Pennsylvania Principal Orders Librarian to Take Down Elie Wiesel Quote

Tuesday, January 31, 2023

A Pennsylvania principal drew criticism last week after telling a Bucks County school librarian to take down posters with a famous quote by Elie Wiesel, the Nobel Peace Prize winning human rights activist, professor, and Holocaust survivor, just days before Holocaust Remembrance Day.

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"Despite being under investigation by the U.S. Dept. of Education's Office of Civil Rights after an ACLU complaint, the Central Bucks School District earlier this month voted 6-3 to pass "a contentious policy that bans teachers from engaging in advocacy activities' and displaying inclusive symbols like Pride flags in their classrooms," WHYY reported earlier this month."

The quote that was removed: "I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented."

#1 | Posted by snoofy at 2023-01-30 10:21 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

"The Jews and the Blacks, they don't belong in our history books"

-MAGAt losers

#2 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2023-01-30 10:39 PM | Reply

From another Shoah survivor, Primo Levi ...

In his first book, the memoir If This Is a Man (1947), Primo Levi describes his arrival at Auschwitz in February 1944. After the number 174517 is tattooed on his left forearm, he and other Italian deportees are shut into an empty barrack. "Driven by thirst, I eyed a fine icicle outside the window, within reach of my hand," Levi writes.

I opened the window and broke off the icicle, but at once a large, heavy guard prowling outside brutally snatched it away. "Warum?" [Why?] I asked in my poor German. "Hier ist kein warum" [Here there is no why], he replied, shoving me back inside.
claremontreviewofbooks.com

So slap that above library doors, schools, other repositories of memory: "Here There is No Why'"

#3 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2023-01-31 04:43 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

More one what's happening in this PA school district:

It Takes A Village: Expelling Right-Wing Extremism From Bucks County School Districts

What we are seeing today in Central Bucks School District is just the latest chapter in the history of the right's long war against public education--and progress in general.

The Central Bucks School District wants to remove four LGBTQ books from its libraries, as WHYY reporter Emily Rizzo reported. In the months leading up to its new library policy, the right-wing school board members' public surrogates insisted LGBTQ books amounted to "grooming." What's more, as USA Today Network reporter Chris Ullery uncovered, they outsourced the crafting of the administrative regulations for library policy 109.2 to the Independence Law Center, a firm affiliated with anti-LGBTQ Christian organization Pennsylvania Family Institute.

buckscountybeacon.com

#4 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2023-01-31 08:50 AM | Reply

My favorite Elie Wiesel quote:

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference."

We waste a lot of time and energy lumping those who actively hate people who are not like them with those who are simply indifferent to what others go through. Antagonists and psychopaths. Still not sure which is worse but they do present their own respective problems and require their own respective responses.

#5 | Posted by Hagbard_Celine at 2023-01-31 09:11 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

This is the same cult that stretches free speech to include bribing congressional representatives.

Obviously free speech stops at being a decent human being.

#6 | Posted by Corky at 2023-02-01 12:15 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Anti-semetic. What Jews went through in the Holocaust is nothing like woke male rapists not being allowed in women's prisons, girls bathrooms, or dressing rooms. Compare Gender ----- to Maus.

#7 | Posted by HeliumRat at 2023-02-01 01:00 AM | Reply

one sick mouse

#8 | Posted by Corky at 2023-02-01 01:07 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Communist sympathizer.

#9 | Posted by HeliumRat at 2023-02-01 01:12 AM | Reply

Corky, the far left wants to take away your God, burn your Bible, and crush you. They want to destroy Western civilization and replace it with communism. It's in their books.

Stop supporting terrorism and genocide.

P.S. The v.p. of Drag Queen Story Hour got arrested for possession of child pornography. The whole time, they just wanted access to your kids.

#10 | Posted by HeliumRat at 2023-02-01 01:18 AM | Reply

So of course all those who honor the words also honor the struggle of the Palestinian people?

#11 | Posted by Hughmass at 2023-02-01 06:02 AM | Reply

You're one sick and pathetic little mouse helium...
I feel sorry for you fidgeting away your time with
such non-existent threats (except those existing
in your head).

This kid 'drank all the rightwing Kool Aid'.

#12 | Posted by earthmuse at 2023-02-01 06:32 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Don't kid yourselves people.

Rightwing Nationalists = Fascists

every single time...

#13 | Posted by earthmuse at 2023-02-01 06:34 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"P.S. The v.p. of Drag Queen Story Hour got arrested for possession of child pornography. The whole time, they just wanted access to your kids."

another factcheck fail

#14 | Posted by 0therwis3008 at 2023-02-01 08:11 AM | Reply

- replace it with communism

Now we know where the Zombie Karl Marx lives... in Ratty's head.

I bet it hates the black velvet Elvis posters.

#15 | Posted by Corky at 2023-02-01 10:59 AM | Reply

P.S. The v.p. of Drag Queen Story Hour got arrested for possession of child pornography. The whole time, they just wanted access to your kids.

#10 | POSTED BY HELIUMRAT

Two seconds on Google proves you are a liar.

Two seconds reading your post history proves no one should be surprised.

#16 | Posted by Sycophant at 2023-02-01 11:24 AM | Reply

Sometimes they say the quite part out loud:

On the one hand, I hate it that weirdos like Rufo are put in charge of any aspect of Florida higher ed by Desantis. On the other hand, it is a good thing for normal people to hear and see exactly who these people are when they get mainstreamed.

Christopher Rufo says that schools are teaching kids to "feel bad about having White privilege"

twitter.com

#17 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2023-02-01 11:57 AM | Reply

quite = quiet

#18 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2023-02-01 12:12 PM | Reply

Incel Kook.

#19 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2023-02-01 02:29 PM | Reply

Republicans view the truth and history as enemies to their goals.

They continue to attempt to make it harder to vote, gerrymander the s*** out of districts, and constantly move the goalposts.

Now, they're coming after children in an attempt to blind them to racism and disparagement of "others."

What an evil political party the GOP have become.

#20 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2023-02-01 03:01 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

The quote marginalizes and shames quiet people.

Do those people have a right to be silent or neutral?

Why demand someone take a side? Could it be because you expect them to take YOUR side?

They might not, you know??

#21 | Posted by eberly at 2023-02-01 03:09 PM | Reply

"The quote marginalizes and shames quiet people."

Your quote shames you.

#22 | Posted by snoofy at 2023-02-01 03:13 PM | Reply

"Why demand someone take a side?"

To prevent the Holocaust, Eberly.

#23 | Posted by snoofy at 2023-02-01 03:13 PM | Reply

I'm just messin around.......

#24 | Posted by eberly at 2023-02-01 03:16 PM | Reply

Beverly votes for Nazis because "Kansas"

What a gutless, whining little bitch.

#25 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2023-02-01 08:18 PM | Reply

If the Russians brought facts and figures free of emotion and ideology they might actually win an argument.

#26 | Posted by Tor at 2023-02-01 08:25 PM | Reply

#10
"Corky, the far left wants to take away your God, burn your Bible, and crush you. They want to destroy Western civilization and replace it with communism. It's in their books."

List of books please. Try to focus on ones from the current century.

"Stop supporting terrorism and genocide."
Wasn't the far left the attacked my capital and attempted to stop the peaceful transfer of power which even the Southern traitors didn't do.
Wasn't the far left that blew up the Murrah Federal building.
Isn't the far left that is attempting to suppress literature/art that it doesn't like.

Not sure which genocide you are going on about or how rejecting the madness that the republican party has become supports that genocide. Unless this is the PWT "they shall not replace us" mental diarrhea. Hitler called, he wants his excuses back.

Others have covered the drag queen terror squad issue, so on to:

#24 Eberly, you do that a lot. Sometimes its insightful, funny, offensive, or too stupid to take seriously; depends on the day, subject, and your mood (I suspect). You aren't Heliumrat, EffetePoser, Wolfdog, et al, the walking wounded of the ideology wars.

#27 | Posted by Killjoy at 2023-02-01 08:36 PM | Reply

#26 Russians don't do facts. Facts get you killed. Ideology is meaningless, there is only power. Don't draw attention of the powerful and live another year. Drink away the pain of an empty life.

Welcome to the mental hellscape that is neo-imperial Russia.

#28 | Posted by Killjoy at 2023-02-01 08:48 PM | Reply