Last week revcom.us posted a piece titled “What Next from the Florida Board of Education? How Tattooists at Auschwitz Learned Useful Skills for After the War?!?” about the outrageous new school standards approved by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis that claims that skills learned by slaves in the U.S. allowed them to supposedly prosper later—in other words, “slavery had benefits.” And we posed how by that twisted logic, Ron DeFascist and his ilk would consider the “skills” learned by some Jews imprisoned in the Nazi concentration camps during World War 2—like tattooing identification numbers on other prisoners—as a “benefit,” instead of being part of the horrific degradation of those camps. At the time we wrote that, it did not occur to us that these American fascists would actually come right out and say something as totally outrageous as that.
But it turns out they actually did! Check out this TikTok from writer, musician and geophysicist Stuart Rojstaczer, “There Were No Silver Linings From The Holocaust Or From Slavery,” and listen to a clip from Fox “News” where they’re talking about the “benefits” for Jews who were in concentration camps… and then listen to a sharp refutation of this fascist bullshit.