Thursday, May 31, 2012

Labels and the Limits of Language

In the following 11-minute video, Elie Wiesel talks about the danger of labels, the limits of language, and his experience of the Holocaust.
After watching the video, reflect on the ways that language empowers thought (how does the word "the Holocaust" shape our understanding of World War II. for example?) and the way that it creates distance between people (by referring to them as abstractions).

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