(August 19, 2017 at 3:25 pm)LastPoet Wrote:(August 19, 2017 at 3:15 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: Snowflake: someone who whines when statues of seditious traitors who fought for the institutions of slavery are finally taken down.
I am of the opinion of not erasing memories from fascist dumbfucks to preserve them. I don't want to preserve them as idols, just as a reminder of what they did before, lest we forget.
Example: Should we level down Auchwitz because of the atrocities commited there or shall we keep it to remind future generations?
Jews would disagree. They hate Hitler as much as you and I do. The more generations that pass over time, the more distance society gets from those horrible events. The problem with not keeping a reminder of what not to do in museums and history books, is that over time humans forget. Once the abused can become the abuser.
Jews would tell you the Ann Frank house and the DC Holocaust Museum are good things and they keep them as warnings not to repeat history.
If we totally erased the entire 400 year history of black slavery in America, and erased all records of the Civil War both North and South, what is to prevent a society, ANYWHERE ELSE in the world from doing the same say in 1,000 years.
I don't believe in hiding the dark side of our species. Not any side. Not when whites do it to blacks, not when Germans did it to Jews.
You know the old saying, "Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat it."
