Editorial board should review content of ads
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by Bill Baller
Adjunct Assistant Professor of History |
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While I appreciate your willingness to volunteer your time to produce a quality campus newspaper, you should have demonstrated more care before running the advertisement for CODOH. If the ad's reference to "thought police" does not suggest that the people behind the ad had an extreme political agenda, you only needed to click on the web site to see that CODOH wants to promote hate and not shed light on World War II or the Holocaust. Explore further and you find holocaust deniers making all sort of dangerous and ludicrous allegations, including America's World War II Army Air Force perpetrated violence against innocent civilians that rivaled the uniquely horrible crimes of the Nazis.
While any historian recognizes CODOH as a purveyor of hate and twisted history, the holocaust deniers' material is slick and insidious and might appear to possess some credibility to the uninformed. At a time when many graduate from college without taking a single history class, does WPI want its graduates and future leaders leaving campus incorrectly believing that the Nazis were not all that bad, that US veterans are lying about the Holocaust, and the US Army Air Force perpetrated inexcusable horrors that rivaled Hitler's military!
History is much more important than most people realize and the Tech News Editorial Board should review the content of ads like CODOH's much more carefully in the future.
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