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Originally Posted by VikingMan
One of the other posters' hamster wheel of a brain did spit out one gem "history repeats itself". I fully agree and that is why we need to be aware of ALL mass murderers and totalitarian regimes not just Hitler.
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the point is, these atrocities DO keep continuing, in part because we choose not to learn from the horrors of the past. There are huge parallels between the Holocaust and the Rwandan massacre, in that both were fomented by leaders who promoted a racist ideology and scapegoated the targeted group as the source of all social and economic problems. Once you construct and dehumanize the 'other', genocide becomes much easier for so called 'good folks' to participate in. History is filled with these lessons and we choose to ignore them.
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Originally Posted by VikingMan
The truth is most people and most of you cowardly fucks posting in this thread would have been raising your arms and shouting Sieg Heil had you been living in Germany in the 1930's
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we're making progress here, so you do concede that the Holocaust in fact took place?
I strongly believe in the right of all people to life, freedom and self determination, the very things that were denied to Jews, Roma and gay people during the systemic campaign of slaughter that we call the Holocaust. I think I made that fairly clear in my prior post. The fact that other leaders and regimes have committed atrocities does not negate or cancel out what occurred during World War Two.
As to what I would have done during the war, I'll never know, obviously, but I would like to think that I would have resisted rather than collaborated. We always choose how we behave, no one is a mindless sheep unless they choose to be. Fact is, many groups and individuals resisted the Nazis.
Canada's record wasn't quite so illustrious though, when discussing the number of Jews Canada would shelter the reply was famously 'none is too many'. The nation of my birth turned away refugees seeking shelter from the horrors of the Nazis, of the 907 refugees
turned away on one ship alone, 254 later died in concentration camps. Canada has continued that pattern in later years with an 'immigration crackdown' on Roma refugees seeking asylum. So yes, as a Canadian I am implicated.
I don't understand the logic of why atrocities committed before and after the Holocaust somehow negate the Holocaust. Back to your regularly scheduled programming indeed, I feel like I stumbled into Stormfront in this thread.