Reply #39: I find your determination to try and force my opinions into your own mold quite interesting also [View All]

[MadHound]

I'm not trying to belittle the Holocaust, more like I'm trying to figure out why the Nazi Holocaust is the only one we memorialize.

As far the Japanese go, yes, their medical experiments were of the same, if not greater magnitude as the Nazi's medical experiments. Go read your history and find out for yourself. The scary thing is that the US sucked down all that medical information, all those experiments that we couldn't ethically perform, and then used the information ourselves.

As far as the Native Americans go, while the killing process itself wasn't "mechanical" (though I fail to see how that contributes to the horror), it was just as deliberate. Hell, we deliberately sent the Indians smallpox blankets which, within ten years (less time than what the Holocaust took) reduced the population of the Plains Indians from twenty five million to six million. Nineteen million people dead, at our hands, in a deliberate act of genocide. Then we followed up by virtually wiping out the buffalo in order to starve the rest of the Native Americans to death. Which is worse, death by bioterrorism and hunger, or death in the camps? I find both abhorrent, yet only one is memorialized.

What I'm trying to get across here is that it's only polite and politic to memorialize one particular Holocaust. We can't memorialize the Holocaust that we inflicted on the Native Americans, after all, we're America, that shining city on a hill and ugliness such as a massive genocide only interferes with our national myths. That I get. But other genocides, why are they covered up and forgotten?