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Old 04-07-2014, 12:31 PM
 
Location: Cushing OK
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Only 70 years later and the whole world wants to deny it ever happened
General Eisenhower was right they did try to deny it ever happened
Trust me the monsters that did this are still among us
First step to this happening again is disarming the public
Pol Pot, in an attempt to create a different society, subjected his own people in Cambodia to something which resembled the camps far more than anything but Bosnia. The monsters who are willing to subugate other people into animals will always be amonst us. The only thing which stops them is the disgust of others willing to stop it. Pol Pot was taken down by North Vietnam which found him repugnant.

We DO have to remember, and read the stories and be reminded how easy it is for these cold monsters to sneek into a society. Once upon a time, genocide was how you ended wars, but we have labeled it unacceptable. If we want to keep it that way we deal with the reality of the Nazi and other smaller regiums which didn't get the memo. Yes, we as a species are perfectly cabable of being monsters and sitting down to a civilized dinner with the family that evening. We should never forget that or it becomes our future.
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Old 04-07-2014, 10:43 PM
 
Location: The New England part of Ohio
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I am not diminishing any other racial mass murders. They are all horrible beyond thought.

However, as an American the two mass deportation, killings, torture, slave labor, starvations and family separations of races of people that effect me the most are The Holocaust (the destruction of the European Jewry) and the American and European importation of people from Africa for the purpose of enslavement, abuse, and degradation.

The derides of American - European slavery affects our society to this day.

Since I am originally from New York, I've met people who survived the Holocaust. That had a huge impact upon me. Each had been physically maimed to varying degrees.
Strangely, none were bitter or angry.

I've also met a man who was the grandson of an enslaved person. He was a friend of my father.An interesting man with many interesting and horrific tales to tell. Not only about his families enslavement, but about the uneasy and terrifying years following "emancipation".

He had a thriving business in NY. He was full of gratitude and joy.

Those two "holocausts" effected me the most. Which is not to trivialize any other breaches of humanity that have occurred on this earth.

We need to stop having a competition each week about what hideous event was worse than the other, or attempt to force others to agree that a certain event was worse.

What a morbid competition.
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