappropriation, are all popular now. Frankly, the survivors can't die quick enough for some.
surfered
(9,455 posts)
Figarosmom
(8,781 posts)Slavery should be taught about both sides.
Martin68
(26,519 posts)them of that foolish notion.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(13,270 posts)and someone who states that the Earth is 8,000 years old to control the National Science Foundation.
OldBaldy1701E
(9,153 posts)maxsolomon
(37,426 posts)She doesn't want to answer a hypothetical.
MorbidButterflyTat
(3,722 posts)of being told I'm supposed to be "scared."
Why does so many media demand that "we" be "scared," terrified, etc.?
Fuck that.