I read this article today by this guy who writes for the AP out of the Miami Herald. The entire article he's crying in his panties about how people are going to forget the horror of "the" holocaust. Which is a horrible farce in and of itself because there have been numerous holocausts and the Jewish one was by FAR not the most atrocious of them. It's just the most highly publicized.
The author, lets call him Leonard Pitts Jr (because that is his name), usually writes some pretty good articles. But when he drops a bomb they are made of hydrogen. The article goes on and on about how horrible it is that a few people are trivializing what happen in the Nazi Death camps and people need to get back in touch with the fact that these horrible things happened. You know what? Fuck 'em.
DO care about the people of Rwanda? I don't hear anybody offering to put up a museum about what happened in 1994 in DC? Why not? See the problem is that no one has any idea what the word holocaust means, or that the Jewish one was just one of many. In fact not long after WWII Stalin killed twice as many of his own people than Hitler ever did. So where is the memorial to the Russian holocaust? "One of the most horrific happenings of the century," BLAH BLAH BLAH. Get over it already. The only reason we keep being reminded of it is because there are a plethora of Jewish film makers out there, which is fine, get in touch with your roots and all that, but the rest of the country needs to learn not to rely on MOVIES for it's education. What about Western SUDAN?! READ A FRIGGIN BOOK!
The point is that millions more people die everyday in places all over the world from Man's Evil to Man, and no-one bats an eyelash just because there isn't some ass muncher writing an editorial about it in the local newspaper. You know what I want to see? A Jewish holocaust organization devoted to educating people about the other holocausts going on in the world RIGHT now and creating a way for people to involve themselves in finding peaceful solutions. Shalom my left butt cheek.
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