The Holocaust and Never Again

I grew up long ago enough to have run the risk that Never Again would have been my first words. 

For a vast majority of that time I was under the impression that Never Again referred to genocide. 

This morning, I had to turn off the UN Remembrance day stream, as it was being ruined by the Israeli and American ambassadors.  

The atrocities that took place during world war two and the holocaust were committed by humans. They were committed by regular people, their hatred and hardships abused by those in power. The Yom Ha Shoa and Holocaust remembrance days that I grew up on were built on these ideas. 

They were built on the idea that if the Jews had been completely exterminated, the Nazi's would not stop. Another "them" would have been identified and systematically slaughtered, erased from the face of the earth. 

As the world slowly wore away at my naivety, i learned of all the ways society had failed at that mission. Rwanda, Darfur, the Congo, Bosnia, Cambodia, Bangladesh, Russia/USSR, China, Rohingya, Yemen, Yazidi, Gaza. We never cared, we forgot right away.

I don't know when, but I feel it was recently -- perhaps spurred on by the October 7th attacks -- the narrative shifted from Never Again, to Never let this happen Again to the Jews... but you know [bleep] everyone else. 

I am disgusted at the comments made by the United States and Israel. I am disgusted at republicans (to the very last supporter). I am disgusted by The New York Times and the Washington Post, CNN and CBS, The billionaires and the "Christians," and especially the Jews. 

The 1960s saw Jews the country over fighting for the civil rights of their fellow Americans. Never Again meant something. And that fell apart on the shores of the Mediterranean... how sad. 

We have forgotten. 

Every minute that passes is a death knell against the right. How can we respect any republican who hasn't stood up against the American Gestapo. They are complicit. Every one. all of them. 

If you have an R next to your name from this moment forward, you are a Nazi. Nothing can be done to redeem yourself if you still haven't stood up to republicans. your silence is being complicit. 

Israel is a Shonda. How dare you say never forget while occupying gaza, minneapolis, chicago, la, the west bank... democracy. 

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