"This article illustrates a point I have previously made about "The" Holocaust.
Genocides are a sad but constant facet of history. What happened in Germany in WW2 was not isolated, nor confined to just one people. Typhus knows no citizenship. There were genocides long before Hitler was born. There will no doubt be genocides in the future. There is a genocide taking place right now as you read these words, both obscured and justified by constant reference to just one out of a thousand genocides that took place in the middle of the last century.
In the gap between "The" Holocaust and Gaza, there were genocides in the Soviet Union (23 million) , China (~50 million), Guatamala (100,000), Uganda (300,000), Cambodia (1.7 million), North Korea (1.6 million), Ethiopia (1.5 million), Biafra (1 million), Afghanistan (1.3 million), Rwanda (.8 million), East Timor (.8 million), Kurdistan (600,000), Bangladesh (800,000, Angola (400,000), Uganda (300,000), Zaire (number unknown), Liberia (22,000), Sierra Leone (200,000), Yugoslavia (180,000), Burundi (150,000), Centrafrica (number unknown), Vietnam, Haita, Chad, Taiwan, Chile...
All these genocides that happened AFTER WW2, and next to which the total deaths caused by the Nazis and Typhus pales, are not taught in the public schools. No museums to honor those dead exist in the cities of the United States. They don't count, any more than the non-Jewish prisoners in the German labor camps count. Israel cannot extort money with the memory of those other dead, cannot justify its own crimes in Palestine by pointing to those other genocides, so they are simply not important, the dead beneath notice and undeserving of sympathy. We are taught to honor only those dead governments can exploit to justify more killing.
So, we are taught about "The" Holocaust, indoctrinated with it, urged to worship it, bow down before it, and threatened with prison and worse for failing to make proper obeiscence to it, while all these million other deaths, useless to the powers that be, are simply tossed into the waste can of history.
Genocides are a sad but constant facet of history. What happened in Germany in WW2 was not isolated, nor confined to just one people. Typhus knows no citizenship. There were genocides long before Hitler was born. There will no doubt be genocides in the future. There is a genocide taking place right now as you read these words, both obscured and justified by constant reference to just one out of a thousand genocides that took place in the middle of the last century.
In the gap between "The" Holocaust and Gaza, there were genocides in the Soviet Union (23 million) , China (~50 million), Guatamala (100,000), Uganda (300,000), Cambodia (1.7 million), North Korea (1.6 million), Ethiopia (1.5 million), Biafra (1 million), Afghanistan (1.3 million), Rwanda (.8 million), East Timor (.8 million), Kurdistan (600,000), Bangladesh (800,000, Angola (400,000), Uganda (300,000), Zaire (number unknown), Liberia (22,000), Sierra Leone (200,000), Yugoslavia (180,000), Burundi (150,000), Centrafrica (number unknown), Vietnam, Haita, Chad, Taiwan, Chile...
All these genocides that happened AFTER WW2, and next to which the total deaths caused by the Nazis and Typhus pales, are not taught in the public schools. No museums to honor those dead exist in the cities of the United States. They don't count, any more than the non-Jewish prisoners in the German labor camps count. Israel cannot extort money with the memory of those other dead, cannot justify its own crimes in Palestine by pointing to those other genocides, so they are simply not important, the dead beneath notice and undeserving of sympathy. We are taught to honor only those dead governments can exploit to justify more killing.
So, we are taught about "The" Holocaust, indoctrinated with it, urged to worship it, bow down before it, and threatened with prison and worse for failing to make proper obeiscence to it, while all these million other deaths, useless to the powers that be, are simply tossed into the waste can of history.
And when was the last time you saw any nation pass a law making it a crime to doubt or question any of these other genocides?" -- Mike Rivero of What Really Happened
