RE: How will the holocaust be remembered after the last survivor dies?
June 19, 2013 at 10:06 am
(This post was last modified: June 19, 2013 at 10:06 am by littleendian.)
(June 19, 2013 at 9:37 am)The Germans are coming Wrote: Are you seriously stating that the systematic murder of 12 million people of a certain ethnic heritage is comparable to breeding animals for food?!Phrases like "Let's make sure that'll never happen again" are nothing but idle talk.
There are horrors happening today, here, as we speak, right under our noses, and I won't remain silent when the shoah is abused as a distractor from the carnages of today, the ones that we share a responsibility for and the ones we can actually do something about.
We can ensure that we will not commit crimes like this ever again only by increasing our compassion, not by reinforcing a utilitarian view on the lifes of others, as is done in todays meat industry. If you can't see frightening parallels between the concentration camps of Nazi Germany and todays CAFOs and slaughter houses, then I say again: Open your eyes.
"Men see clearly enough the barbarity of all ages — except their own!" — Ernest Crosby.
