re: #129 iceweasel

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Yep. And it creeps me out. Not to go all Godwin here, but something I only learned later in life was that one of the strategies the Nazis employed early on was forbidding scholars (and doctors) to cite any works in their research that required them to rely on the research of Jews.
That should have sent alarm bells ringing loudly through academia and research. Scholars had to go through all sorts of convolutions in order to only cite ‘Aryan’ works, even to the extent of distorting their papers and footnoting some obscure ‘thinker’ from centuries ago— to avoid giving the credit for some discovery or idea to someone on the ‘unapproved’ list.
Racial Hygiene: Medicine Under the Nazis
IIRC this started long before some of the more obvious and hardcore laws oppressing the Jews.

Night, gus!

Just to play devil’s advocate for a minute….While I don’t think that that sort of thinking is OK by any means…. There is a very large difference between private citizens thinking that way and the State thinking that way.
It’s one thing if you have a group of people bending over backwards to try not to acknowledge the accomplishments of , and this is creepy, but not nearly as creepy as having a government decree that scholars MUST not acknowledge or cite the accomplishments of
(Realizing how much trouble I’m having typing and REALLY hoping this makes some small amount of sense)