So this morning I woke up to something so disturbing it makes it hard to breathe. Someone in the RPC decides it’s funny to make a Hitler blog and play like they are him and suddenly my safe haven is a little less safe. I have friends, people who are very dear to me, and followers that are Jewish. This effects them in ways that make my heart hurt for them and makes me wish I could hug them all.
But it effects me personally as well. I’m not Jewish, so I can’t understand that degree of terror, but I am the great niece of two wonderful German people who risked their lives to help their Jewish neighbors and who ended up inside a camp alongside them. I am the great granddaughter of a man who lost his life fighting against a regime that tried to take his neighbors and friends and his wife who survived to bring their five children to America. From the time I was old enough to understand (Second grade) I have been taught about the evil of one man and how easy it is for people to blindly follow someone who promises them everything in a time when they have nothing.
THIS ISN’T OKAY. You are preying on the fears and nightmares of generations. Because you haven’t had to live a life knowing the intimate details, or feeling the shame and the pain that someone who is Jewish or a German Anti-Nazi family has to know you think it’s just a game, just a joke. IT ISN’T.
YOU ARE MESSING WITH THE WELL-BEING AND MENTAL HEALTH OF AN ENTIRE GROUP OF PEOPLE. The RPC is our safe haven, it’s where we go to just be ourselves. Now it’s becoming a place of fear and our little spot of okay in a world full of fucked up just became tainted. You, whoever you are, are an asshole.