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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Today's CNN poll asked, "Could the Holocaust happen again?"
Here are the results so far:
Yes 72% 78891 votes
No 28% 30375 votes
Total: 109266 votes
Are they asking whether "the Holocaust," as in the genocide of Jews, could happen again, or are they asking if something like the Holocaust with another race (because then the question should be, "Is a genocide on the scale of the Holocaust possible today?") could happen again?"
If it's the former, I don't think it's possible. If they meant the latter, I think it is.
Anyone else?
TM
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It could happen to Jews again- it certainly could happen to other peoples and in fact has. The most dangerous thing would be to think it couldn't happen again.
Like the anti-semetic (or anti-Islam) movements in Europe- if one thinks "It's just a reaction to Israel, but we as a society could never get to what the Nazis did," you are a big step in the direction of starting another.
