Saturday, February 14, 2009
It Sucks For Everyone
You know we mainly feel sorry for the Jewish people because of the genocide in WWII but you know there have been people who have had it much worse. Due to the effects of the Great Famine in Ireland roughly 4-6 Million people either died or left Ireland. The Irish population at the time was about or nine million so they lost about half of their population. And everyone hated the Irish man. At some points in history it was worse to be Irish than Black. Especially in England. They've fucked with the Irish for centuries man. Or what about the Indians. Sure the Jews lost a lot of people but they got a country out of it. The Indians were decimated and had their country, and culture taken from them. They were literally invaded and conquered. The Brits tried to get rid of the Gaelic(Irish) culture but we managed to keep hold of it probably because the Brits didn't care about the rural areas of Ireland where most of the stories came from too much. Also if you want to think of something more recent there's the Rwandan Genocide. Roughly one million people were killed but these people weren't gassed or shot. No these people were hacked to death by Machetes. Lovely. Anyways I guess I'm just saying that there are plenty of people who have had it rough.
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I'm not really sure it's specifically the Jews people feel bad for, but more the circumstances under which the whole thing happened that appalls people. You're right that people everywhere have suffered (and continue to suffer, might I add) in somewhat similar circumstances, but it was the grandness, the calculated and systematic process and the gradual build of the events in the Holocaust that sets this apart from any other form of genocide ever occuring in the world.
It really is a totally different thing because of how well and for how long it had been planned - that's what's so shocking.
people always focus on the jews in the holocaust.. but what about the homosexuals too. It was worse to be gay than to be a jew then.
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