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Holocaust Memorial Day or is Bc slip more important

107 replies

Theboodythatrocked · 27/01/2015 19:36

That really. Posters banging on about semantics and knickers in twist and here we have real evil, real racist evil bastards.

Ffs just turn in radio 5 all day or BBC 2 now. This is The news.

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Rafflesway · 27/01/2015 20:17

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TwitterWooooo · 27/01/2015 20:18

I have no idea what the "other" thread is about.
But I do think its important to remember the non Jewish people affected by the holocaust too.

bigjimsdiamondmine · 27/01/2015 20:20

yabu.

They are two completely separate issues, the link is tenuous at best. If, for example, I heard someone using racist slurs in the street I wouldn't say "well its holocaust memorial day today, and its not as bad as that I'll leave em to it" Hmm
I know the BC issue isn't on that scale, but the point is one doesn't counteract the other in the way you have described.

TwitterWooooo · 27/01/2015 20:21

Hate spiders you have inspired me to do the same.

Tinks42 · 27/01/2015 20:23

These threads really annoy me. Were any of you alive then? Everyone sort of gets on their high horses and spouts off trying to be very "intellectual" without knowing much at all.

You lot will argue about absolutely anything and sometimes its just not right!

jonicomelately · 27/01/2015 20:26

Raffles I'm just arguing my corner as we're allowed to to on here. If you think I'm intellectual then I thank you for the compliment. You should also know you're in a minority of one!

Wombat22 · 27/01/2015 20:27

Tinks you don't need to have been alive to realise the horror of the Holocaust Shock

hobnobs BC is Benedict Cumberbatch (or similar) and the comparison is something that he said

TwitterWooooo · 27/01/2015 20:27

Tinks..., I don't understand your point, what difference does it make if any of us were alive then, are we not allowed to have opinions or spare some thoughts murdered ancestors.

TwitterWooooo · 27/01/2015 20:28

* For our *

Tinks42 · 27/01/2015 20:29

And you don't need to start a thread to argue the toss about it either.

It's bloody disrespectful in my eyes.

Some things aren't meant to be "debated"

jonicomelately · 27/01/2015 20:29

Isn't the point of Holocaust Day to teach people who weren't alive at the time about what happened in the concentration camps and keep the 'memory' of it alive?

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Theboodythatrocked · 27/01/2015 20:33

Hate what a lovely gesture and have just done the same.

Tinks I was married with 2 children during the genicide in Bosnia and remember the horror of it well. Don't assume all posters are as obviously young as you are/sound.

join I think you will find you are in the minority.

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Tinks42 · 27/01/2015 20:34

Well even more shame on you then to start such a thread.

Im older than you think, and probably wiser.

Hatespiders · 27/01/2015 20:35

The reason in my opinion for commemorating such events is to warn and inform the next generation. We have had genocide tragedies since the Holocaust (Rwanda for example) and Nationalistic racism is still rife.
'Lest We Forget' is a good motto.
I'm a churchgoer, but I have never been able to understand how God could have permitted such atrocities on such a scale. I lit my candle and said a short prayer, not just for past victims of the Holocaust, but for Peace on Earth in our time.

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Theboodythatrocked · 27/01/2015 20:36

tethersend teaching children to ridicule others is intent to racism!

Obviously children are blameless but Intent was there.

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Tinks42 · 27/01/2015 20:39

I hope this thread is pulled. The sooner the better.

meglet · 27/01/2015 20:40

theboody I almost started a thread in the news but I just couldn't. I didn't know what to say Sad , there are no words.

The BBC news was showing some of the Auschwitz service around 5pm. It was on one of the screens at the gym, several of us were watching it. Children of the Holocaust is on BBC4 now.

jonicomelately · 27/01/2015 20:40

fGS Thebodythatrocked If you're going to try to argue the toss with me at least do me the fucking courtesy of reading my posts properly and not misquoting me. The comment about another poster being 'in a minority of one' was a self-deprecating comment. I was referring to the fact she said I was being intellectual. I was making a lighthearted joke against myself that i am not intellectual.

To be honest I only came on here because I'm bored, in bed with flu and I think you're being ridiculous and offensive. If you want to 'win' your pathetic argument so badly I can't be bothered to engage with your stupid posts now.

TwitterWooooo · 27/01/2015 20:42

Tinks, why why should it be pulled?

SlaggyIsland · 27/01/2015 20:45

The OP's comparison is spurious and ridiculous.

Tinks42 · 27/01/2015 20:46

Here we go.

See what I was saying.... some things should just not be debated.

Start a thread by all means OP saying how horrific it was but to try to weigh one thing up against another is just not on.

Tinks42 · 27/01/2015 20:46

Really twitter, do you not see why?

tethersend · 27/01/2015 20:54

"Obviously children are blameless but Intent was there."

Not in the children it wasn't.

Their words were still racist. They were indoctrinated, but the words they used were racist. They did not stop being racist because they were spoken by children.

TwitterWooooo · 27/01/2015 20:59

Actually no.

Tinks42 · 27/01/2015 21:01

OMG... Enough!

what is wrong with you all? why on earth would you argue about this?