OMAHA, Neb. — The Trump Administration’s trade battle with China has gone too far and will do serious damage to the U.S. economy the longer tariffs remain in place, Union Pacific CEO Lance Fritz says. About 40% of UP’s traffic orig…
With that quasi- Kristallnacht going on in Hong Kong quite honestly I really don’t care if imports from China come to a screeching halt.
I mean, I’d hate to see a peoples attempt to keep what freedoms they have quashed, and then to think I paid for it.
Look for business elsewhere Mr. Fritz. If the regionals and shortlines can find it so can you.
Screw Wall Street.
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I doubt if you intended to, but your equating the HK situation with Kristallnacht is offensive to Jewish folks and anyone opposing racist behavior. The HK situation is complex and bears little resemblance to how the dynamics were initially. It’s more like Kent State, if demonstrations there had gone on and escalated for months.
Only if the National Guard had continued on killing people for months.
Well said.
I used Kristallnacht to get people’s attention. Obviously it worked. I also think it’s germaine to any situation where authorities perpetrate an injustice on those with very little capability to fight back.
I doubt anyone Jewish will be offended. If anything they might just empathise.
I’m so angered over this I can hardly type. You see, I know someone in Hong Kong. So do some others in the Forum family.
Yes some of us certainly do have a concern, and give our support to our Forum Member who is fighting the good fight. In a way they are fighting for all us all against tyranny. It is shameful that some corporations sell out to the almighty buck and ironically in the process are they themselves controlled by this tyranny.
Great things have small beginnings.
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With that quasi- Kristallnacht going on in Hong Kong quite honestly I really don’t care if imports from China come to a screeching halt.
I mean, I’d hate to see a peoples attempt to keep what freedoms they have quashed, and then to think I paid for it.
Look for business elsewhere Mr. Fritz. If the regionals and shortlines can find it so can you.
Screw Wall Street.
I doubt if you intended to, but your equating the HK situation with Kristallnacht is offensive to Jewish folks and anyone opposing racist behavior. The HK situation is complex and bears little resemblance to how the dynamics were initially. It’s more like Kent State, if demonstrations there had gone on and escalated for months.
I used Kristallnacht to get people’s attention. Obviously it worked. I also think it’s germaine to any situation where authorities perpetrate an injustice on those with very little capability to fight back.
I doubt anyone Jewish will be offended. If anything they might just empathise.
I’m so angered over this I can hardly type. You see, I know someone in Hong Kong. So do some others in the Forum family.
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I appreciate your sticking up for me Charlie, to my mind what really trivializes one of the worst nightmares in history, as you so well put it, are inane remarks like, and we’ve all heard 'em…
“Clinton is Hitler!”
“Bush is Hitler!”
“Obama is Hitler!”
“Trump is Hitler!”
To my knowledge none of those men had any plans for taking people who’s gene pool they disapproved of and stuffing them into gas chambers.
Idiotic remarks like the above are what really insults the memory of the Holocaust victims. And that’s all I’m going to say.
This thread is about Mr. Fritz’s whining, after all.
I think the point Charlie was trying to make, is that by equating events of a smaller scope with the holocaust, we run the risk of trivializing the grieving of those for whom it’s become an significant part of their life.
I recall that comedian Jerry Seinfeld received similarly inspired hate male after airing the “Soup Nazi” episode.
Personally I didn’t see anything wrong with your post, but then I’m not the kind of person that goes around seeking opportunities to claim offense.
As far as the subject of this thread goes, it comes as little surprise that someone who makes a good part of their paycheck by expediting non American made items to American markets would be less than enthusiastic about the so called “trade war”. Perhaps that indicates that the plan is working?
Thank you C-O. I appreciate it.
[:^)] Can you explain that a little more in depth? I’m not sure I’m understanding you correctly?
Kristallnacht was just one event. Certainly part of the overall horror that was the Holocaust, but not the Holocaust in and of itself.
So, too, are the happenings in Hong Kong. There are larger issues there, but what’s going on in HK is just a part of it.
And that’s where people are getting lost here - rather like saying one play was the entire football game.
I think the most important point of this article is that Mr. Fritz says his company is experiencing fallout from the trade war. Yet we all were promised by twin inventors of this trade war that such fallout would not happen. Obviously the promise has been broken, and our economy is on a solid downward trajectory. It should have been obvious at the time the people made that promise that they were blowing smoke with their tin foil hat economics.
Perhaps you don’t know the history very well? Kristallnacht, as I said, was the beginning of the Holocaust (Shoah). Thus not just one event but the beginning of the end for six million.
There were many other groups who were impacted by the Holocaust. Slavs, Gypsies, mentally handicapped, gay, etc. Yet, it has been co-opted by only one (although the major one) group.
Add to your list members of the KPD and SPD, the first victim of the 3rd Reich, to be historically accurate. Also to be accurate, the term Holocaust was not appropriated by the Jewish victims. Their term is Shoah. Governments and historians applied the term to the six million Jews who died at the hands of the SS, Gestapo, etc. The dignity of those millions of other victims of the Nazis is not enhanced by misusing the term Holocaust. But your use of the derogatory term “co-opted” is a disgrace.
But it was still one event. It ended. Shoah/Holocaust may have just begun, but that’s not the point.