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The_Conservative
Joined: 15 Mar 2007
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| Now they've passed a resolution condeming the Turkish genocide against the Armenians...during the First World War. |
Sorry, but that horse left the barn some time ago.
The Nazi holocaust has been memorialized all over the place for decades, including at a government-funded museum in Washington DC. I don't know if there have been any official condemnations from Congress, but that's really beside the point, given the amount of state-sponsored attention that has been paid to the holocaust.
Now granted, it was more politically feasible to memorialize the Nazi atrocities, because postwar Germany was pretty much browbeaten in that regard, and certainly wasn't in a position to launch anything that would appear to be a defense of Hitler's record. Nevertheless, if a government is going to issue official condemnations of one country's atrocities, it becomes kind of difficult to say that they shouldn't do the same thing for others.
Personally, I'm at the point where I think all state-sponsored recognition of other countries' histroical wrongdoings should be done away with, including the holocaust. Countries should memorialize(and compensate) their own victims, not anyone else's. |
One could argue that the Allied nations were in part responsible for so many deaths during the Holocaust, because they accepted so few Jews as refugees. To say nothing of earlier times when all throughout Europe Jews were treated as second class citizens, so the groundwork had already been laid.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_refugees |
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Alyallen
Joined: 29 Mar 2004
Location: The 4th Greatest Place on Earth = Jeonju!!!
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| Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 10:59 pm Post subject: |
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| This is one of those things that makes the government seem like it's not really part of the country. There's two wars going on, people are losing their houses all over the country from the subprime mortgage problem, millions of people don't have healthcare, and the government is taking the time to condemn a genocide that happened during World War I. No one who's not either in government or part of an activist group would think, "It's about time we condemned the Turks for slaughtering the Armenians 90 years ago." |
Sad but so true.... |
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On the other hand
Joined: 19 Apr 2003
Location: I walk along the avenue
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| Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 7:07 am Post subject: |
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| One could argue that the Allied nations were in part responsible for so many deaths during the Holocaust, because they accepted so few Jews as refugees. |
You could argue that. Gotta say though, I don't usually hear that touted as the reason for holocaust memorialization in the US, Great Britain, Canada, etc.
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To say nothing of earlier times when all throughout Europe Jews were treated as second class citizens, so the groundwork had already been laid.
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How does that relate to holocaust memorialization in the USA, a country which made no significant contributions to the development of European anti-semitism? |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 1:47 pm Post subject: |
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| You could argue that. |
However, one could also argue that the horrors of the Holocaust played a major role in bringing to consciousness the evils of racism/bigotry in the most graphic way possible. A physical memorial helps ensure that the lesson won't be forgotten. |
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