Originally posted by LEADPIG
Moot what if you were Jewish and i told you. "The Holocaust, get over it that was 55 years ago, so your Grandmother was gased in a chamber, big deal move on".
I'd agree. Some of my family that I was born just too late to know went through camps. One of my grandfathers served in both world wars.
I haven't had the KKK burn family members, or any houses of theirs, but I did have giant swastikas painted on the side of a house I lived in, I did go to a school deep in french countryside where pretty much 2/3's of the people were blatantly of the opinion that brownies and anyone not french were sub-human. I lived through the routine of going to school everyday, knowing the efforts I made would most likely not be recognized, etc.
I had my father be denied entry to shops and restaurants... heck I could go on.
I could even go as far as saying my ancesters were eradicated (indians), or enslaved (africans), just as much as I could say that this very day I'm persecuted for things I haven't done, e.g. representing the french ("the man") here on this ex-slavery island, by merely speaking formal french instead of the local dialect.
Not for me to say
That's bunk. Who's for it to say, then? Can I just keep grieving about some past occurence that is cold hard, immutable history, and insist that others buy into it too? And call it unfair if they don't? You may not say it in too rough a way, you might have to sugar coat it, but it will always boil down to the same thing.
**** happens. Get over it.. Adapt or die.
There's nothing arrogant about that, it's the truth. If someone's denying it and insists on wallowing in their own pity, then they're doing themselves a disservice.
it's not your problem, nor should people try to make it your problem.
Exactly. So when you've got (almost) a whole culture grounded on and furthering the idea that it should be others' problem, and it's commercialized and taken as gospel, it's hard not to see it for the big bloated bag of acne that it is, ready to burst with BS at the slightest poke of reason.
Life is as good as you make it.
edit- in fact, about half-way through my visit to a holocaust museum (back in early high school, complete with nazi torture tools, etc), I had a strong aversion to what I saw but "big deal move on" was pretty much what I concluded, especialy after some classmates went all frothy about those ****in nazis. WTF was the sense in that? Turn the same way as the racists were? That's a perpetual cycle.
