I'd like to say I'm shocked, or even enraged, but instead I'm just really, really sad.
To the IFC's organizers, it is not only history's triumphs that illuminate, but also its failures. The public will have come to see 9/11 but will be given a high-tech, multimedia tutorial about man's inhumanity to man, from Native American genocide to the lynchings and cross-burnings of the Jim Crow South, from the Third Reich's Final Solution to the Soviet gulags and beyond. This is a history all should know and learn, but dispensing it over the ashes of Ground Zero is like creating a Museum of Tolerance over the sunken graves of the USS Arizona.
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I would say this is galling. Too hell with a memorial to those that died. Just tack up some crackpot exhibit to human rights, which has nothing to do with the site. I wouldn't be surprised if somehow that exhibit lead one to the conclusion that the "little Eichman's" were the ones responsible for their own demise.
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