This whole movement with people being offended left and right has gone way too far already. Safe spaces and all ... everyone seem like fragile little children that need protection from reality. Good luck in the real world. 

Cry me a river,
Build a bridge,
and get over it?

I stumbled on a trailer for Angelina Jolie's film 'The day they killed my father', I had no idea it had been adapted. It's not often I've read the book before seeing a film, I'm not a big reader. I had seen the film 'The killing fields' as a kid and visited a killing fields site in Phnom Penh. I've thought about revisiting 'The Killing fields' film, but couldn't even watch the trailer for 'The day they killed my father' it's too much.
 
I taught farm kids in the south of Cambodia for an NGO, they were amazing. Most of my students were under ten, but I had a class of 16 year olds. A year or so later one of the boys was missed his exams after a bike crash that fractured his skull. But he recovered and they allowed him to sit late, he did well and went to Phnom Penh University to study medicine, he'll be a doctor by now. To have the drive to go from living in huts in rice farms and getting to University. Ik'm from a village myself, my mother was a fruit picker. I went to Uni, but compared to this kid, I had it handed n a plate. A messed up ****s like Pol Pot wiped this out on some bronze aged fantasy. Disgusting desn't come close, no words do. This **** can't be forgotten.   

This is all over my head

Rain
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/holocaust-study-millennials/
 
"More than one-fifth of millennials in the U.S. -- 22 percent -- haven't heard of, or aren't sure if they've heard of, the Holocaust"...
 
This actually gives me a bit of perspective. Earlier this week at work, I was asked by supervisors  to hide a book I was reading during my breaks because some people took offense.
 

 
 
One must appreciate the irony. This book is a best-seller that sold millions of copies since it was first published in the 60's. It is as Anti-Nazi as it gets. As a matter of fact, the author was censored by the Nazis and had to flee Germany and the introduction to this edition was written by a well-known Jewish author...
 
But as they do nowadays, people simply reacted. They did not bother to inquire what the book was about, to look it up on Google or to even come up to me and to ask: WTH dude? 


Of course, by complying and hiding the book, I probably gave those idiots the impression that they were right, that this was a bad book and that I was some kind of nazi sympathizer. Considering that I've spent a lot of time studying with rabbis, teaching myself Hebrew and visiting the local synagogue in recent years, the irony is not lost on me...
 
Anyway -  that is what I get for spending time amongst the self-proclaimed most educated generation in history... 
 
 
 
 

Hmm, how ironic. It is probably on some people's book burning list just because of the cover.
 
I had a similar encounter some years back. I work in IT and wore a "got root?" t-shirt on a casual day. I had a supervisor (by title only) pull me aside asking if it was related to weed.

I got s&!t for having the same book on my shelf in the barracks at Ft. Bragg. I just about came unglued. You shoulda seen the look on my Platoon Sergeant's face when I told him through clenched teeth that my Grandmother's maiden name was Grenemayer and that I probably had a relative or two who got turned into a f***ing lampshade by those bastards.

I see no harm in learning about all things both good and bad. How can one identify evil if they don't know what it is?
The US brought Nazi's over here after the war. Some of them were bad, very bad. Our military establishment did this
in the name of progress.
For followup check out Brazil and Nazi's after the war. Better yet the goings on both past and present in Antarctica. The 3rd Reich didn't  die.
There are other threats out there more serious. Nuff said. No politics allowed here.
 
I'm reading a book called, " The Secret History Of The World'. Once again, it can be beneficial to know what isn't so you can know what is. Nuff said.
 
Now I need to be putting on my cool shades and going-
 
 
 
 
 
 

I actually first heard the term "Holocaust" in this specialized setting when I was in college. I had known for years about the extermination of the Jews and could give you the numbers from memory. In fact I knew that the same system had been used to kill Roma, Slavs, gays (then called homosexuals), POW's, the severely handicapped and political dissidents (then called communists), but I had never heard of the term holocaust used to describe what the Nazis called the Final Solution. The term has become much more popular over the years, although it is still most commonly heard as part of the phrase holocaust denial. Had you asked me in a poll in those days using the term holocaust, I too would have failed the test.

FEARLESS LEADER is in control so don't worry!

Define control.