by crfernald » Sat Feb 25, 2012 5:00 am
If I used crusader imagery you likely wouldn't oppose it despite their ruthless slaughter of civilians and unchecked barbarism, same with the mongol hoard. The fact is that more people suffered under the conquest of Genghis Khan than in the holocaust, and for a longer time, but I could use mongol imagery just fine. The reason is the same reason that you care more about the plight of tigers facing extinction in the wild than a rare beetle. Stop picking and choosing what is ok and what is not ok to use for imagery. Violence is fucking violence, it doesn't matter who the aggressor is or who the victim is.
I can go on and on, if I were crf the impaler that would be fine, but I guess starvation in a camp is worse than being impaled while still alive in a forest of other people being impaled alive.
Where the fuck do you get off taking the moral high ground in this argument? If anything your overbearing concern for the holocaust is worse than anyone seeking to reference it. Has it crossed your mind that more, about twice as many, young men died in the first world war than people of all ages and genders in German prison camps? What about the fact that Russian labor camp conditions were even more appalling, lacking even bunk buildings that were provided by Germans? I'm guessing that a picture of Kaiser Wilhelm would be acceptable? What about the immense suffering brought upon the German people by the allies, forget about Dresden? Is it ok to have a picture of Harry Truman, the only man to ever use nuclear weapons in anger, and against civilians at that?
Oh, but I guess it's different because the nine or more million young men that died in the first world war didn't have the money or political influence in their families to build museums all over the world and run yearly ad campaigns in remembrance of their loss. I guess it's different because the Persian peasants who were raped and murdered by the Mongols for their meager belongings didn't give us Albert Einstein or Jerry Seinfeld. I guess it's different because the Japanese school children vaporized in Hiroshima would've been an obstacle to the US invading Japan. Grow up.
