Revisionist history, to avoid offense?

[jugglergeek]

WTF? Got this today, and since I don't believe in sending out chainletters, I'm posting it here, and a Snopes link for some verification.

Recently this week, the UK removed The Holocaust from

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[darkgaze2002]

Can anyone really do that? I mean, why on earth can ONE group of people say something completely contradictory to all evidence and have the majority of people bow down to not offend? that is utter bs. I had a neighboor down the street from me who lived in the camps-even had the tatoo to prove it. You can't just ignore something that affected millions of people. You can say the sky isn't blue, but by it being there, it is. argh.. stupid.. people.. make .. me... mad!!!

[kishuku]

Yeah...

There seems to be a lot of history erasing going on recently? Is it some kind of fashion trend?

Japanese Prime Minister recently said that none of the 'comfort women' during WWII were forced into it and anyone who said they were are liars.

Taiwan's got this issue and wants to change the Chiang Kai Shek Memorial to something like 'People's Memorial' because they are so focused on the bad evil nasty things he did to the local Taiwanese people (not saying he didn't, cuz he did) and have completely forgotten that if he hadn't been here Taiwan would be part of China and not be the economic powerhouse of Asia it used to be.