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Originally Posted by Yabadabbado
I’m new here and really don’t want to cause any waves, but I’ve been seeing a lot of nazi and hitler references in Coed discussions. I’m curious as to when did the holocaust become funny. Am I missing something? There is no inside joke about the holocaust. My ex wife is Jewish and just sitting around with her grandparents talking about that genocide is mind boggling. I only put this here because it seems like a running joke that isn’t funny in Coed. If it’s in the wrong area mods please redirect
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I agree with you. I've always thought it tasteless, out of pocket, and in violation of the spirit of the law if not the letter. Many of these people have never lived through real evil and suffering so for many of them much of life is filtered as fantasaic, conceptual or ideal. These same folk would go ape nuts if you joked about 911 and made joking reference of adulation and praise of Osama Bin Laden. Some would go ape nuts if they joked about slavery and the slave masters. I mean some would consider it extremely tasteless and crass if you joked about Pimps beating up escorts. So I'm perplexed that many find the intolerable suffering during the Holocaust as a joke. I find nothing funny about dismissive banter of the perpetrators of people getting their eyelids cut off and being faced towards the Sun on a crucifix or being drowned in pools of excrement or being starved to skin on bone - the sickness unto death.
I think it's a result of a very immature mindset. If these people have never lived in a third world country or experienced evil first hand I suggest they read Victor Frankel's book "The Search For Meaning" which incidentally is what they're looking for.
I'm sorry you had to experience this OP. I know how it must hurt thinking of folks making lite of your ancestors suffering
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