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Yeah, so, there were asshats right? And bruised feelings all around? Good, that means people are actually being honest instead of letting it boil up. I’d rather see a knock-down drag-out argument instead of it being kept under wraps until someone goes batshit and goes really off the handle.
But yeah, bruised feelings also over here too, but for a reason that’s Yanno, not at all similar to other forms of oppression, because I never got threatened or anything because of my lack of religion before. Right.
And I do understand where she’s coming from because, hey, it’s the fucking Holocaust; enough is said right there. That’s just kind of a bar that you can’t go over and nobody really wants to raise. But thinking about that does raise the question, just how do we tabulate one horrible act of oppression from another?
If we go with sheer numbers, the winner goes to Stalin with 23-24 million during his time. If we go with the level of atrocity committed… well, there’s a big tie there; with big names like china, to the inquisition, to most of the medieval torturers, to Joseph “how fucking evil can you get?” Mengele (who I’m leaning toward as the winner of this unique “honor”).
And if we go with the endurance record, Judaism is once again in the high ranks, right below sodomites and women.
So how do we put one black stain of humanity higher on the list? Do we mentally put all three categories together and average the total on it? Because if we did I’d understand that and be glad that’s the case (as much as one can be about such a thing); instead of the cynical side of me saying one thing:
Is it mostly in part to the publicity the atrocity gets?
Would you have ever have heard of the cleansing in Africa if “Hotel Rwanda” hadn’t been made? What about all the Vietnam films? And even though it’s heavily studied, how many people on the street remember the Armenian Genocide that occurred? On that note, can you name more then a few movies about the subject that have been commercially released to the theaters in the past few decades.
So why is it now that we get the major movies about the horrors of what happened in Afghanistan and Iraq before and after the war started? Because one timeline of massacres is considered topical and thus lucrative? Did all the other documentaries and movies just have bad script writers?
Does that sit well in your stomach? It doesn’t for me either. I don’t like the idea that some group of panelists or a movie company can decide what aspects of our history are fit to be told. I especially don’t like the idea that an event of unfathomable suffering could be called “chic” and funded while another goes off into a corner and gets ignored. Yeah, I am asking movie companies to throw money down a well and fund movies that won’t be all that popular, but at least people will know about the events.
But besides that, (and the feeling that I’ve had this rant before, very déjà vu) I’ve gone off track here, so let me end this post by yelling “Godwin Godwin Godwin” so we can all agree that I’ve lost this argument.
But yeah, bruised feelings also over here too, but for a reason that’s Yanno, not at all similar to other forms of oppression, because I never got threatened or anything because of my lack of religion before. Right.
And I do understand where she’s coming from because, hey, it’s the fucking Holocaust; enough is said right there. That’s just kind of a bar that you can’t go over and nobody really wants to raise. But thinking about that does raise the question, just how do we tabulate one horrible act of oppression from another?
If we go with sheer numbers, the winner goes to Stalin with 23-24 million during his time. If we go with the level of atrocity committed… well, there’s a big tie there; with big names like china, to the inquisition, to most of the medieval torturers, to Joseph “how fucking evil can you get?” Mengele (who I’m leaning toward as the winner of this unique “honor”).
And if we go with the endurance record, Judaism is once again in the high ranks, right below sodomites and women.
So how do we put one black stain of humanity higher on the list? Do we mentally put all three categories together and average the total on it? Because if we did I’d understand that and be glad that’s the case (as much as one can be about such a thing); instead of the cynical side of me saying one thing:
Is it mostly in part to the publicity the atrocity gets?
Would you have ever have heard of the cleansing in Africa if “Hotel Rwanda” hadn’t been made? What about all the Vietnam films? And even though it’s heavily studied, how many people on the street remember the Armenian Genocide that occurred? On that note, can you name more then a few movies about the subject that have been commercially released to the theaters in the past few decades.
So why is it now that we get the major movies about the horrors of what happened in Afghanistan and Iraq before and after the war started? Because one timeline of massacres is considered topical and thus lucrative? Did all the other documentaries and movies just have bad script writers?
Does that sit well in your stomach? It doesn’t for me either. I don’t like the idea that some group of panelists or a movie company can decide what aspects of our history are fit to be told. I especially don’t like the idea that an event of unfathomable suffering could be called “chic” and funded while another goes off into a corner and gets ignored. Yeah, I am asking movie companies to throw money down a well and fund movies that won’t be all that popular, but at least people will know about the events.
But besides that, (and the feeling that I’ve had this rant before, very déjà vu) I’ve gone off track here, so let me end this post by yelling “Godwin Godwin Godwin” so we can all agree that I’ve lost this argument.
