From time to time we get questionable emails in our inbox. Today we begin a new program to deal with them. It’s time for this week’s episode of THE LONE TRUTHER.
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Announcer: COME WITH US NOW TO THOSE THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR
cue the music: tatatump, tatatump, tatatumptump tump
Announcer: IN A CLOUD OF DUST AND A HEARTY “HI-HO SILVER,” THE LONE TRUTHER RIDES AGAIN!
Camera pans in on our hero and his trusty side-kick Tanto sitting around the campfire in the wilderness. Crickets chirp and coyotes howl in the background. . .
LT: Well, Tanto. We’ll have to check this out. Somebody is claiming that the University of Kentucky removed a class about the Holocaust from its curriculum for fear of offending Muslims. You ride into town, get beat up and then come back and tell me if anyone is getting this email.
T: Kemo Sabe, why do I always have to get beat up?
LT: Because it’s in the script every week.
T: Ugh. I think it is time for the writers to take a hike. A nice long hike.
Tanto leaves. The LONE TRUTHER pours himself another cup of coffee and wanders off into the desert to look at the stars. Sometime later TANTO returns. . . .
LT: Well, Tanto. Only one black eye this week. What did you find out?
T: Kemo Sabe, an email is floating around alleging that the Holocaust has been removed from the curriculum at the University of Kentucky. Here is a copy.
The LONE TRUTHER reads. . . .
IN MEMORIAM — This week the University of Kentucky removed The Holocaust from its school curriculum because it “offended” the Muslim population which claims it never occurred. This is a frightening portent of the fear that is gripping the world and how easily each country is giving into it. It is now more than 60 years since the Second World War in Europe ended. This e-mail is being sent as a memorial chain, in memory of the six million Jews, 20 million Russians, 10 million Christians and 1,900 Catholic priests who were murdered, massacred, raped, burned, starved and humiliated with the German and Russian peoples looking the other way! Now more than ever, with Iran among others claiming the Holocaust to be “a myth,” it is imperative to make sure the world never forgets. This e-mail is intended to reach 40 million people worldwide! Join us and be a link in the memorial chain.
LT: Well, Tanto. This looks suspicious. Look at this: “German and Russian peoples looking the other way! ” That would have been a little difficult given how rapidly they were killing one another. And why would a Muslim be offended by teaching about the Holocaust? Muslims didn’t murder the Jews; the Nazis did that. Muslims didn’t invade Russia nor did they rape and kill Germans. Stalin murdered Russians no matter what their religious beliefs. The writer of the email is anonymous. And I don’t like those exclamation points either. We’d better check this out.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, the citizenry waits with baited breath. Pretty soon the LONE TRUTHER AND TANTO ride into the ranch yard in a cloud of dust.
Innocent Citizen No. 1 – Good thing they don’t have a helicopter. We wouldn’t have any topsoil left.
LT: Innocent citizens, lend me your ears! There is NO truth in the email. It is all false! Made up! You can return safely to your homes now. Here is what TANTO and I found out:
1.) The University of Kentucky was compelled by this email to issue a press release denying it which you can read here:
2. ) The story originated in the United Kingdom which has the same initials as the University of Kentucky.
But it wasn’t true even about the UK. Read here.
The sun begins to set in the West. . .
Innocent citizen number 2: Where else would it set?
Cue the music . . . .tatatump, tatatump, tatatumptump tump. . . .
THE LONE TRUTHER and his trusty side-kick TANTO ride off into the sunset . . .We hear the plaintive call, “Hi-Ho Silver” as they ride off.
Innocent Citizen No. 1: Who was that masked man? I didn’t even get a chance to thank him.
Innocent Citizen No. 2: Why, that was the LONE TRUTHER!
The end.
Tags: , Holocaust studies, The Lone Truther, University of Kentucky
