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Tourists horrified by showers at Auschwitz entrance
Museum defends decision to keep visitors cool during summer despite complaints that sprinklers resemble Nazi gas chambers.
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People are TOO sensitive these days. This is absurd.
For the record, I completely agree with that sentiment. That seems a little over the top.
That being said. If there was one place on earth where people might be just a little bit sensitive, wouldn't Auschwitz be the place? To me, 11 million is a number. It's a huge number, but it's still a number. To countless millions of people across the world, it's their mom, their dad, their sisters, brothers, uncles, their identity.
Everything they ever loved crawled into gas chamber and were forklifted like cord wood into crematoriums and turned into dust. Towns and villages turned into ghost towns. I can't imagine the horror. I've seen the photos and the movies and can only dimly get a feel for what they went through.
In any case, the museum defended itself well. They're only out there to keep people comfortable on 100F days. It sure beats heat stroke.
I agree in general... However, when you're talking about Israeli who are either families of survivors or survivors themselves, I think they're entitled to being overly sensitive for as long as they want.
Maybe- (and I'm probably going to catch a lot of flak for this) but I'd also think these very same people would be real sensitive about committing similar atrocities themselves. Then I'd ask a Palestinian how they feel about Israeli entitlement.
I can't say I'm on either side of that fence- but I do know right from wrong. Let me digress before I get off topic.
That's a separate, though very valid issue. I also find it appalling to see how little many in the Israeli leadership lack the basic empathy to realize that what they're doing is no more right than what they suffered.
That being said, a lot of Israeli have spoken up about this, and on this precise point. Western media is the one that presents the issue in a very one-sided way, because Israeli press is actually pretty free and open on the issue. I also think a lot of young Israeli are uncomfortable with the situation, though I wouldn't presume to talk for them.