Cool clip- I’d read he was into Tuva but had never seen that interview.

No offense, but hahaha.

“The culture, for reasons best left unexamined, suddenly started to care a LOT more and talk a lot more about the Holocaust.”

Yes, indeed some thoughts are better left unthought.

“I’m trying to procure one of Amir Temur without going to Uzbekistan.”

Go! Let it be your Tuva!

On the question of gender, I’m torn between

- the view that there is no actual such thing at all, and therefore no limits to what sexual orientation a person can have or what behaviour mode they can adopt, and that consequently they are actually unlimited and free to choose to do anything at all, except call themselves a biological thing they are not

- the view that gender is a synonym for which sex do you think you are, in which case if they don’t match it’s like any dysphoria, a form of mental illness. The treatment measures are open to discussion. Our attitude can be generous. But even so, there are only two genders and two sexes, so a square of four options.

All the rest, how one dresses, how one behaves, etc., ought to be actually freer if one does not try to create artificial points on an artificial spectrum and then categorize them.

I’m happy to admit I think that is just the dressed up version of the schoolchild answer, two.

You’re right, presuming your point was made seriously, that something happened in the 80s and 90s. The culture, for reasons best left unexamined, suddenly started to care a LOT more and talk a lot more about the Holocaust.

Still hard for me to believe no one knew about it. They did probably put it in a different perspective as to its world-shaking importance.

Oddly, progressives now also care a lot more about the Holodomor too, as long as they can beat the Russians with it. They emphatically did not care as late as the 1980s. Denied it until almost the last minute, and certainly did not and largely still don’t equate it unless it can be somehow used as part of some mutually reinforcing narrative.

At any rate, I still haven’t managed to procure a small statue of Stalin for my office. I’m trying to procure one of Amir Temur without going to Uzbekistan.

I wager neither you nor I know the proper answer to this question, but we can find out if we ask any schoolchild in the country.

I would go so far as to say that the great bulk of society didn’t become fully aware of the Holocaust until the early 1990′s, especially with the 1993 establishment of the National Holocaust Museum and the 1993 release of Steven Spielberg’s even-keeled documentary, Schindler’s List, which (as everyone knows) was

featured on a number of “best of” lists, including the TIME magazine’s Top Hundred as selected by critics Richard Corliss and Richard Schickel,[4] Time Out magazine’s 100 Greatest Films Centenary Poll conducted in 1995,[118] and Leonard Maltin’s “100 Must See Movies of the Century”.[5] The Vatican named Schindler’s List among the most important 45 films ever made.[119] A Channel 4 poll named Schindler’s List the ninth greatest film of all time,[6] and it ranked fourth in their 2005 war films poll.[120] The film was named the best of 1993 by critics such as James Berardinelli,[121] Roger Ebert,[89] and Gene Siskel.[122] Deeming the film “culturally significant”, the Library of Congress selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry in 2004.[123] Spielberg won the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film for his work,[124] and shared the Producers Guild of America Award for Best Theatrical Motion Picture with co-producers Branko Lustig and Gerald R. Molen.[125] Steven Zaillian won the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.[126]
The film also won the National Board of Review for Best Film, along with the National Society of Film Critics for Best Film, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Cinematography.[127] Awards from the New York Film Critics Circle were also won for Best Film, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Cinematographer.[128] The Los Angeles Film Critics Association awarded the film for Best Film, Best Cinematography (tied with The Piano), and Best Production Design.[129] The film also won numerous other awards and nominations worldwide.[130]

Quite frankly, the fact that America managed to so totally cover up and suppress the knowledge of the well-documented facts finally revealed by Schindler’s List — facts such as the heartbreaking Jewish stampede, or the heartless headshaving, or the fake showers — for nearly two full generations following that incomparable event, is testament to just how deeply, incorrigibly, and irredeemably antisemitic this civilization really is.

As the heirs of that civilization and its monstrous crimes, we must take up our hereditary burden to repair the world.

Take up the white straight cis male’s burden —
Send forth the least ye need —
Go bind your gals to exile
To serve your captives’ need;
To wait in skimpy garment,
On folk in glen and dale —
Your Habibs and your Pajeets,
Half-Aryan and half-wale.

Take up the white straight cis male’s burden —
In patience to abide,
To check the threat of terror
And crush the Arab’s pride;
By open speech and simple,
An hundred times made plain
To seek another’s profit,
And work another’s gain.

Take up the white straight cis male’s burden —
The savage wars of peace —
Fill full the mouth of Mammon,
Forbid the pipeline cease;
And when your goal is nearest
The end for others sought,
Watch dumb and orangey Donald
Bring all your hopes to nought.

Take up the white straight cis male’s burden —
No tawdry rule of kings,
But agency and central bank —
The tale of common things.
The ports ye shall not enter,
The roads ye shall not tread,
Go make them with your living,
And mark them with your dead.

Take up the white straight cis male’s burden —
And reap his old reward:
The bomb of those ye better,
The boot of those ye guard —
The cry of those of tumour
(Ah, slowly!) toward the light:–
“We brought ye us to bondage,
Our loved Egyptian night!’

Take up the white straight cis male’s burden —
Ye dare not stoop to less —
Nor call too loud on Priv’lege
To cloak your weariness;
By all ye cry or whisper,
By all ye leave or do,
Our one true greatest ally
Shall weigh its gods and you.

Take up the white straight cis male’s burden —
Have done with bygone days —
The Prussian-profferred treaties,
The status quo ante ways.

Comes now, to do your gal work
Through all the childless years
Cold, edged with store-bought wisdom,
The judgment of your mirrors!

So say we all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_H._Goddard

Am I to believe that up to 1981 “most people” in the US truly had not heard of these events? I always assumed that claim was bogus.