insult to the truth

[alfredjprufrock at club-internet.fr]

O> I don't think that Hitler needed the Belgian example. No, there hasn't been
O> a commission in Brussels that has said "let's exterminate them" like the
O> Wannsee-conference. There were no signs on the Brussels park benches:
O> "whites only" -- nevertheless it's been a great crime and genocide. I think
O> Belgium hasn't paid yet for it.

i don't think he needed it to the extent that there were other
examples before. this comes in a long line of extermination. i agree
that the belgians in congo did not plan the extermination the way the
nazis planned it. there seren't signs on the brussels park benches,
hell they didn't really need them did they? they had human zoos for
that. but that's not the issue. you're right for wannsee.


O> It's the old question of writing the word *holocaust* with a capital *H* or
O> not. I prefer to do, or I use *Shoah* instead. But French, British, Dutch
O> and especially Belgian colonialism and its crimes of course has always been
O> one of the arguments for the German nazis that everything they had done had
O> been ok, compared to what others had done. I don't buy that argument.
er, well me neither. of course it's not ok because others did it
before, come on otto... i really think it set an example as far as
wiping out people mostly considered subhumans. you cannot really
exterminate "real" people that way, well you can but it never goes down as
well as when you're allegedly taking care of a different species.
which is what the nazis claimed they were doing. which is why it
wasn't such a big deal in all colonies, in africa, in america. hell,
they even had debates to decide whether or not native americans had
souls! i think you know what i mean. i am not trying to demean the
shoah. i'm just saying that we should always keep in mind how it is
related to other massacres, which interestingly enough are not deemed
worthy of so much attention.


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 alfredjprufrock                            mailto:alfredjprufrock at club-internet.fr