Is it time we stop talking about "The Holocaust"?

Question

I read the other day that our rep to the WTO talks jumped all over the Brazilian rep because of something the Brazilian said about Josef Goebbels and the use of propaganda. Our rep was a jewess whose grandparents supposedly were holocost survivors.

Isn't it about time we put it in the past where it belongs?

Answer 1

Those that forget the past are doomed to repeat it.

Answer 2

no because if we are not aware of history we are bound to repeat it

Answer 3

No, it is not. But it should be more inclusive, such as the Gypsies and other people deemed "unfit". It is not the exclusive province of Judaism.

My mother was a young woman who remembers the horror of seeing the newsreels of the death camp inmates being released, and she's with the Jews: "Never again."

Answer 4

no it is not.. if people stop talkign bout things they forget and then its bound to happen again.

Answer 5

you forgot the coupla mil in Cambodia - Khmer Rouge

It's a trump card Jews can use like blacks & the N-word.  Everyone's looking for that one thing they can use/say that will completely disable their opponent.

Answer 6

I do believe there was an overreaction here, but an understandable one.

The Brazilian representative wasn't calling anyone a n**i; he was simply saying that they were using propaganda tactics, much in the same style of the n**i propaganda machine.  But having a similar style in terms of propaganda does not mean one has the same racist ideas and, quite frankly, murderous ideas of the n***s.  

But I do think its understandable that the word n**i has a particularly strong effect, and sounds particularly venomous, to those of Jewish descent.  Especially to one whose parents could have been killed off by that very belief system.

But either way, putting things in the past and never bringing them back up is a sure way to make sure they will be back in the future.  It must be fully understood by everyone just how bad things like slavery, genocide, ethnic cleansing, and mass deportations can really be.  And if we never bring them up how can we teach the younger generations, who hadn't seen it (and hopefully never will), just what these things can really do to destroy humanity (both physically and spiritually)?