Holocaust Museum Washington DC

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Originally Posted by UnderseaLcpl

Did the tour include information on the other genocides of the century? Was half of the museum dedicated to the 6 million non-Jews who were also killed in the concentration camps?

Yeah, I thought not. I've already been there, and I saw what they chose to memorialize. Holocaust museum my ass. If it were really a memorial dedicated to the idea of "never again" it would be a lot more comprehensive. It would include the genocide of the Armenians and the Slavs and the Ukrainians and the Rwandans and the Somalis and the Cambodians and the Christians and the Muslims and so on and so forth. But that isn't really its purpose. It's just some crap thrown up by people with enough political influence to commemorate their own suffering, but not that of anyone else.
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While it may be true to some extent you should remember that that genocide was executed only on Jews for them being Jews.
Slavs and other eastern European peoples ended up in exterminations camps for resisting occupation.
Westerners enjoyed quite good life even as POWs

Originally Posted by UnderseaLcpl

Even worse, prominent members of the Jewish community have long spoken against the invasion of Iraq, a country in which at least 80,000 Kurds were systematically exterminated, by conservative estimates.
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Kurds and Israelis have closer ties than you might know.

Originally Posted by UnderseaLcpl

They can take their memorial and shove it up their ass as far as I'm concerned. It is clear that they don't give a s*** about other victims of genocide and are concerned only with themselves, at taxpayer expense. Screw them, and screw their BS memorial. I'll start remembering their suffering as soon as they start actively pursuing an anti-genocide agenda.

wow Really?