I don't know what to make of this Reuters Headline -- Bush Tours Auschwitz, Says 'Evil' Must Be Resisted -- Quotation Marks around ‘evil’? Does that mean even Auschwitz is only allegedly evil when Bush uses the term? Shamefully, the Holocaust wasn't a wholly unique event in the 20th century. Europe could have stopped Hitler in the 1930s if they had the guts. That lesson should have led us to stop other horrors, but it didn't.
Anytime a government boot is on the face of a peaceful citizen, evil exists. Just because we ignored the horrors in Africa during the 1990s, Pol Pot, Idi Amin, Fidel Castro and Joseph Stalin, doesn't mean that they were any less evil. You can call such a term is simplistic and say it lacks nuance, but how much nuance do you think the persecuted feel as they are being persecuted?
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