Midnight@slrpnk.net to News@lemmy.world · 28 days agoGerman town bans stumbling stone memorials to Nazi victimswww.bbc.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square49linkfedilinkarrow-up1220
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minus-squareMrkawfee@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up26·27 days agoIts a bit awkward to commemorate a genocide that your country did while in the process of participating in another genocide. Its like holding AA meetings in the pub.
minus-squaremcv@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up17·27 days agoI don’t think banning the commemoration is the right way to resolve that contradiction, though.
minus-squareSidyctism II.@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up13·26 days agoThe Stolpersteine arent placed by the state, its just a single guy. No idea what he thinks about palestine
minus-squareouRKaoS@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up7·27 days agoAn AA meeting in a pub is almost good idea adjacent, though. If you can be around alcohol and other people drinking it and still not drink it’d be a hell of a confidence booster. …until the “maybe just one” thoughts win out.
minus-squareMrkawfee@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·26 days agoTrue the feeling of smug superiority would be sublime.
Its a bit awkward to commemorate a genocide that your country did while in the process of participating in another genocide.
Its like holding AA meetings in the pub.
I don’t think banning the commemoration is the right way to resolve that contradiction, though.
The Stolpersteine arent placed by the state, its just a single guy. No idea what he thinks about palestine
An AA meeting in a pub is almost good idea adjacent, though. If you can be around alcohol and other people drinking it and still not drink it’d be a hell of a confidence booster.
…until the “maybe just one” thoughts win out.
True the feeling of smug superiority would be sublime.