A Suggestion for Justice
Berlin memorial to holocaust vandalized already
I suggest that the Germans build a microcosmic version of the worst concentration camp bunkhouses, diet and labor regime, and sentence perpetrators of these hate crimes to a sufficiently long stint that they get the message. Well, you get my point anyway.
Perhaps an alternative memorial can be built which is specifically designed to showcase the residual anti-semetism that exists. Don't erase the swastikas and insults: leave them in place, and point them out through interpretative signage. The message: it still exists within society - contain it.
BERLIN - Within hours of the opening of Germany’s national Holocaust memorial to the public, a vandal scratched a swastika into one of the 2,711 gray slabs, a spokesman for the memorial said Friday.
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I suggest that the Germans build a microcosmic version of the worst concentration camp bunkhouses, diet and labor regime, and sentence perpetrators of these hate crimes to a sufficiently long stint that they get the message. Well, you get my point anyway.
Perhaps an alternative memorial can be built which is specifically designed to showcase the residual anti-semetism that exists. Don't erase the swastikas and insults: leave them in place, and point them out through interpretative signage. The message: it still exists within society - contain it.
posted by SleepsOnGrates at 2:40 PM
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