commemoration

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• 2/26/2023
  

  Suppression of Public Commemoration is an Early Warning of Authoritarian Abuse of History

  by Ruben Zeeman

  While several laws pertaining to historical memory have been passed under nationalist regimes in Europe, other authoritarian societies actively use other laws as an excuse to suppress inconvenient historic commemorations, reflecting a broad and growing pattern of subordinating history to power.

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• SOURCE: Jacobin
  1/27/2022
  

  Remember, too, the Victims Nazis Singled Out for their Politics

  by Adam J. Sacks

  A German organization dedicated to the remembrance of left-wing victims of the Nazis has had its charitable status revoked. While the history of Nazism's persecution and murder of Jews and other groups is rightly commemorated, Nazism's violence against the political left has been obscured. 

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• SOURCE: Seattle Times
  3/2/2020
  

  Bellevue College President, Vice President Out after Mural on Japanese American Incarceration was Altered

  The deletion was condemned by the Seattle chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League, which called the act “tantamount to agreement with the hate speech of decades past.”

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• 3/1/2020
  

  The Conservative Case for Moving Forrest's Bust

  by Michael Nelson

  To the extent that the arguments of both Forrest’s liberal critics and conservative defenders are valid, the debate about how to remember him is a hard one to resolve. But are the arguments of his defenders valid? I’m a conservative who’s not so sure.