4. I don't blame you at all for your aversion to this (hell, I had no idea until this secret came in that this kind of thing even existed. Call me sheltered ^^;), I don't blame any Jewish person (or anyone at all, really) for not wanting to touch it with a thirty nine and a half foot pole. But I do feel the need to play devil's advocate for this. In three pages of comments, not one person has, so the task falls to me.
Get your flames ready, everyone!
Nazi/Jew I could see being done, if it was done carefully. I'm not saying people would have to like it, I'm not saying it would be done just for the "edginess" factor which I saw mentioned earlier. Be it het or slash, I really could see it being done. I'm not going to go into specifics since I'm no historian, I just boast a general knowledge of what happened during that time period, so bear with me.
The long and short of it is this: Not every member of the Nazi party was a willing participant. Sure, there were the hardcore Heil Hitler types that characterize the Germans of the day, but then there were those who were Nazis in name only. Perhaps to save themselves from a fate worse than death. Perhaps they didn't want to be a voice of dissent in a time when that meant subjecting yourself to the whims of madmen with little hope of survival. People do what they must in order to stay alive. Sometimes it means doing some pretty unsavory things (such as cannibalism a la the Donner party), sometimes it means subscribing to ideals that you have no interest in having a part of.
Yes, I get that you're probably talking about Nazi/Jew where the Nazi is a hardcore Hitler lover. But I just wanted to point out that there can be exceptions to everything.
I don't know, I guess to me it's like Nazi/Jew is like American/person of Japanese descent in that same era. Yes, I know that there are differences, and they're vast, but the idea is sort of the same. Captor/captive. Oppressor/oppressed.
Doesn't make it right. Doesn't make it any less weird for those personally affected. But something to think about.
FLAME ON. Just remember, personal attacks mean I mock you and freeze the thread. I HAVE MOD POWER.
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Get your flames ready, everyone!
Nazi/Jew I could see being done, if it was done carefully. I'm not saying people would have to like it, I'm not saying it would be done just for the "edginess" factor which I saw mentioned earlier. Be it het or slash, I really could see it being done. I'm not going to go into specifics since I'm no historian, I just boast a general knowledge of what happened during that time period, so bear with me.
The long and short of it is this: Not every member of the Nazi party was a willing participant. Sure, there were the hardcore Heil Hitler types that characterize the Germans of the day, but then there were those who were Nazis in name only. Perhaps to save themselves from a fate worse than death. Perhaps they didn't want to be a voice of dissent in a time when that meant subjecting yourself to the whims of madmen with little hope of survival. People do what they must in order to stay alive. Sometimes it means doing some pretty unsavory things (such as cannibalism a la the Donner party), sometimes it means subscribing to ideals that you have no interest in having a part of.
Yes, I get that you're probably talking about Nazi/Jew where the Nazi is a hardcore Hitler lover. But I just wanted to point out that there can be exceptions to everything.
I don't know, I guess to me it's like Nazi/Jew is like American/person of Japanese descent in that same era. Yes, I know that there are differences, and they're vast, but the idea is sort of the same. Captor/captive. Oppressor/oppressed.
Doesn't make it right. Doesn't make it any less weird for those personally affected. But something to think about.
FLAME ON. Just remember, personal attacks mean I mock you and freeze the thread. I HAVE MOD POWER.