I've been reading a lot of disturbing news recently in regards to the Shoah (Holocaust) where European nations are passing laws, or opening museums that minimizes the acts of their governments and peoples.
In Poland and Hungary, most recently. This is revisionist history of the worst kind. People need to see that once, in the past, anyone considered undesirable in their society was marched to death camps.
They need to see the ugly truth of their nation's past and present.
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@freemo For me, as one of those undesirable peoples, it is infuriating.
At the same time, it is human nature to distance oneself from those things painful in one's past. I understand it.
But it is a slap in the face to everyone who got marched into those camps- Jews, Romani, Political Opponents, Homosexuals- Thirteen Million human beings were systematically murdered in what is quite possible the worst modern example of genocide and mass-murder.
People need to see this. They need to understand that their ancestors were willing participants in these sorts of things.
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@Surasanji I agree. I often think the reason europe seemed to learn/grow from WWII is because you remember the ugly history.
America does a good job of forgetting our massacres (ie native americans), It does us an injustice as it is a lost opportunity to grow as a people.
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@freemo All nations have made terrible decisions that ended with the destruction of human life, culture, and freedom. None of us are wholly innocent in supporting institutions that at one time did terrible things to someone.
The US with Native Americans and the slave trade, Europe with it's history of antisemitism, colonialism, and imperialism. Asian nations have their dark pasts, too.
Israel is certainly not wholly innocent in how it treats certain people within our society- but it is on the lips of the people, and people are aware of it.
People need to know- and internalize- that it wasn't so long ago that their ancestors did terrible things. That doesn't mean that they themselves are guilty for the decisions of the past- but they are responsible to *remember*.
@Surasanji I couldnt agree more, very sad to hear about.