Mtnskydancer t1_jbop261 wrote
Reply to comment by ToxicBanana69 in New York landlord becomes legal guardian of 93-year-old Holocaust survivor: 'She had no one else' by Imguran
Why is that?
Is it how it’s taught, or not, in school? Do you live in an area with few Jews? (That you can tell, many of us aren’t stereotypical in looks)
ToxicBanana69 t1_jbopmbc wrote
No reason other than it was such a horrific time period, so I sometimes just think of it as something that happened a long time ago, if that makes sense.
HaloGuy381 t1_jbpcgor wrote
If you’d like a reminder of how little time has passed: I’m 25. My father was the first of his line born in the US back in 1969 to someone who immigrated to the US after enduring the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.
The Holocaust was not so long ago. That we seem to have so many eager to repeat that horrific atrocity, whether toward Jews or another minority scapegoat, is deeply disturbing.
Mtnskydancer t1_jbot7iq wrote
Sort of.
Horrific is always happening, though.
ToxicBanana69 t1_jbovj2l wrote
Oh yeah, for sure. But it’s easier for me to look at current events as…well, “current”. But things that happened in the past always seem much more distant to me than they actually are. Take Princess Diana’s death, for example. I usually, subconsciously think of her death as happening long ago, like the 60’s or 70’s or something, when the reality is she died less than a year before I was born.
Past events just mess with my sense of time, I guess
Mtnskydancer t1_jboxj30 wrote
I was in university then. Somehow I got it in my head that she and Mother Theresa died the same day. Nope.
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