[Kzyxtalk] culling

[sako4 at comcast.net]

Jim, 

The whole "culling" thing got to me. My father's family was decimated by the Nazis. 

A direct bloodline relative, Kazimierz Sakowicz, was a Polish journalist who documented the slaughter -- the culling -- of Jews on an almost daily basis between July 1941 and August, 1944 at a place called the Ponary rail yards in German-occupied Poland, currently Lithuania. Those poor bastards "didn't make the cut", as Mr. Keller so indelicately stated. They were culled because Jews didn't meet Nazi standards for eugenics. 

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponary_massacre 

Kazimierz Sakowicz later put down his pen and picked up a gun. He joined the Polish resistance and fought the Nazis. He was caught during Operation Tempest and executed. 

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazimierz_Sakowicz 

Words like "culling" and expressions like "didn't make the cut" should be stricken from our vocabulary when referring to human beings. I even object to those words being used when talking about animals. It shows a disrespect for life. 

John 
----- Original Message -----

From: "Jim Heid" <jim at heidsite.com> 
To: "kzyxtalk" <kzyxtalk at lists.mcn.org> 
Sent: Wednesday, December 2, 2015 1:10:59 PM 
Subject: Re: [Kzyxtalk] culling 

On Dec 2, 2015, at 12:00 PM, sako wrote: 



Keller's talk scares me. Keller should have been at the railroad platform with Josef Mengele and Rudolf Hoess at Auschwitz-Birkenau "culling" women and children from able-bodied men and other possible slave laborers. 




What an absolutely disgusting comparison. 

No matter what your impressions of the hiring process — which I have absolutely no knowledge of or involvement in — comparing ANY part of it and any participant in it to the Nazis is incendiary and utterly moronic. 

It volumes about you. 

J 


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