Is it just dumb college kids...or the youth of today
Is this something we can just palm off as kids being kids or is this just the type of kid that is being brought up in todays world. Granted we are imperfect beings being brought up in an imperfect world, but sometimes things that happen with the youth of today are just sadly plain dumbass ignorant and at times not just kids.
Prince Harry, dresses up in Nazi regalia to go to a party. Lincoln University students in Christchurch do it down there. Now, Auckland Grammar boys do it. Are they all completely ignorant of what the whole meaning behind those symbols are? Forget the innocent origins of the Swastika, its what the symbol has become to mean. The Nazi regime, the holocaust, the extermination of millions of minorities in Europe...a symbol of hate, oppression and indignity.
Those five school boys from Auckland Grammar got a very small dose of something they truely deserve. You know...someone should have put them into a container done up to be something like an extermination chamber and shut in there for some real education.
Some real questions have to be asked. One I saw on a Stuff article comment was "where were the teachers?" Good question! But then again...what have they not learned over the years of being at school? Are any of them history students...and is this not a part of the history curriculum? Have we become so politically correct that we dare not confront our rising generations with the worlds dirty past?
I think we lose the memory of things which should never be forgotten...in this sense to make sure as much as possible that they do not happen again. It is truly to bad that so smaller but no less terrible degrees it has happened again, and in some ways continues to happen. Seem's some of humanity are slower to learn than others (like our African cousin Mugabe or Kosovo leader Slobodan Milošević).
But the WW2 atrocities engaged in by the German army on the Jewish and minorities was "systematic", it was planned and premeditated. It just didn't happen. This was a thought out, planned and programmed occurrence. Ethnic Polish, Jews, Jehovah's Witnesses, Soviet prisoners of war, Romani, disabled and homosexual victims bring the total death toll to somewhere around 17 million.
When those fools at Auckland Grammar bowed down to that Nazi symbol, they acknowledged a symbol that had all that imagery behind it including this one. When those idiots at Lincoln brandished Nazi uniforms and some went as the oppressed, THIS picture symbolises what they were glorifying.
I heard once someone refer to the confiscation of land from Maori and such as its own form of holocaust. I'm sorry...I cannot agree. 17 million people were not systematically hunted out to be killed. Yeah, we lost some land...we're still alive.
This is a sensitive subject. I hope one day to be able to visit Auschwitz and other places like it, as a sacred place of reverence. To remember the tragedy that happened...and hope that it never happens again.
Prince Harry, dresses up in Nazi regalia to go to a party. Lincoln University students in Christchurch do it down there. Now, Auckland Grammar boys do it. Are they all completely ignorant of what the whole meaning behind those symbols are? Forget the innocent origins of the Swastika, its what the symbol has become to mean. The Nazi regime, the holocaust, the extermination of millions of minorities in Europe...a symbol of hate, oppression and indignity.
Those five school boys from Auckland Grammar got a very small dose of something they truely deserve. You know...someone should have put them into a container done up to be something like an extermination chamber and shut in there for some real education.
Some real questions have to be asked. One I saw on a Stuff article comment was "where were the teachers?" Good question! But then again...what have they not learned over the years of being at school? Are any of them history students...and is this not a part of the history curriculum? Have we become so politically correct that we dare not confront our rising generations with the worlds dirty past?
I think we lose the memory of things which should never be forgotten...in this sense to make sure as much as possible that they do not happen again. It is truly to bad that so smaller but no less terrible degrees it has happened again, and in some ways continues to happen. Seem's some of humanity are slower to learn than others (like our African cousin Mugabe or Kosovo leader Slobodan Milošević).
But the WW2 atrocities engaged in by the German army on the Jewish and minorities was "systematic", it was planned and premeditated. It just didn't happen. This was a thought out, planned and programmed occurrence. Ethnic Polish, Jews, Jehovah's Witnesses, Soviet prisoners of war, Romani, disabled and homosexual victims bring the total death toll to somewhere around 17 million.
When those fools at Auckland Grammar bowed down to that Nazi symbol, they acknowledged a symbol that had all that imagery behind it including this one. When those idiots at Lincoln brandished Nazi uniforms and some went as the oppressed, THIS picture symbolises what they were glorifying.
I heard once someone refer to the confiscation of land from Maori and such as its own form of holocaust. I'm sorry...I cannot agree. 17 million people were not systematically hunted out to be killed. Yeah, we lost some land...we're still alive.
This is a sensitive subject. I hope one day to be able to visit Auschwitz and other places like it, as a sacred place of reverence. To remember the tragedy that happened...and hope that it never happens again.
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