Diggles, if someone made a guild called "The Rape of Nanking" I would be offended even if I didn't know anyone was killed in The Rape of Nanking.
People don't need to be victims of a genocide in order to empathize with and be sensitive to the people who did.
My neighbor and close friend is a holocaust survivor. She was sent to a concentration camp and separated from her parents and siblings. During a physical, the doctor explained that he could help her escape if she could play dead. She agreed to the plan. Nazi soldiers stripped her and dumped her into a pit of corpses outside of the camp. She was nine. When the soldiers left, she climbed out and ran, stark-naked, into the forest. She was taken in by compassionate strangers. None of her immediate family survived the camps. She's one of the sweetest, funniest people I know.
Many of my friends had family die in the holocaust, and some of my family died fighting the Nazis.
How do you people live with yourselves?
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