Why do Holoucast Deniers say " the holocaust wasn't so bad"?
Why do whites say " It was better to be a slave and we civilized you?"
Why did France downplay its role with the Rwanda Genocide?
Why did Whites downplay the slaughter of native americans?
Why do Al-Qaida think what they are doing is justified?
Why did Japan try to downplay the Rape of Nanking seem like nothing, like it was the women's fault for being raped and stuff?
My question is WHY DO PEOPLE DOWNPLAY GENOCIDES? It's like putting a tissue over a gunshot and SAYING IT HEALED.
2007-01-25 16:39:15 · 6 answers · asked by lisa b 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
and then slavery and then the black holocaust in the U.S.
They aren't on the receiving end, and they don't want to understand that mentality. They would rather it be forgotten than to feel guilt. And mostly, they lack a soul.
2007-01-25 16:46:54 · answer #1 · answered by ♥michele♥ 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
This is an extremely difficult question. I think this denial of what we really do to each other happens for a variety of reasons.
One, when the genocide is far away geographically or in time, it is easy to ignore because it is not happening to us or those closest to us.
Secondly I believe genocide and physical violence is a manefestation of the mental and spiritual sickness of all humanity.
This sickness is manefest in several different ways.
One form of this sickness is verbal violence. If you see the verbal violence that some people inflict on those closest to them, children, spouses, people that are a part of their "inner-circle", violence to "the other" is easy to justify.
If you are entitled to freely abuse those closest to you, how much more can you inflict on those who are "other"; those who can be easily objectified and de-humanized. So this is why we as humans can be so cruel to each other, it is because we are sick, from the core outwards.
But what of those who are kind of their families? Why do they not stand in the gap and cry out when genocide occurs? I think much of this is because also because of another form of sickness, the sickness of separateness and the illusion of powerlessness.
If we as humans could really feel with every breath how powerful we really are, and how profoundly we are connected to each other we would not tollerate the violence we do now. It is because we believe we cannot change things, and that as long as it is happening to "those people" we will be okay. We do not feel that it is happening to us, when it really is. What happens to one person happens to all of us.
We also feel powerless because of the daily grind of our own lives and own struggles. Because many of us have failed to grasp our power in our own personal lives, we feel even more powerless when we hear of genocide, and so we do nothing. This feeling of powerlessness is false and is part of our sickness.
We as humans are profoundly powerful, and we must continue to seek to embrace our power, so that we take responsibility in our personal lives. As we grow in maturity we can begin to fight against the evils of the world, and stop the insane sickness that causes us to downplay the true horror of violence on all levels.
2007-01-25 17:10:10 · answer #2 · answered by mopo28 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nobody wants to admit their complicity in mass murder - so of course anybody who's an apologist for a huge atrocity is going to downplay it. Of course, murder is murder and denying it is, as you said "like putting a tissue over a gunshot and SAYING IT HEALED."
2007-01-25 16:59:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
People can not accept responsible for thier actions, nor can they learn from the mistakes of the past.
Admitting they are wrong is apparently one of the hardest things some of these people can do. Which is truly a pity as it prohibits from furthering ones intellect and society as a whole.
If it didn't happen to them, then it must not have been so bad.
2007-01-25 16:47:59 · answer #4 · answered by Vantado 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
because they are indifferent to the harm done by the millions is why
hay slavery is the one i cannot believe so many were indifferent too!
how they just took the northern continent is amazing but not for long this is going to be a terrible price these ones must pay soon very soon!
2007-01-25 16:59:54 · answer #5 · answered by wise 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
like Saddam killing thousands in Iraq
Ethnic cleansing in Ireland in 1845 by the British during the famine...
Pol Pot in Cambodia .........ya the list goes on..!!!!!!!!!
2007-01-25 16:57:13 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋