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?

Comments

[chibicharibdys.livejournal.com]

Whenever I stop to think about WWII - really think - it totally blows my mind. I cannot fathom it.

There seems to be something quite nasty buried deep in human nature.

[dinogrrl.livejournal.com]

What blows my mind is when I think of it and I know there are people out there who don't believe it ever happened, or who say 'genocide' should not be applied to it.

[chibicharibdys.livejournal.com]

I am always amazed at the ability of people to deny truth when it is staring them in the face...

[dinogrrl.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure aliens are pretty sick of having everything blamed on them.

[principessar.livejournal.com]

My school here in France has a sort of reputation for, in the past, supporting Holocaust denial. Pretty much everyone agrees that it is over now -- that the people propogating such ideas have been found out and fired from their positions (and jailed because in France there are things you aren't allowed to say -- they have mostly free speech but not entirely, and one thing you can't say is to claim that the Holocaust didn't happen.)

Part of the reason I chose to study here is to see what there was, to see if any skeletons would pop out of the closet, you know. So far I've learned that it is true, there were scandals about this, but some people say the press made it seem like a bigger deal -- that maybe there was one or two psychos on in the fac but that the press made it seem like everyone supported them. I don't know what is true about that, though. I hope to find out.

I just don't know how anyone could not believe it happened. After all the trials and testimony and witnesses and survivors, not to mention the piles of bodies and the PHOTOGRAPHS -- so many photographs -- I can't believe we have these scandals about denial of the Holocaust because it is so very obvious that it happened 0.0