Get Hitler and Nazis out of your vocabulary.
All my life I've heard people in the USA preach and relate everything to Hitler and Nazis, teach in school how bad Nazi Germany was, that all this tragic stuff happened etc. etc.
Do you realize this stuff happens today? Every day, all over the globe, men are killed, women are enslaved, children are traumatized if they survive. And you know what we do about it? Nothing. We say, "Meh, that's in another country, I don't care." So for people in the 1940's your heart aches enough for you to talk about it constantly 80 years later, but suddenly, when it's women and children alive today, you don't care? What changed since the Holocaust? Don't answer that cause I can tell you. Nothing. The USA didn't care back then. We don't care now. Violent people invade weaker countries, kill most of them in ways that are slower and more painful than just bullets (like you see on TV), and traumatize the rest for life (which may not be long after that). And the USA turns a blind eye. This is the way it was in WWII. This is the way it is today. This is the way it is.
It disgusts me when I see people use WWII as a talking point for justice or nobility, and even use stories or images of victims from back then to cry about human rights, when we haven't even done ANYTHING to honor the memory of those people that OUR COUNTRY turned away and told to go die alone. And you know what? Those people did. They went and they died alone, and they're gone, and we didn't care.
We do the same thing today.
This poor woman I'm looking at now, an old picture from after one of the battles of WWII, being used by some American to talk about history or whatever... We don't even understand what that woman had been through. If we did, I don't think we would brush modern injustices under the rug so easily.
Do you realize this stuff happens today? Every day, all over the globe, men are killed, women are enslaved, children are traumatized if they survive. And you know what we do about it? Nothing. We say, "Meh, that's in another country, I don't care." So for people in the 1940's your heart aches enough for you to talk about it constantly 80 years later, but suddenly, when it's women and children alive today, you don't care? What changed since the Holocaust? Don't answer that cause I can tell you. Nothing. The USA didn't care back then. We don't care now. Violent people invade weaker countries, kill most of them in ways that are slower and more painful than just bullets (like you see on TV), and traumatize the rest for life (which may not be long after that). And the USA turns a blind eye. This is the way it was in WWII. This is the way it is today. This is the way it is.
It disgusts me when I see people use WWII as a talking point for justice or nobility, and even use stories or images of victims from back then to cry about human rights, when we haven't even done ANYTHING to honor the memory of those people that OUR COUNTRY turned away and told to go die alone. And you know what? Those people did. They went and they died alone, and they're gone, and we didn't care.
We do the same thing today.
This poor woman I'm looking at now, an old picture from after one of the battles of WWII, being used by some American to talk about history or whatever... We don't even understand what that woman had been through. If we did, I don't think we would brush modern injustices under the rug so easily.
