The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #77802   Message #1393727
Posted By: M.Ted
30-Jan-05 - 07:32 PM
Thread Name: Auschwitz and other mass murder
Subject: RE: Auschwitz and other mass murder
The Holocaust is a somethng that all of us must acknowledge, and come to terms with-- a little warning light goes off when I hear expressions like "I don't see why we have to" or "there is too much emphasis placed", or, in this case, "others died in other terrible circumstances"--because, though they don't overtly deny, they are attempts to diminish, minimize, and ultimately, avoid dealing with it, and I am compelled to ask myself why someone would have the need to do that--

I am especially alarmed when I read, "Unless you have the tattoo, I suggest you shut up about the Holocaust experience, because you never experienced it"--it is a particularly aggressive effort to suppress the Holocaust, and even has a bit of implied threat built into it--