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From: Matt Love <matt.mattlove1@gmail.com>
Date: May 11, 2005 10:02 PM
Subject: Re: [Bizarro_UltraZine] Re: 9-foot bronze statue of BEWITCHED
Samantha causes controversy...
To: Bizarro_UltraZine@yahoogroups.com
The problem is that they haven't reacted enough. It' is true that you
can find witch related souvenirs and shops in Salem, that is part of
the problem. I am fully in favor of the people that would like to make
amends for what happened in Salem in the past, and recognize they
haven't fully gotten there yet. It's true that it's 400 years in the
past - it makes it a good place to start, because it took the catholic
church 500 years to apologize to Galileo, it took the people of York
800 years to honor the Jews that were slaughtered there in their
witchhunt. So it would be a good idea to close the gap, maybe if they
start trying to do the right thing in Salem, we can expect that in a
couple of hundred years or so, the US will apologize for using
biological weapons against Cuba, or mining the harbors in Nicaragua.
I am a student of witchhunts. And as you know, I find the persecution
of innocent people to be one of the most horrific things imaginable.
of course, we always like to believe that anybody who is murdered by
the state deserves it. And if it happens to us, and nobody sticks up
for us, well, we're dead, so tough luck, people will think we deserved
it to, so that's just the way it goes.
I thought of an analogy I like better than yours - a fashion show at
Dachau, with all the heroin thin models wearing prison camp uniforms
marching gaily off to the showers. Not trivializing their suffering
at all.
On 5/11/05, tim_tt2 <tim_tt2@yahoo.com> wrote:
> It sounds to me that people are over reacting...sure bad things
> happened to innocent people during the witch hunts, but like the guy
> said...it's documented in museums and though people shouldn't trivilize
> what happened...I bet if you go to Salem, you'll find a lot of witch
> related souveniers and shops.
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> It's like erecting an Alien statue in Roswell,NM
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