This is going to make you feel as uncomfortable as it makes me feel to write it, so by all means take you weak ass back to TMZ.COM so you can read about the crazy shit Britney has done today.
Since the beginning of time, groups of people have done horrible things to other groups of people. Often times for little to no reason or for very stupid ones.
In Second Life, there are several areas to devoted to such things. Some are well done, some fall in the middle, and some well….aren't so much telling a story as exploiting others. I'm not so much going to let you decide which is which (get your own damn blog genius) so sit down and take it in.
First up is the Palestine Holocaust Memorial. An area which I am simply unable to show you any close up pictures of because a decision was made by the sim owner that their point was best made with pictures of children. Dead children, children with horrific wounds, children burnt to a crisp, children in body bags, children bleeding, and well – you don't need to hear more – just imagine 100 or so pictures showing the most horrific things happening to children and someone plastering an entire area with them. I'm not saying this shit isn't going down just like I'm not saying kids in Israel eating ice cream haven't been blown to bits by suicide bombers – just that I never seem to see those pictures. I get the point – I really do, but what they are doing honestly smells more like exploitation that a memorial. I'm not saying my view on this is right because to be honest I've seen a lot of things in my life and the army that things that are supposed to tug at my heart just don't. I often feel that gives me objectivity but on some level I know it makes me cold.
Next is the GLBT Holocaust Memorial. A very classy small area that is tasteful, respectful, and speaks of the victims without hitting you over the head. Props to the folks behind this.
Then I went to the US Holocaust Museum which is the most tasteful and still the most powerful of all the places I visited. I do regret however that a noob felt it fine to be disrespectful by showing up half naked and ignoring my repeated requests to explain himself. Look people, if you want to dress like an asshole, go to some asshole nude beach. Don't disrespect the memory of the dead. I am toying with the morality of printing this shittwits name (give me some time to think on it). Asshole aside, this is a powerful place. You walk the streets of a town just cleared by the Nazis. You see the empty classrooms with chairs turned over and you can't help by think of the terrified children taken away by brutal thugs. It made me sad yet angry (but the noob had fled and assaulting him was now out of the question).
Last stop (for tonight) was the Jewish holocaust Museum which started out so well. There was a sign that shows the Jews weren't the only victims of the Nazi bastards. It could of been you, it could of been me (it would been given my inability to keep my opinion to myself). I really wish it stopped there, but it didn't. I got the message. I felt it and really got it. But it didn't. There is an exhibit where you get off the train at the camp to see Nazi guards and dogs. I wish it stopped there, but it didn't. There was a door. It was the chamber. I wish it stopped there, but it didn't. You could go in. I wish it stopped it there, but it didn't. I wish I didn't go in. I wish I didn't see what those going in must of seen. The showers. The terror they had to have felt in those moments. Maybe we need to see this so it doesn't happen again. I don't know. I just know I don't want to see it again.
So there you go, a trip down the lane of how easily we can turn into animals and treat others as less than human to justify our hate and feed our animal urges never realizing that when you place someone else below the level of human to do horrible shit to them you are actually placing yourself below the level of human.
Update: It's like 3:00am but I got an email and I'm not going to respond to it since you are pissing me off and I'm going to say something I won't regret yet will have to pretend I do. For the record, I did in fact attempt to find a sim dedicated to the injustice of slavery. Would you like to know what I found typing that word into the SL viewer search window? I found out SL is full of sick people who need help. Well shit, I knew that, but I guess I found out I will need some help finding a site that explores the topic in way that it deserves as opposed to you sick ass people who I would go off were an ass kicking not something you found to be a turn on.
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