Today's discussion questions

[sabotabby]

It's another one of those long days at school and I won't be around, so here are two discussion questions for you. Fight talk amongst yourselves.

1. What do we think of this news story? There's a lot in there, so let's pick it to pieces.

2. Speaking of genocide, the Toronto District School Board has a new history course dealing with the subject. It officially recognizes three genocides: Armenia, the Holocaust, and Rwanda. What's missing, and why do you think they chose to exclude the genocide that happened in the country where the course will be taught.

Have a happy Friday!

Comments

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

It's not quite what it appears. IBM, before the war, was a leader in IT for national censuses. They marketed aggresively to the German and Austrian governments among others. That technology was used in the Holocaust. The technology was supported by IBM Germany during the war but by then Armonk had no contact or control over IBM Germany.

I'm no fan of IBM. I usedf to work for them and hated it. But let's look at a modern parallel. Let's say Microsoft sold SQL Server to the government of Israel which then used that software to track Palestinians it wanted to rub out would you really say that Microsoft was responsible?

[auralarua.livejournal.com]

The technology was supported by IBM Germany during the war but by then Armonk had no contact or control over IBM Germany.
That's everyone's excuse for their involvement in the Holocaust! Okay though.

that is . . .

[auralarua.livejournal.com]

had no contact or control over *insert company here* Germany

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

That's everyone's excuse for their involvement in the Holocaust!

But it's true. I mean you wouldn't blame a German chemical company for the bombing of Dresden because their pre-war US subsidiary made explosives for the US Air Force. Or would you?

[auralarua.livejournal.com]

I think I'm going to need some more analogies.