The Culture of Victimization

Mel Gibson has announced plans for a non-fiction mini-series concerning the Holocaust. Specifically, about the life of Jewish woman, Flory Van Beek, during the Holocuast. Obviously, he's going to be watched closely because of his father's comments and so we should expect a fair product. Let's hope anyway. But there's a really interesting quote in the article.

"For (Gibson) to be associated with this movie is cause for concern," Rafael Medoff, director of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies in Melrose Park, Pennsylvnaia, told the Times. "He needs to come clean that he repudiates Holocaust denial."

Um...maybe I missed something. But Mel Gibson is making a mini-series about the Holocaust. It's non-fiction and from the perspective of a Jewish woman. Call me crazy but what else would he need to do to "repudiate Holcaust denail?" It's going to be a tad bit difficult to make a movie about the Holocaust without clearly acknowledging the fact that it happened.

But this is what happens when people decide that they can get further out of being offended by everything and by making themselves the victims. Every detail so far indicates that the movie will virtually have to paint the Jewish population as the victims of an awful evil. The movie would not work without a graphic presentation of the Holocaust as an evil and horrifying act against humanity. But still, we're going to have Jewish leaders crying foul before they even have the chance to judge the work based on its merits. But hey, who needs facts when we've got emotions to manipulate and victims to keep victimized?