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A 3 page overview of the contentions presented by Porpora that the public opinion surrounding U.S. intervention in Central America was similar to the public reaction to the Jewish Holocaust as it was perpetuated by the German Nazis, that general apathy allows such Holocaust-like events to occur. This paper contends that while Porpora is correct in his contention that the U.S. has been at least indirectly involved in many atrocities in Central America, to compare the events which have unfolded there to the Jewish Holocaust of World War II is an overt distortion of the facts and circumstances.
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File: AM2_PPholoCA.rtf
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In "How Holocausts Happen: The United States in Central America" author Douglas Porpora critically analyzes U.S. intervention in Central
America. Porpora emphasizes the genocidal policies associated with Nicaraguan, Guatemalan, and El Salvadorian regimes and the public opinion surrounding such policies. Looking to the work of past scholars,
specifically Hannah Arendts thesis on the banality of evil, Porpora formulates his unique concept of the "Holocaust-like event" and suggests that, while we typically like to blame such atrocities on
demented regimes such as the Nazis, all societies can be capable of a "Holocaust". Porpora also makes the astounding suggestion that the public opinion surrounding U.S. intervention in Central
America was similar to the public reaction to the Jewish Holocaust as it was perpetuated by the German Nazis, that general apathy allows such Holocaust-like events to occur. Accepting
Porporas contention would necessitate accepting the view taken by Porpora that the American public is not only apathetic but uninformed and anti-intellectual. While Porpora is correct in his contention
that the U.S. has been at least indirectly involved in many atrocities in Central America, to compare the events which have unfolded there to the Jewish Holocaust of World War
II is an overt distortion of the facts and circumstances. Even given his misguided comparison of the circumstances in Central America with the
Jewish Holocaust, Porpora does make many interesting contentions and back these contentions up with fact. Indeed, the U.S. government has played a continual role in the war against the
economically disadvantaged in Central America. Affluent Americans, along with the United States government itself, have gathered an array of weapons which are designed to further those who are already
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