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Originally Posted by AssBlaster
So, in your opinion, since I'm of German decent, should I be more concerned that my people were "winning" (I'm not...) and elated, as opposed to sad that people were killed needlessly?
I mean, my people were busy conquering nations and partying down...
Who cares about the jews, right?
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I'm not too sure whether you're being discengenuous for the purposes of irony... but whatever... being of German decent is a different context, when talking about the holocaust, to talking from the point of view of someone who witnessed, or has in their cultural history, 67% of their race destroyed (ok, exaggeration, 67% of European Jewry). Everyone has blood on their hands to some extent (cf Hannah Arendt's 'Eichmann and the Holocaust). But I dislike this attempt to put the emphasis on the Jews to redress the balance of the holocaust. It is far and away from their concern to stand up and say, "Actually, it wasn't just us, there were these other guys killed too", although in modern Germany it is the Jews who are doing the most to emphasise the other people who were killed, and the Isreali people are likewise, in recent years, doing likewise.
Hmm. I'll write more later, I'm tired and need an orange juice.