Grizzly, all Im saying is that if the letters SS in an online handle upset J_A_B enough to post a whinge on this board about it, life must really SUCK for him, I cant begin to imagine how much the important things in life must upset him.
I realise that war brings out the very best in men, but it's undeniable that it allso brings out the worste ( I like that word), and that no nation/side is completely innocent of horrific acts.
The passage of time does, in my opinion, reduce the immediate importance or relevance of things, are you as rabidly anti-American as you are anti Nazi?, does the word Columbus upset you? after all, the US of A was created on stolen ground, and it's native inhabitants paid in blood; women, children....the lot.
I'll take a blind stab in the dark here ( and I may well be wrong)and say it doesnt, and you arent, why? well toejam, that was a couple of hundred years ago, it's not like you personally raped any Sioux ,Cherokee , Inca or Mayan, nor stole their land.
60 years, 200 years, 10 000 years, whats the diff? Are all Americans, or anybody displaying the Star and Bar, or the Stars and Stripes genocidal thieves?
My country was founded pretty much the same way, European settlers stole the land off the natives and called it their own, if they disagreed, they got shot..... does this mean I should despise the British and be ashamed of my flag? of course it doesnt.
Im not a Nazi apologist, or a Hitler wannabe as you suggest, I just dont buy into the 'We won WWII, so we must be all that is pure" crap....mankind sucks, we do some really horrid stuff to one another, and no race is any more or less guilty than any other.
Why is the Jewish peoples' suffering during WWII of any more importance than that of the native Americans, the Australian Aboriginals, the New Zealand Maori, or countless other races/cultures throughout history? And why are the Nazis more villified than the Spaniards, the Dutch, the French or the British colonists?
Passage of time maybe?
PS, I believe the twin lightning strike symbol of the SS dates back to Norse mythology and runic writing, the Schutzstaffel just borrowed it because it looks good in silver over a black uniform, and happens to be an abreviation of their unit name.
PPS... I have seen someone in the AH main arena flying under the handle SPQR, think of the attrocities that symbolises, yet does it offend anyone? reason....passage of time and the fact that its merely a couple of letters.
As we say down here, same toejam, differant bucket.
War doesnt decide who is right, just who is left
Loooooong prety much idiotic thread, but enlightening none the less.
