Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for January 27, 2002
January 26, 2002
January 28, 2002
Transcript:
Danae: I've gotta tell ya, mister...that's an awfully boring tattoo on your arm. It's just a bunch of numbers. Man: Well, I was about your age when I got it, and kept it as a reminder. Danae: Oh...a reminder of happier days? Man: No..of a time when the world went mad. "Imagine yourself in a land where your countrymen followed the voice of political extremists who didn't like your religion. Imagine having everything taken from you, your entire family sent to a concentration camp as slave laborers, then systematically murdered. In this place, they even take your name and replace it with a number tattooed on your arm. It was called the Holocaust, when millions of people perished just because of their faith..." Danae: So you kept it to remind yourself about the dangers of political extremism? Man: No, my dear. To remind you.
My parents took me to one of the death camps when I was a teenager. The whole exhibition there struck me as having one message:
“It was not Nazis who did this, or demons or monsters or evil people. It was people. People exactly like you. You did this. Remember that, and don’t do it again.”
That was over 4 decades ago, and I have not seen anything of humanity that says that claim was false. Right down to the current day comments on the cartoons, with people calling for genocide.