Holocaust Remembrance Day
- Thread starter Mr.Spock
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Rwanda.
Darfur.
To name two.
Pol Pot in Cambodia.
Idi Amin Dada in Uganda.
The Japanese in China during WWII.
Stalin in the Soviet Union.
Idi Amin Dada in Uganda.
The Japanese in China during WWII.
Stalin in the Soviet Union.
During the horrors of Rwanda one person from there said "the world says 'never again', so it should act on these words, not just say them". But of course nobody did (except Romeo Delaire). Nobody cares really. Not enough to do something about it. But slogans are fun to chant. They make us feel good about ourselves.
Mankind acts very predictably. It's reassuring in some way.
In a million years we'll all be gone so I don't care too much. In the meantime Jews (and Rwandans and Armenians and others) grieve for their dead and know full well that next time - and there will be a next time - there won't be help, just like all the previous times.
Mankind acts very predictably. It's reassuring in some way.
In a million years we'll all be gone so I don't care too much. In the meantime Jews (and Rwandans and Armenians and others) grieve for their dead and know full well that next time - and there will be a next time - there won't be help, just like all the previous times.
At least we know how it was done, what signs to look for when a country moves towards fascism. We learned alot about warfare and intelligence techniques, the psychology used to control people.
I dream of the day of the final holocaust, at which point there will be no humans left to do another genocide.
That makes no sense, someone would be left who did the killing.
Leonard Nimoy, the guy who played Spock, is Jewish. And the hand wave he does, he took it from a Jewish ceremony, according to Nimoy himself.
Bullcrap. Human nature is human nature. It will happen again. I hope this al-Qaeda ideology can be defeated before it affects more and more Muslims, especially those who live in the West. We've seen what so-called polite Europeans were capable of. If the West is antagonized enough, there won't even be a need for propaganda to turn them into bloodthirsty murderers once again.spidergoat said:
In no way do I want to diminish the Holocaust tragedy, it was a horrific crime the Nazis committed.
But your prediction (of forgetting a crime on such a massive scale) already has happened for decades.
During the 20th century, tens of millions of innocent civilians were torchered and killed under Communist governments (NOT including war deaths). Left-wing historians and Hollywood say next to nothing about it because they sympathize with this larger genocide.
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/COUBLA.html
Whenever this topic of the Communist genocide is brought up in the presence of radical leftists, they act like neo-Nazis do when the Holocaust is mentioned; they dent it, they ignore it, they change the subject, they try to downplay it, or they try turning the tables.
I wonder if the victims of Communism (perhaps as many as 100,000,000) will ever get a day of rememberance ?
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Naturally. Radical leftists are Communists. But, there are very few of those left. Modern liberalism represents a mainstream viewpoint.
what about the non jewish victims shouldn't they be remembered too?
Jews conveniently forget them, at least 5 million of the 11 million killed in the concentration camps were not jewish.
Challenger78
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I think some element of this day, is to divert focus from other issues. Like the other people being killed across the world.
of course
sure sounds like you care for the other 6 million jews who did die
a day dedicated to a mass murder is used to divert attention from other mass murders in the world?
im sure when the day was conceived 60 years ago that was the first thought.
sure sounds like you care for the other 6 million jews who did die
Sure I do some of them were relatives.
i can name a few relatives of mine i wish were goners.