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The board lacks the power to regulate what music the opera company can
perform: Today's motion, if approved, would result in a letter from the
board to the opera company asking it to lessen its focus on Wagner by
including works by other composers and offering lectures focusing on
Wagner's openly anti-Semitic views.

The arrogance of some Jews is amazing.

This is an interesting thought exercise. The facts against Wagner seem to
be that:

a)He had anti-Semitic views.

b)He did not commit crimes against Jews directly. (Actually, in his favor.)

c)The Holocaust did occur. (This aggravates the situation at a visceral
level because this type of mass murder is a very emotional issue.)

I do know that medical data obtained using unacceptable involuntary medical
experiments during that era have essentially been excluded.

The question of the "exclusion" of the music of someone who as best I know
didn't actually commit crimes is an interesting one. (c) changes all the
rules, due to the horrific magnitude of the crimes.

It is also relevant that Wagner's death predated the Holocaust, so his
remarks originally existed in a context that did not include the Holocaust.
He might not have made the remarks post-1945. So, literally, the original
context for interpreting the severity and appropriateness of the remarks is
gone.

An author with anti-black views might face similar scrutiny ...

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