3409...The Holocaust Is The Elvis Of Sh*tty Things

Elvis Presley may not be the greatest singer of all time but he is The King. The one and only.

The Holocaust may not be the biggest atrocity/genocide of all time but it is The King of atrocities. The one and only.

I get it, the Ukranian famine, Armenian massacres, repeated crap done to the Poles, were bad, may be even more bad than the Holocaust. But the Holocaust is the one that pops, the one that resonates. "George Shirinian, an Armenian-Canadian scholar and executive director of the International Institute for Human Rights and Genocide Studies, agrees the Holocaust, as 'the best-known and best-documented genocide, is central to any study of genocide.'"

What brings me to this sad subject is James Adams' article in the Globe Review this day. He leads with "Opposition appears to be intensifying to plans to dedicate a specific "zone" to the Holocaust in the new Canadian Museum for Human Rights, while the museum devotes another, single gallery to covering what could be at least 50 other mass atrocities. Both the Ukrainian Canadian Congress and the Canadian Polish Congress are urging the museum, under construction in Winnipeg and scheduled to open early in 2013, to reconsider what CPC president Teresa Berezowski calls 'an inequitable display of what has happened in the world that has gone against human rights.'"

The Holocaust is the, forgive the friv'lous wording, the Elvis of atrocities. It is what pops, it is what brings them in the doors.

WFDS