I am all in favor of moving past it, BUT... I'm not sure it's *nonsense*. It would have helped things *hugely* if they'd spent 38 seconds on screen to explain this.
If Easten "knew better" than to use 'real' Nazi plunder than he should have "known better" to differentiate it TO the AUDIENCE. He showed a Swaztika which puts most people - at least most Americans - in the mind of "oh, Nazis, we know what they did there." But Easten wasn't quite going *there*.
He really should know better than to think Americans know much about history. I'm a history TEACHER and I didn't catch that Easten wasn't alluding to direct Nazi confiscation of property from Jews and "Others".
So yes, let's move on. But really, Jeff, this should have been made clearer.
Maybe he didn't expect people to jump to conclusions and immediately overreact in the worst way possible?
I'm a history teacher too, I actually live in a country that was ravished and half-destroyed by Nazis and I didn't see why everybody immediately went up in arms about it - nowhere was it said that it was Jewish art and I thought it was pretty self-sufficient.
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Date: 2011-06-09 03:11 pm (UTC)If Easten "knew better" than to use 'real' Nazi plunder than he should have "known better" to differentiate it TO the AUDIENCE. He showed a Swaztika which puts most people - at least most Americans - in the mind of "oh, Nazis, we know what they did there." But Easten wasn't quite going *there*.
He really should know better than to think Americans know much about history. I'm a history TEACHER and I didn't catch that Easten wasn't alluding to direct Nazi confiscation of property from Jews and "Others".
So yes, let's move on. But really, Jeff, this should have been made clearer.
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Date: 2011-06-09 04:03 pm (UTC)I'm a history teacher too, I actually live in a country that was ravished and half-destroyed by Nazis and I didn't see why everybody immediately went up in arms about it - nowhere was it said that it was Jewish art and I thought it was pretty self-sufficient.