Firstly Jacob, I don't think you can advocate ANY aspect of Neo-Nazi beliefs just because you have some 'nice' friends (even though their Hitler views do seem extremely backward and inappropriate for today's society.) Neo-Nazi beliefs are all wrong. Their views shouldn't be tolerated by anyone. Maybe they did stick up for you one day, but it's no excuse to be mingling with people that clearly display backward views that are laughable at in today's world. They still feel a superiority complex over other races whcih is ridiculous. We're all equal, and idiotic Neo-Nazis need to realise that.
Secondly, in response to Al's post about not forgetting the Native American struggle-What about the Cambodians and Pol-Pot's Khmer Rouge? What about the Delhi and Amritsar massacres caused by the British, and the millions of lives that they are accountable for by dividing parts of India into Pakistan and Bangladesh? What about the Congolese, Rwandan, Sudanese, Zimbabwean, Somalian, Ethiopian and Eritrean massacres happening every week?
There's so much more to mass murdering than we care to open our eyes too. When I arrived in Kenya two weeks ago, there were news reports of 281 people being killed two miles north of the Kenyan border. No one talks about the day to day attrocities Africa faces and it's sad. At the end of this year, over twice or thrice as many Africans as Jews killed in the Holocaust will die of starvation, sickness, HIV/AIDS, millions of preventable diseases and corrupt Governments demanding mass murders of a certain tribe or people. Okay, maybe not all of these people have their suffering inflicted by a dictator, but they do suffer immensely and that does count, doesn't it. These people die from the common cold and ridiculous diseases like cat flu. Okay, maybe a few hundred thousand or million people starved to death in concentration camps. It's sad because they didn't need to, but Africa could surely match or beat that number in the matter of a few weeks.
At the end of the day, the Holocaust of yesterday saddens me, but the plight of Africa today is so much worse.
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