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Well, after some thinking about this... NAZI thing I have come to realize something that is worrisome in the extreme., The Nazis, in a sick way, have entered the realm of the sacred. When we talk about them and the horrors of the regime, it is like entering a special place, a unique place. We are told, they are the extreme and never happened before or after. Any historian with ANY knowledge of the history of genocides... can quickly tell you that it is NOT that unique. Hell, even that wonderful book (the other sacred) that our Christian Right loves to quote, has a pretty detailed history of A GENOCIDE in the story of the taking of the promised land by the people of Israel, No, Joshua did not tell the people at Jericho to please vacate the city... what his troops did was kill every man, woman, child and animal.
Of course there is the story of Carthage... the Romans went so far as to salt the land.
In modern times we had the other great Genocide of the 20th century... the Armenian Genocide, which in methodology predated the Nazis in some respects.
But we are told... no, this is unique. No it is not. But as long as we are told that we need to be quiet like church mice... and believe that this was so exceptional, we will NOT be able to learn the lessons. One of the lessons is the consolidation of the media...
But there is another lesson... one that many of you will NOT like. I guarantee it.
We are already engaging in the very early DEATH PANELS that the Nazis did with the T-4 program. So what if we are not having a doctor INJECT poison. History never, ever repeats itself fully... but what is going on in AZ has eerie echoes. They ARE death panels, not unlike those established by the state in the 1930s... of course WE in the good ol' US of A were also using Eugenics during that time... and today we are using the same eliminationist language.
So yes, I will say several things that will look crazee to the church mice.
1.- The holocaust had 15 million victims... not just six million Jews. Proportionally the Jews were the largest group of victims, but they were not alone. I say this as a Jewish child of a holocaust survivor with a history degree.
2.- It wasn't that fucking unique. Stop treating it as a sacred (in a sick way) space.
3.- You want to learn lessons... well fucking learn them...
4.- Never again right at the moment is quite empty, why? We refuse to learn them lessons, because we treat it the way we do.
I know this will fall on a few deaf ears... but Congressman Cohen was RIGHT ON FUCKING POINT, and the firing of Keith last night was ANOTHER marker towards that dark night.
Oh and it goes without saying... good night and good luck will now take on a whole new meaning,
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