…nah, I’m good thanks. I won’t put my anger away just because it makes other people feel more comfortable about themselves. I won’t break the rules of course. And I’m still not clear on what rule I broke here that got me straight to a thread-ban without even as much as a mod-note.
But I’m not ever going to stop being angry about the casual, dismissive way the genocide of indigenous peoples are being treated on these boards. It’s no longer about what any one poster may have said any more. The moderators have straight up said that these sorts of statements (in regard to indigenous people) are not in any way against the rules here. I don’t think that’s right.
So I shouldn’t get angry when someone claims that the people who stole thousands of children and were responsible for hundreds, if not thousands of deaths “probably wept daily over the plight of the children”. Josef Mengele was just doing science, he wanted the best for the children in the camps. He probably wept daily over the plight of the children under his care. That isn’t offensive at all. That doesn’t go against every historical record that we have. Gotcha.
Because having a “civil” conversation is more important than pointing out that this person is defending genocide. As @Northern_Piper said:
The thread is so much more interesting now, much more than they could have hoped for, now that people can post openly sympathetic things about those responsible for stealing children, and escape moderation because they did so politely.