{"id":18961,"date":"2013-12-13T05:46:12","date_gmt":"2013-12-13T05:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/12\/13\/somepretty-things-mellyora221b\/"},"modified":"2015-02-20T22:31:42","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T22:31:42","slug":"somepretty-things-mellyora221b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/12\/13\/somepretty-things-mellyora221b\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-18961 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/12\/13\/somepretty-things-mellyora221b\/attachment\/18962\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/files\/2013\/12\/tumblr_mnz4w908IO1ssy2euo1_1280-150x150.jpg\" 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width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/files\/2013\/12\/tumblr_mnz4w908IO1ssy2euo7_500-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/12\/13\/somepretty-things-mellyora221b\/attachment\/18969\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/files\/2013\/12\/tumblr_mnz4w908IO1ssy2euo8_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a 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href=\"http:\/\/somepretty-things.tumblr.com\/post\/58474819204\/mellyora221b-tardigradetardis-ms-militant\">somepretty-things<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/mellyora221b.tumblr.com\/post\/58360112640\/tardigradetardis-ms-militant-they-only-teach\">mellyora221b<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/tardigradetardis.tumblr.com\/post\/54477184178\/ms-militant-they-only-teach-it-as-a-holocaust\">tardigradetardis<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/ms-militant.tumblr.com\/post\/53359987071\">ms-militant<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>they only teach it as a holocaust if millions of white people are killed<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Okay, I was going to scroll past &#8211; I was even going to\u00a0<em>reblog<\/em>, sans commentary &#8211; and then I hit that caption.<\/p>\n<p>Because you know what?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.adl.org\/hate-patrol\/antisemitism.asp\">In 1945, Jews weren\u2019t \u201cwhite\u201d<\/a>. They were \u201cJews.\u201d For hundreds of years, Jews weren\u2019t considered Caucasian, or European, or part of the privileged elite in any way, shape, or form. Even running the banks was another way to keep us oppressed, because guess what? If all bankers are Jews, and you don\u2019t like your interest rates, there\u2019s no one who\u2019s going to protest if you\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ushmm.org\/wlc\/en\/article.php?ModuleId=10005183\"><em>light our fucking house on fire<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But you know what? Okay, leave aside the Jews. Because we get taught about (even if it\u2019s not really given the time it deserves) and we\u2019ve got a country (that\u2019s busy pushing itself towards hell in a handbasket) and the Native Americans\/First Nations got neither of those.<\/p>\n<p>Let me tell you about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ushmm.org\/wlc\/en\/article.php?ModuleId=10005219\">Romani.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Let me tell you about the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Irish_Famine_(1740%E2%80%931741)\">Irish<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Let me tell you about the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anti-Scottish_sentiment\">Scots<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gallic_Wars\" title='Particularly that \"million killed including civilians\"'>Celts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.holocaustforgotten.com\/poland.htm\">The <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_War_II_casualties_of_Poland\">Poles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Holocaust_victims#Soviet_Slavs_and_POWs\">Slavs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Operation_Lentil_(Caucasus)\">millions <\/a>of people\u00a0<em>not<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ethnic_cleansing_of_Circassians\">members <\/a>of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Polish_Operation_of_the_NKVD_(1937%E2%80%931938)\">Russians <\/a>in the 1700s and 1800s. (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Holodomor\">And <\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Decossackization\">1900s<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Let me tell you about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Armenian_Genocide\">Armenia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Let me tell you about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nanking_Massacre\">China<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, let me tell <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Campaign_to_Suppress_Counterrevolutionaries\">you <\/a>about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zunghar_Khanate#Fall\">China <\/a>again, because <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Taiping_Rebellion\">China <\/a>has been through\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/An_Lushan_Rebellion\"><em>shit<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Let me tell you about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nigerian_Civil_War\">Nigeria<\/a>, and<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Apartheid_in_South_Africa\"> South Africa,<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rwandan_genocide\">Rwanda<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo#Civil_wars\">the <\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leopold_II_of_Belgium#Exploitation_and_atrocities\">Congo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Let me tell you about the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1936%E2%80%931939_Arab_revolt_in_Palestine\">Palestinian Territories<\/a> and then about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1948_Arab%E2%80%93Israeli_War\" title=\"Among other wars caused mostly because THERE WAS A JEWISH STATE\">Israel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And then the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Plan_Dalet\">Palestinian Territories<\/a> again.<\/p>\n<p>Let me tell you about the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stolen_Generations\">Aborigines<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Let me tell you about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Genocides_in_history\">this list<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_wars_and_anthropogenic_disasters_by_death_toll\" title=\"And this one too\">Wikipedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And then let me tell you this:<\/p>\n<p>We are taught about one genocide, if we are taught about any, and that is the Holocaust. We\u00a0<em>should<\/em> be taught about more.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bury-My-Heart-Wounded-Knee\/dp\/0805086846\"><em>Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee<\/em><\/a> should be required reading for\u00a0<em>every\u00a0<\/em>high school student. We should learn about the complete and utter<em>\u00a0dickery<\/em> committed by the US Government in the 19th (and 18th and 20th and 21st) century (centuries).<\/p>\n<p>We should also learn about the fact that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_War_II_casualties_of_the_Soviet_Union#Estimates_Of_Soviet_War_Dead_by_Western_Scholars\">our erstwhile ally during WWII was busy killing more of its own people than Germany ever accomplished.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But you know what?<\/p>\n<p>If we have to learn about one genocide,\u00a0<em>let\u2019s learn about the Holocaust<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>And I\u2019m not trying to diminish 100 million dead, or countless ripped from their land, or any of that.<\/p>\n<p>But 11 million people died in camps in 6 years (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Holocaust\" title=\"The camps opened in 1941 and closed in 1945. Mostly.\">really more like 4<\/a>). And that\u2019s something the US Government\u00a0<em>never<\/em> accomplished.<\/p>\n<p>But the genocide of the Native Americans was committed (and it makes me nauseous to type this, but it\u2019s true) by people believing that the Native Americans were savages, were animals, were of less value than the two billion bison killed during the same period. It was committed by\u00a0<em>soldiers<\/em> against\u00a0<em>strangers.<\/em> And many did not know.<\/p>\n<p>And the genocide of the Jews was committed by a population who lived alongside them, who\u00a0<em>knew<\/em> that Abram was just as smart as Johan, who\u00a0<em>knew<\/em> that they were human &#8211; and who killed them, and let them die regardless. It was committed by\u00a0<em>soldiers<\/em> against\u00a0<em>their own neighbours.<\/em> And everyone knew.<\/p>\n<p>What I\u2019m trying to say here, I guess, is this: the genocide of the Native Americans was horrible, but it won\u2019t happen again until we discover aliens, and possibly not even then. But the genocide of the Jews <em>occurred in the most highly educated population in the world<\/em> and it can happen any day, in any country.<\/p>\n<p>Even now.<\/p>\n<p>Even here.<\/p>\n<p>And\u00a0<em>that\u00a0<\/em>is why the Holocaust is taught in schools.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>I\u2019ve been to Auschwitz and Birkenau with my pupils yesterday. It\u2019s not only that people killed people out of hatred. It\u2019s not only that everyone knew and most of the population stayed silent. It\u2019s the perverted way that these millions of people were killed &#8211; the Nazis made them believe that they were simply relocated to another country. They made them believe that they would be able to build up a new life in the east (they even gave out flyers telling them what to take with them to their new \u2018homes\u2019). Even when people arrived in Auschwitz they were made believe that everyting would be fine. That they were to take a shower after the long journey, hundreds of them in one wagon supposed to transport animals. There were changing rooms with rules how to take a bath etc. And then they went in, not suspecting anything when the Nazis threw in gas bombs\u2026 In Birkenau 4000 to 5000 people were killed evey day!\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>re-blogging for the last two comments\u2026 and damn, that second one really did their research.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>somepretty-things: mellyora221b: tardigradetardis: ms-militant: they only teach it as a holocaust if millions of white people are killed Okay, I was going to scroll past &#8211; I was even going to\u00a0reblog, sans commentary &#8211; and then I hit that caption. Because you know what? In 1945, Jews weren\u2019t \u201cwhite\u201d. They were \u201cJews.\u201d For hundreds of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/12\/13\/somepretty-things-mellyora221b\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[51],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18961"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18972,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18961\/revisions\/18972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}