Reply #66: Let's get something clear, here

[SomewhereOutThere424]

The holocaust was terrible. Regardless what happened, how it happened, and to who, it should be respected. However, let's get another fact straight. Atrocities have existed since mankind has conceived the means to commit them. The united states is guilty of mass murdering 5000 civilians in the war on panama after they surrendered. Animal torturers make the holocaust, on scale and in torment, look like spit in the bucket. In past civilizations, look at what rome did to most of its prisoners? Vlad the impaler, how did he get his name? Just because it isn't widely blown up doesn't make it less of an atrocity, and instead of letting one or two disasters rule our life, we should keep strong to make it less out to be 'one country is HORRIBLE' than to admit every country does a wrong, to humans, plants, animals, and that it's not more right when it's done to a lesser scale, or to the underprivelaged. It wasn't right what america did to the slaves, the many that died on their boat trips to the US in those times, the way they were killed mercilessly when a master disfavored them.

There is no greater arrogance than to bitch about one atrocity without bitching about them all. Instead of whining about the holocaust we should expose EVERY nation, every time periods evils and damnit LEARN from them. It's NOT okay to recommit the holocaust to an animal, it's not okay to turn the other way when your own country does it, and hell, it's not okay to act like you were there when you weren't, then tell somebody they have less of a right to talk about their own disasters, their own concerns, and their own morals, because of something you weren't even effected by.

Everyone pretends they're fighting the good fight by berating people who say things like 'holocaust myth'. I don't think it was a myth, but it's absolutely no different than when we call other atrocities a myth, or act like they don't exist. So long as people are capable of ignoring torment, terror, and things like that, in ANY scale, history will repeat itself. For everyone who freaks out that someone calls the holocaust a myth -- how many times have you acknowledged the bloody history of your own country, your birthplace countries overseas, or historical places you may be related to? Stopping the bleeding can only happen when people admit that kind of thing, in any time, to any scale, to any individual, is wrong. You don't get extra browny points by making a stink over the holocaust and then not giving a crap when you hear about this or that.

It's easy to take a post like mine and disregard it as some lunatic saying it. As some hypocrite saying it. As some idealist or some extremist saying it. But does that make it any more right to deny the things we can make better every day, but do not? The way within our own country satan worshipping animal sacrificing cults still flourish, how human trafficking still flourishes, how homelessness still flourishes? From every single person who is tortured or killed in those ways, for every animal killed by sick fucks who just don't get it...it IS comparable to the holocaust. Yet...many DUers will look at this post and scoff. How could you truly claim to care about the holocaust if you don't care about the disasters RIGHT there in front of your face every day? Think about it.