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Yes, absolutely unfair. To cherry-pick select ignominies from WWII while ignoring the larger efforts in Germany to recognize the horrors committed by the Nazi
by saryant 11y ago
Yes, absolutely unfair. To cherry-pick select ignominies from WWII while ignoring the larger efforts in Germany to recognize the horrors committed by the Nazi regime is intellectually dishonest.
WWII was a tragedy. You're pissed and your country is going through hell. We get that. But repeatedly bringing this up is going to accomplish precisely nothing.
I'm not Greek, I'm not German. My only connection to any of that atrocity is the tales my grandfather told me about his service in the war. But after seven decades you have to forgive and move on. Scratching that wound isn't going to help anyone (just look at the howls across Asia every time the Japanese prime minister visits the Yasukuni shrine).
- elorant 11y agoWWII was a tragedy. You're pissed and your country is going through hell. We get that. But repeatedly bringing this up is going to accomplish precisely nothing. I beg to differ. I think that “repeatedly bringing this up” is going to accomplish something. Because for the last fifty years every time we brought this issue up everyone was telling us it’s not the right time. Well you know what, we’re sick of waiting. At the very least they should pay us the loan Hitler took by force from our central bank. That’s not war reparations, it’s a fucking state loan.
- sorincos 11y agoIt would be about time Greece pays back what Alexandre the Great robbed from all his neighbours! We waited long enough, I say.
- elorant 11y agoI find it interest that in the last few days many of the negative comments about Greece come from accounts with very low karma. Are you guys on a crusade of ridicule or something?