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Kind of Blue

(8,709 posts)
15. No, she isn't and you need an update on the phrase
Tue Jun 18, 2019, 06:26 PM
Jun 2019

that keeps pace to address wickedness. Run your strict terminology by http://neveragain.org/ that "serve people in danger, connecting at-risk individuals and communities". Run it by https://www.neveragain.com/about/ that "support a variety of causes by sharing their missions, goals, and stories with our audience." Run it by http://neveragainrwanda.org whose mission is Peacebuilding, Governance & Rights, Education, Research & Advocacy, Sustainable Livelihood, Great Lakes program and Youth engagement.

How about https://www.facebook.com/NeverAgainMSD/ "Run by survivors of the Stoneman Douglas shooting. We are sick of the Florida lawmakers choosing money from the NRA over our safety. #NeverAgain"

Or https://www.neveragainfoundation.org/ whose mission is "to bring hope, justice, and healing to victims of domestic violence murder by providing holistic non-profit legal representation in the civil, probate and family courts."

Oh-oh, what about it's earliest usage as title of a silent film https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0269620/

And https://neveragain.tech/ that refuses to "build a database of people based on their Constitutionally-protected religious beliefs. We refuse to facilitate mass deportations of people the government believes to be undesirable."

“And Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor and author who came to be associated with the phrase, also used it in the universal sense.

'Never again’ becomes more than a slogan: It’s a prayer, a promise, a vow … never again the glorification of base, ugly, dark violence,” the Nobel laureate wrote in 2012.

"Never Again is a phrase that keeps on evolving. It was used in protests against the Muslim ban and in support of refugees, in remembrance of Japanese internment during World War II and recalling the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. And now the phrase is taking on yet another life: in the fight for gun control in America.
https://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Never-Again-From-a-Holocaust-phrase-to-a-universal-phrase-544666

The list of usage is long. Never Again is now ubiquitous. Please, try to keep up instead of the unconscious attempt to derail the point of the OP.

@AOC tweet to Liz Cheney...... [View all] riversedge Jun 2019 OP
K&R BlueJac Jun 2019 #1
AOC is 100% correct. Sanity Claws Jun 2019 #2
No, she is wrong dansolo Jun 2019 #7
What makes you think volstork Jun 2019 #14
No, she isn't and you need an update on the phrase Kind of Blue Jun 2019 #15
good post gabeana Jun 2019 #17
Thanks a lot Kind of Blue Jun 2019 #21
Excellent post. Blue_true Jun 2019 #31
So true. And thanks, Blue_true. Kind of Blue Jun 2019 #38
You last paragraph cuts to the heart of what AOC was saying, IMO. Take care. nt Blue_true Jun 2019 #40
You too, Blue_true. Kind of Blue Jun 2019 #42
She is right. Blue_true Jun 2019 #29
Let's put to rest the "specific reference to the Holocaust." Kind of Blue Jun 2019 #41
It is a gradual creeping process UpInArms Jun 2019 #44
WOW! BlueMTexpat Jun 2019 #47
King con has stopped Sports and xxqqqzme Jun 2019 #54
The Nazis rounded up people and put them in camps first delisen Jun 2019 #3
It was actually 11 million. cwydro Jun 2019 #39
Good for her Beringia Jun 2019 #4
What does the Honorable Liz Cheney call the camps that the Japanese-Americans were interned? Red Pest Jun 2019 #5
There are a lot of Jewish people in the 14th District, many of whom are.... George II Jun 2019 #6
Have you seen the reports coming out of these camps? Turin_C3PO Jun 2019 #9
It wasn't so much calling them concentration camps that got many people offended..... George II Jun 2019 #10
Agreed then, she shouldn't have said "Never Again". Turin_C3PO Jun 2019 #11
The term Never Again was used long before the Holocaust. Blue_true Jun 2019 #34
Excellent point! eom BlueMTexpat Jun 2019 #48
Absolutely no comparison... cactusfractal Jun 2019 #13
There are a lot of Jewish people in the responses defending AOC Saviolo Jun 2019 #12
+1000 Kind of Blue Jun 2019 #18
I would be one of them, if I had a Twitter account. bullwinkle428 Jun 2019 #22
+1000 smirkymonkey Jun 2019 #24
George, two people have made good points in this thread. Blue_true Jun 2019 #33
George hates everything about AOC because she was pro-Bernie. Lucky Luciano Jun 2019 #53
Rounding people up is step one in the process. patphil Jun 2019 #8
We have misused the term concentration camp with regards to what happen to Jews during the Holocaust gabeana Jun 2019 #16
+100,000 Kind of Blue Jun 2019 #19
Beat me to it. Excellent historical post. Caliman73 Jun 2019 #28
yes you are absolutely right gabeana Jun 2019 #32
Liz Cheney is another Dick. n/t Harker Jun 2019 #20
Take no prisoners, AOC. paleotn Jun 2019 #23
Even if it was an exageration.......SO WHAT if it makes the point? LiberalLovinLug Jun 2019 #25
I stand with AOC. She is one of the few that is brave enough to stand up to Ferrets are Cool Jun 2019 #26
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Jun 2019 #27
In a battle of wits, I think Ms Cheney is unarmed... Wounded Bear Jun 2019 #30
K&R UTUSN Jun 2019 #35
K&R UTUSN Jun 2019 #36
she's dropping the hammer again! Liz picked a fight with the wrong woman LOL Takket Jun 2019 #37
My take. sellitman Jun 2019 #43
Expert on Concentration Camps Says That's Exactly What the U.S. Is Running spedtr90 Jun 2019 #45
Ryan Saavedra is ultra RW, white nationalist, Rump virtual-fellating worm Celerity Jun 2019 #46
if it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, its a duck. AllaN01Bear Jun 2019 #49
perhaps you should ask lt sulu what a concentration camp is. AllaN01Bear Jun 2019 #50
she very specifically (and wisely) said "concentration camps." cab67 Jun 2019 #51
AOC 2024/2028! zentrum Jun 2019 #52
It would have been nice if AOC told Lizzy that, if she is so concerned about Submariner Jun 2019 #55
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