Hello. I will be your insensitive bastard for this evening. I apologize for the inconveniece. Thank you.
IN FUCKING POLAND. Wow, that's a place that wants
to be reminded of the Nazi regime REALLY soon.
It wasn't in my lifetime. I'm guessing it probably wasn't in yours. It certainly wasn't in the lifetime of any student in high school today.
It's unnecessary to hold pain in your heart inherited from previous generations. And that's part of the point. When I see a nazi flag, I don't get angry and I don't think it's healthy for other people to get angry over it either. You don't see people freaking out over the Rwandan genocide, do you? And that happened within our lifetime.
"Oh, but that happened to people in totally a different country, so we're not emotionally attached to it."
Ok. But for those of us in america, the nazi regime
also happened in a totally different country. But if you were to put a nazi flag on a flagpole here, people would freak out and cry for days. It would probably make the newspaper, there'd be protests and sit-outs and the school principal would have to field phone calls from parents and give an official statement about how terribly sorry he was.
Why? Seriously, why?
I wouldn't have gone to new york on september
12th, 2001 to make jokes about airplane crashes. But for people that get distraught about something that happened to their grandparent's generation on a different continent...isn't it time to stop getting angry about something that didn't even happen to you?