Went to DC with hublet this past weekend, to do some museuming, and headed over to the Holocaust museum. While we were in the Ukraine section (for those who haven't been, the exhibit is in parts, from Hitler's rise to power through liberation of the death camps; the Ukraine section details what happened to Jews in countries defeated or occupied by Nazis), an elderly man in an army cap who was standing next to hublet suddenly said, "I was there."
He told hublet that he avoided the camps because his mother would take him and his sister out to the woods when the soldiers came, and they would stay in a tent out there for a week or so, foraging for food, until they judged it "safe" to come back. All things considered, he was very lucky.
The upshot of all this? Simple. The next time some ignorant ass decides to forego rational discourse in favor of calling the current administration/anyone of a different political stripe Nazis, I will bitchslap that person until his or her brain is the consistency of jello, because that might actually IMPROVE their reasoning ability, and I'm all about intellectual improvement here.
Don't play the moral equivalency game with me. I won't just take my toys and go home, I'll take your toys and shove them up your ass first, THEN I'll take my toys and go home.
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You always seem to say what I wish I could say half as well.
Posted by: Indigo at June 25, 2003 10:39 PM