Holocaust Memorial Day or is Bc slip more important

[Theboodythatrocked]

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.

Late to this thread but I'm 54. Any member of my family who couldn't get out of the ghetto in Lithuania was killed. I feel sad whenever the Holocaust is remembered, because humanity still has such a long way to go. Bosnia, Rwanda, Ukraine, Syria have followed and entire races are still 'othered' and wiped out. As a Jew, who has lost a lot of my family in the Pogroms, I have no objection with BC's use of the word 'coloured' being discussed today. I don't expect the whole nation to be subdued or feel unable to discuss sensitive issues because it's an anniversary of the Holocaust. I don't expect the entire nation to be focusing on the Holocaust or devoting threads to it really either.

thank you insitu for your insight, that must have been so, i'm sorry, i can't find the right words,

Indeed Bowlersarm

That was my only point.

instit

I started this thread out of frustration at the semantics of words. Maybe that was wrong.

I do think the entire nation needs to remember genocide and hate today and every day.

I can't find the right words either.

Your post is eloquent.,

I feel sad whenever the Holocaust is remembered, because humanity still has such a long way to go.

Genocide continues today. It's happening now in Darfur - and that genocide has spread to the peoples of the Nuba Mountains and the Blue Nile, as Sudan's president al-Bashir tries to exterminate them all.

The ICT in Brussels has issued arrest warrants for al-Bashir for crimes against humanity and and for genocide. Not one major power has stepped up to enforce those warrants, or to stop the genocide.

Again, the world again fails to act. No-one bombed the railway tracks into Aushwitz; no-one stepped up to save the Jews from Hitler. And today, no-one has stopped al-Bashir. You could call him this century's Hitler. He is exterminating people because of their enthnicity and the colour of their skin.

We pause to remember the Holocaust, we're told 'Never Again'. But it's happening again.

I don't understand why the world still doesn't act.

ijny I agree totally. Did you see the report from the Congo regarding rape atrocities against women? Girls as young as 12 gang raped and cut. Pregnant and shunned!

All the atrocities you mentioned too.

Bosnia 1991! And now!

What is evil? Is it really the absence of good?

Do humans enjoy it? Or are they too frightened to refuse?

There is so much good intention and so many noble 'never again' sentiments, but no action. On one hand acknowledging every possible anniversary of the Holocaust, whilst doing nothing, or very little, to step in whenever ethnic cleansing is clearly taking place. For this reason, yesterday's Holocaust Day stuff here, rang particularly hollow for me. It's just posturing. What happened to my relatives, is happening every single day to someone else's. If genocide is not squashed flat wherever it takes place, then the Jews died in vain. Which is a grim thought.

Thanks for your kind words re my family. It makes me furious that so many people, in so many places, are still dealing with the same horrors.