When War Is Justified

[bloodyrosemccoy]

Mozart Day
Thomas Crapper Day
Anniversary - Auschwitz Liberated
Day of Remembrance for Victims of Nazism (Germany)
Holocaust Memorial Day (UK)

 

Genocide is bad, kids. Remember that.

The fact that we have to have days to remind people of this says something rather sad about people, doesn't it?

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[du-futur-siecle.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the warm welcome home! :) I hope to keep up with LJ more often now that I have a more flexible schedule.I'm hoping that the work-from-home situation lasts. It's really nice to have such a flexible schedule and to be putting my "would-you-like-fries-with that" English major to really good, interesting use! That said, it's harrowing to research and compile a calendar of Bushisms. You honestly don't know whether to laugh or cry.

It's sad that we need reminding that fascism and genocide exist, and even sadder that there are conspiracy theorists who try to convince people that catastrophes like the Holocaust never happened. My father is Jewish, as is the rest of his family, and it's humbling to know that I have relatives in my family tree who were murdered so heinously.

In a world where privacy is whittled away one Patriot Act at a time and people's cell phones are practically fused to their ears, we're not so far away from a 1984-esque, totalitarian society as we think we are.

In lighter news, let us pause and remember the dearly departed Thomas Crapper...and Mozart, too.