Posted on 07/30/2024 1:20:02 PM PDT by sinsofsolarempirefan
Edited on 07/30/2024 1:29:07 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
[I cannot believe people started laughing at Germans being killed in 2000. 1950, 60 maybe even 70 when the war was still fresh, but that late?]
Elections are being subverted, the people still think thier vote counts and they wake up to another night mare the following day
Other parts of the world have history that goes back hundreds of years, and their people know it. Look at the Middle East. Look at the Balkans.
I can well believe that anecdote.
Yes, exactly ๐
I remember the media echo over here.
No big surprise, but, OTOH, there were quite a number of letters by Britons to German newspapers, who roundly condemned the aforementioned incident, and apologized for the behavior of some of their countrymen.
One read โItโs the same thing with every nation, every people. Some of them will inevitably be scum. Regrettably, thatโs never going to change.โ
Well, I’d never heard it before. Nowadays I haven’t really encountered anyone who hates Germans that much. Singing ‘10 german bombers’ etc, yes, but that isn’t really a serious expression of hate.
I do remember during the troubles when the IRA was bombing England an Irish accent would make one very unwelcome in some pubs and shops up until the 1990s, but you won’t find many people in England who would tell an Irishman to ‘f-off’ for being Irish now, and its the same with being English in Ireland.
I’m sure there are some idiots who would still feel that way but they would be unlikely to embarrass themselves doing it at work or in public because they’d get a very negative response from any compatriots in earshot.
Thanks AW.
I definitely agree. ๐
And normally the big haters are not those who had to live through the war and all the dreadfulness it brings, but they are normally hangers-on, who have no personal experience with war or genocide.
I think they are naive and/or a little callous, for the most part.
Mostly, in Britain, to my knowledge, the attitude is generally more tolerant: there are cases in which Germans were joining British Remembrance Day celebrations without much ado, wearing poppies, praying, singing hymns and shedding tears together with the Britons.
For the German guests, it was no doubt problematic and painful at first - but eventually everybody mourned alongside everybody, and for everybodyโs loved ones.
Requiescant in pace๐๐๐ป ๐
May peace be maintained in Western Europe, and be restored in Eastern Europe and all over the world. Amen.
How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity.
Winston Churchill
“And normally the big haters are not those who had to live through the war and all the dreadfulness it brings, but they are normally hangers-on, who have no personal experience with war or genocide.”
Reminds me of a story I hear of my g-grandad. He’d been a tommy in the trenches during the First World War, but he never hated the Germans, or at least, not when he was an old man.
He was apparently furious when he heard about a German exchange student who had been maltreated by a family that had invited them into his home specifically so they could be nasty to him over the war.
He’d seen the war up close and personal in the entrenches. He experienced suffering and what the Germans did to him and his friends, but he also saw what his side did to the Germans when they went on the attack.
He knew they’d faced the same horrors that he had, and he couldn’t hate them for what they put him through.
What a wonderful, kind-hearted gentleman your great-grandfather was๐
Yes, and there were many, many more people as magnanimous and good, thank God.
This proves that Mankind is not completely evil, as a few people have been asserting, and that there is still hope for humanity ๐๐๐ป
Oh, and whenever I imagine how much sorrow could have been avoided if the peace proposals of Lord Lansdowne and Pope Benedict XV. and others had been heeded in 1916, it makes me utterly depressed.
Oh, if onlyโฆ๐
Kipling, in 1917, would never have used โSaxonโ, with his son having died in 1915, KIA against Germany.
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The Saxons were immigrants to England from northern Germany and southern Scandinavia. Venerable Bede, considered The Father of English History, wrote that they were from some of the most powerful and warlike tribes in Germany. Kipling of course was obviously referring to the genetic influence of those English ancestors in his famous poem, using the words “AWAKENED SAXON”.
Only 2% of the population in Rwanda are Muslims.
The Brits should have been transparent regarding the suspect, if they did that, the riots may not have happened in the first place.
I hate to sound conspiratorial but maybe there is a reason they aren’t clarifying? They know that the idea of a Muslim terrorist doing something is like a spark to a tinderbox, you aren’t going to get riots over one crazy Rwandan Christian lad going off, but being able to assume he is Muslim will definately in flame the situation.
This way when the situation is clarified that Axel Rudakabana is actually of Christian background they can smear the rioters as stupid gammon racists who were wrong about this one incident, disarm any further riots and they can get back to gaslighting the public and flooding the country with more Muslims in peace with minimal opposition.
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