Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: Eleutheria5
Remembering the Holocaust was supposed to help prevent future cases of genocide.

Unfortunately it didn't help the Chinese, the Cambodians, the Tibetans, the Rwandans, the Timorese, etc.

The only thing it's being used for now is to stifle climate debate.

4 posted on 01/22/2020 3:20:15 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


To: who_would_fardels_bear

How does remembering the Holocaust stifle climate debate?

Further, the climate debate has been settled. Global warming and climate change is a complete fraud, as presented for control.

Yes, the weather changes. Who knew? And the idea we’re having the hottest days in history is preposterous.

We had one of the coldest years in decades here in Los Angeles last year. The Sun is exhibiting less activity that changes our climate, and it’s simply cooler because of it.

We have got to quit buying into the propaganda that has been spewed for the last 25 years, and has not come true at all.


5 posted on 01/22/2020 3:43:39 PM PST by DoughtyOne (The Leftistist media and particularly CNN NEWS should come with a ten day supply of Cipro.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies ]

To: who_would_fardels_bear; Eleutheria5

“Remembering the Holocaust was supposed to help prevent future cases of genocide.”


There is no doubt that memory is important - God even commands the Jews to remember things that happen to them. Without memory, everything is a new experience, and learning is impossible.

That said, MERELY learning about something (or teaching about it to others) BY ITSELF, does absolutely nothing. Oh, some (or many) are informed - but if they just sit around the next time a similar event occurs and talk about it, then all of that learning is pretty much for nought. In the case of the Shoah (Holocaust), the people who perpetrated it were very sure that violence used by them against others would solve what they viewed as a problem. They did NOT subscribe to the (fatally flawed, in my view) belief that “violence never solved anything.” So, in view of the willingness of clearly evil people to use violence against innocents, for innocents to do nothing but sit around and talk about things is not merely useless, but it almost serves as an invitation to commit exactly that kind of violence. I, personally, subscribe to the ideal of doing no harm to others, but also not allowing others to do harm to you - which necessarily means that sometimes you have to do what the Israelis did in 1967, which is to hit the other guy first, before he can fatally strike you. Also, as a Jew, I am keenly aware that there are only about 15 million of us left on this ball of dust - so we don’t have the luxury of sitting around and having a nice academic discussion about how wrong it is for someone else to do violence against us; we simply cannot absorb large numbers of casualties and then (righteously) strike back later. I don’t want my epitaph to be, “Well, at least he acted morally and wasn’t the aggressor.” Screw that - survival is far more important.


6 posted on 01/22/2020 4:17:48 PM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies ]

To: who_would_fardels_bear

For that matter, remembering the Armenians didn’t help the Jews and the Gypsies much, either.


7 posted on 01/22/2020 7:42:41 PM PST by Eleutheria5 ("SHUT UP!" he explained.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson