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Originally Posted by lemit
I am an American of German descent, so I have some of the genetic responsibility and some of the genetic guilt for the Holocaust. In third-year college German, I discovered the post-war German authors and became caught up in their dilemna: how do you live with your sense of shame? How do you sleep, or eat, or breathe when you know you are part of a group that deprived many other groups of those privileges? (Yes, privileges is what you thought they were for those other groups, so that is what you must think they are for you.) And how do you make sure the world never forgets that you yourself are evil?
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What balderdash
There is no such thing as genetic guilt.
There has been genocide on a regular basis though Human history. The Germans just did it efficiently keeping detailed records and to a very powerful group/religion.
who mournes for the gypsies and other minorities, the disabled and mentally ill he killed. tThe tousands of young men killed in both wars 1&2 by our insanity. Have you read what happened to German troops at Stalingrad?
What about the
- Spanish and European annihilation of maybe 100 million natives in N and s. America.
- Slavery
- the inquision
- Salem
- The countless thousands of aborigines killed by the British invaders of Australia.
- the Armenians
- The Japanese in China in 1930's
- Pol Pot
- Africa 10 to the power of what 30?
- Russia today with some minorities.
- The Chinese in Tibet.
- N. Korea playing brinkmanship with nuclear weapons
- Israel and the Palestinians?
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We need to remember that scratch us all and there is a racist underneath.
We are deigned for group membership and behaviour, protection of that group and rejection of difference. Something we need to re-programme by education and social and economic and legal means.
We are not forgetting the past that is why footballers were sacked and or fined this week in Australia because they made racial slurs in a professional football game. Surely a long used football psychological tactic. Any racism must be nipped in the bud.
Get a life. Individual Germans can't feel solely responsible for the holocaust--that way madness lies. We are all responsible not just the Germans. No, we should never forget, nor should we dwell on it and see it as our own personal racial heritage.
